Timber Creek Stables

02/25/2025

Nothing like working young horses during a crazy wind storm. Even some of the older are spooky today. Tomorrow, a beautiful 60 degree day! I’m so ready!!

02/18/2025

Hello sunshine and 50 degrees! Horses and humans are happily sweating instead of freezing today! Now if it will just stay this way. Enjoy the nice weather today all!

02/18/2025

💝Riding is ageless 💝

02/16/2025

Happy Saturday night! Here’s to a good rest of the weekend after great rides by all today. Excited for a new week ahead next week!!

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day❣️❣️
Don’t forget your four legged Valentines today❣️🦄

02/08/2025

Love this 💖

Your horse needs a 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡, not just a trainer.

There’s 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 to horsemanship than just teaching cues and movements.

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 involves getting a horse to do something 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲—teaching movements, refining responses, and conditioning their body.

𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 is all about building 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟. It’s about exhibiting leadership and communication to build confidence, trust and understanding.

When a horse faces an unfamiliar situation, they will feel insecure. They’ll look to you for reassurance. That’s where 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠—not just training—makes all the difference.

It’s not just about executing the right steps.
It’s about giving them the confidence to 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 through pressure, not just react to it.

A great trainer can make a horse capable.
A great coach makes them 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭.

02/07/2025

Snow Log Day 7 🥶
Luckily no new snow last night or this morning 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
But it so cold. Snow is melting, or it was, so one we have lots of ice ice baby lol
Stay warm peeps!
And buckle up for more snow tonight and tomorrow ❄️

02/06/2025

Hello beautiful blue sky!!
A nice little reprieve before the snow returns tomorrow through Monday. I’ll gladly take the cold temps and blue sky today

02/06/2025

Snow Log Day 6 ❄️
Yep, more snow 🤣
And cold this morning. But it’s pretty, and it’s not raining, and no bugs lol
Stay safe and warm all!
Hey, I hear we could get more Saturday and Sunday 🤪🤪

02/06/2025

Proud to be a sponsor and supporter of this fun show. It’s a great way to end the local show season before heading to Oklahoma for the big dance!
If you’d like to become a sponsor please reach out to Denise Lester

And the sponsorships keep coming! THANK YOU and BIG PNW GRATITUDE to Linda Collins of Timber Creek Stables for her loyal and consistent support of our wonderful show...This year, our 70th Anniversary, and the many years past. Linda and her talented team are a staple of PNW Morgan Horse Show, and we are so lucky to have them!

02/05/2025

Snow Log, Day 5 😂
Yep, we still have snow. Yep, it snowed again last night. And you’ll never believe it, but mores coming today and tonight! The good news is some of it melts each day so we don’t have a huge pile to trudge through while doing chores. Now if it wouldn’t refreeze and have ice under the new snow, it would be great.
Well off to work while the dogs enjoy another snow day ❄️☃️

02/04/2025

February Snow Log, Day 4 😂
Yes, it is pretty, but now we have a nice layer of ice under the new snow from last night. A brief reprieve before more snow this afternoon and tonight. And the fun continues for another week 🤪
But it’s pretty lol

02/03/2025

When you’re not sure about the white stuff falling from the sky and sticking to the ground. May I present to you….. snow lol

02/03/2025

And here we go again. Day 3 lol
How many days til Spring? You know what’s gonna be awesome? When the snow starts to slide off the roof while riding 🤦🏼‍♀️🤪😂

02/02/2025

Snow day number two is officially on lol
All the snow from yesterday melted, but we today is making it for it, and then some. Is it Spring yet? 😂

02/01/2025

First snow day of the year at the farm! Stay warm everyone. It sure is pretty, but I’ll gladly welcome back the sunshine 😉

01/31/2025

You don’t have to be perfect, just present

Your horse doesn’t need you to be perfect

In fact, the pursuit of your perfectionism just might be the main thing holding you back from a successful relationship with your horse.

“Perfectionism is often defined as the pursuit of flawless performance or outcomes, accompanied by critical self-evaluation and harsh self-criticism.”
- Hritz N

You see, perfectionism is rooted in a fear of failure. And when you are working with your horse, fretting about the future (fearing you will fail, and putting extra stress on yourself to be sure you are doing it perfectly), you are not present. What your horse desires the most to feel safe is a present minded, stable individual. One that’s predictable in there energy when with them. Horses don’t have large pre frontal cortex’s, which is the part of the brain for humans, used for organizing, planning, perfecting, manipulating, ect. While they do have a small one, it functions differently than ours. So when we get stuck in it, they just don’t really understand it. They rely heavily, however, on memory. Each time your with them their memory of the event before and the “feeling” they had with you is strong.
There is power in being present, and grounded when working with your horse. More power in that than you being overly focused, stuck in the thinking part of your brain in order to be ‘perfect’. While a small amount of perfectionism can be good to keep you striving for better, we have to work hard to “get out of that space” when you are working with your horse.

While getting better is always the goal, and learning to ask with better technique is great, we can’t get stuck in the loop of perfectionism which leads to the anxiety of failing due to over self evaluation, and fear that we won’t be able to ever to do it our own standards. Take relief in knowing your horse isn’t asking you to be perfect, you are the only one doing that. I’ve seen some of the most incredible bonds and relationships created with imperfect riders.