Lee's Summit Equestrian

08/12/2024

Looking for referrals for dog sitter in my home (Lee’s Summit).

08/03/2024

This drylot is immediately adjacent to the indoor arena. Large shelter. We feed and check water twice daily. $550

05/31/2024

My pansies are so happy, I can’t bear to pull them out just yet.

03/05/2024

This is not a 💩 job….the horses are beautiful, the air is fresh and clean, and once I wash my hands, I can have dessert today if I want.

02/28/2024

We brought the hoses in last night. Barn Manager SweetieMouse is not sure what’s going on here but is sitting in the middle just in case.

02/26/2024

We have availability in our pasture. Two shelters. Water troughs checked daily, and I like them CLEAN. $375

02/25/2024

Help wanted. Saturdays and Sundays. 2 hrs/day

Feed, water, pick paddocks, clean stalls. $15/hr W-2

02/21/2024

A beautiful February day.

02/13/2024

We’ve got a new barn dress code.

02/11/2024

Two horse dry lot, right next to the barn and parking lot.

02/08/2024

We have a 2 horse dry lot coming available March 1

01/21/2024

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.

There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.

You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.

Well, that about sums it up, folks!” - unknown author

01/09/2024

The trees are beautiful in the snow.

01/09/2024

It’s a winter wonderland.

12/06/2023

10/30/2023

Tonya Dean Photography is offering a special session at Lee's Summit Equestrian this Sunday November 5!

10/23/2023

10/04/2023

What a beautiful day.

10/02/2023

Such a gracious guest at our Bunkhouse Airbnb. Nathan, we’re glad you enjoyed your stay.

10/01/2023

The fringe benefits of fence repair.

09/28/2023

The sound of horse

09/27/2023

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Check out Grace Petty's video.

09/18/2023

The garden is enjoying this cooler weather, too!

09/18/2023

Lots of geese on the pond this beautiful morning!

08/18/2023

Day 1 of the barn fitness challenge. Triceps.

08/17/2023

Lovely view from the indoor arena.