High Spirits Stables LLC

06/22/2024

Happy Birthday to this Girl today !
Thanks for everything you do for all of us around here LB

06/18/2024

All horses were cold hosed and scraped down well before coming in for the night. Stay cool 😎

06/10/2024

Now that nice weather is here just a few reminders
We CLOSE at 5:30 PM on Saturdays and Sundays
Also please clean up after yourselves both inside the barn and outside.
Thank you

06/09/2024

I haven’t bought it yet but I have been looking like crazy for the original version.
The new thrush buster gel doesn’t work nearly as well

If you've been on the hunt for Thrush Buster here is why it has been out-of-stock in most places. Thrush Buster as you know it has been discontinued by Mustad Hoofcare Group and replaced with a newly formulated "Thrush Treatment". Meanwhile, Durvet Inc. took up the old formula and repackaged it as "Thrush Rid." We have gotten in the Thrush Treatment for our customers and we have Thrush Rid on backorder from our suppliers. Hope this helps folks who have been ripping their hair out trying to find this product. 🤠

05/17/2024

The best girly watch pup ever !

04/30/2024

Anyone looking to rehome their chickens. We are down to one older hen and she is lonely
Thanks in advance

04/16/2024

SPRING IS FINALLY HERE so just a few quick reminders. Please drive EXTRA slow. The driveway has constant crossing of kids dogs horses frogs snakes turtles ect. This is their home ! Also please clean up any manure other then the paddocks or stalls. Let’s all enjoy this nice weather. Thank you

04/12/2024

Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard…..every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.

2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to…

3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then your not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to…..

4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in awhile….they improve because they make riding a priority and give themsevles opportunity to practice.

5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what your AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...

6. Riding should be fun. It is work. and work isn't always fun.....but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.

7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important, too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.

8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.

9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others…..but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one.

*thank you to whoever wrote this! Not my words, but certainly a shared sentiment!

04/08/2024

The second one in 🤣🤣🤣

04/07/2024

Looking for Saturday morning stall help if anyone knows someone interested.

03/24/2024

All blankets are bagged up and labeled in the spare stall. Please take them home at your earliest convenience.

02/24/2024

Just a reminder . . . spring shedding is here so please clean up after yourself and that includes shedding hair.

07/27/2023

06/28/2023

Many ribbons came home and an Awesome day for these two girls and two mares !
Barn friends are the best friends ever 💕

04/12/2023

It’s that time of year again and TRAINING RIDES are available. Don’t wait for the schedule to fill up. Truck ins are very welcome or I can travel to you within reason. Specializing in young, green, and spooky horses. References available. Don’t hesitate to message for more details.

04/11/2023

Happy Spring. With some new faces I just want to remind everyone of a few things.
Please remember with longer nicer days we still close at 5:30 on the weekends.
Please clean up after yourselfs - especially in shedding season. Do not wait until after you ride by then the hair has blown all over including in the feed and waters.
Lastly please help keep the ring clean. If you use something it put it away and clean up any manure to insure good footing and no bugs down there.
Thank you all for your cooperation
HSS 🐴

04/11/2023

Hey everyone
Please take your heavys and mid weights home next time you’re here. Thank you

02/01/2023

MY LITTLE FARM ❤
“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.
Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.
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.”

01/06/2023

Hey guys. It came to my attention my safety vest is missing. I know a few of you guys borrow it so if anyone knows it’s where abouts I would greatly appreciate it. They aren’t cheap
Thank you for the help

12/23/2022

Power is back on
Horses are all in a heavy blanket
Stay safe everyone

12/23/2022

Everyone is OK but trees and wires are down across the driveway I’ll let you guys know when we’re clear but there’s no getting in right now

12/09/2022

Happy Holidays !

12/03/2022

Please bring your heavier blankets if they are not here. Temps are going to drop this week.

11/27/2022

Christmas Stall Decorating Contest.
Battery operated ONLY.
Winner chosen December 10th !

11/13/2022

It’s officially blanket time. If you are here today please put yours on. Thank you !!

10/21/2022

Very apt after the other day! 🫣🥹🙏

09/03/2022

Good Luck tomorrow Vika and Charlie
They should be riding between 11 -12

08/01/2022

Hey everyone. Just a reminder that the water table is dangerously low so please be very conservative with any water other then drinking water. Thank you