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Stirrup Courage Partnering with horses to support children who have experienced difficult life situations.

07/03/2025

Thea wanted me to make her the “new merch model” when she geared up to volunteer in all her new logo wear last Thursday. Last order will be placed soon for crewneck sweatshirts (multiple colors available) and the warmest, comfiest fleece sweatpants (gray or black), $25 each if you’d like a chance to add in an order before I send them in! New Embroidered logo hats are available for immediate purchase $20, pink or blue, limited number.

06/03/2025

Monday/Tuesday evening classes completing their week 2 “Equine Valentine” pattern and conversation heart love letters to their favorite horse (read their letters at the end of the pics to see who they chose!).

04/03/2025

Daytime homeschool girls led the way into week 2 of the February Valentines theme through a full-arena course of weaves, serpentines, circles, and ground poles while choosing words to best describe their favorite horse for their “equine valentine” love letters 💌

03/03/2025

There is always plenty of action when this sister-brother duo returns to class! Wrapping up the final rose bouquet deliveries of winter session week 1!

28/02/2025

Winter Horse Care group finished their graduation class, and passed their obstacle course to show off their new independent leading skills with flying colors! 🎓

26/02/2025

Saturday classes getting their Valentine’s roses delivered! It is so good to see all of these faces back after the long winter break! 😍

23/02/2025

Thursday class making their Valentines Bouquet deliveries valentines 💝

21/02/2025

Tuesday classes making Valentines bouquet deliveries 💐

20/02/2025

New Monday class groups made up of some of my most independent students got to kick off our winter session with the first lessons of 2025! We played a Valentines themed version of the flag race, reinforcing balance with leaning and reaching while communicating accurate directions to their horse.

19/02/2025

Our winter Horse Care students have one more class to finish and graduate their intro level! Their second and third class included lively discussions with their mentors, riding demonstrations by Snowball, horse-hairdo day turning Stitch into a “Who” pony, and joyful trot races across the finish line!

17/02/2025

On Saturday, February 15 we held our 3rd annual Celebration Banquet and awards ceremony to celebrate the accomplishments of 2024. Thank you to all the volunteers, students and their families who attended and made all the planning and preparation worth it! Huge shout outs to volunteers Michelle Klintworth and Sue Maxymiv who helped make the decor of our space and tables match beautifully with the multi-colored tie-dye theme, and to the Klintworth and Medure families who stayed late after the banquet to help the Steiner family with clean-up! Cheers to another amazing year TOGETHER!

11/02/2025

The very last riders of 2024, getting in their final rides of the year mid-November before winter break. Now we are one week away from the start the first week of winter session lessons for 2025!!

10/02/2025

In November I started a new Horse Care group to get a few last kids off the waiting list before the end of 2024. In their first class in the program, all new students learn our safety rules, the grooming tools and how to use them, and to walk and stop their horse on lead.

28/01/2025

Riders at the end of our last week of 2024 riding lessons before winter break, playing our version of “Musical chairs (cones)” combined with discussion of their favorite parts of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with their mentors, as they marched around the circle to the “Gobble Gobble” song 🦃

26/01/2025

Snowball, the Stirrup Courage mascot cat, has discovered that the warmest place to be during the coldest weeks of winter is on the back of a horse! 🤠🐱😆 Some horses tolerate giving cat rides better than others…in the pic riding Misty, she started walking right after I took the photo; he tried to grip to hang on, Misty freaked out about what was on her back and jumped forward, and Snowball took a big tumble off her back end into the snow! However, the picture sleeping on Boomerang’s blanket (my old retired guy who came over to wait out the negative temps in the heated indoor) was taken later that same evening after his first fall off of Misty, so he has officially earned his “Getting right back on a horse after you’ve fallen off” trophy! 🏆

24/01/2025

For her last ride of 2024, Maddy got to help test out new horse donation “Dolly” during her trial period. Dolly handled allowing Maddy to get through all the steps of our banner-building exercise very well, and giving one of my more experienced young riders a chance to be one of the first to test out a new horse makes her feel empowered and important 👏

21/01/2025

More of the last rides of 2024 before winter break, playing Thanksgiving-themed “Would you Rather? to spark some fun discussion with their volunteers!

17/01/2025

The second week of November started our final week of riding classes before winter break. It was such a pleasure to have these two similar-age young teen girls learning and riding together this fall, and I can’t wait to see their progress continue when we come back in February!

Address

823 South Kohler Road

44667

Telephone

+13308286360

Website

http://www.stirrupcourage.org/

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Videos

Corbin and Cricket demonstrate their time-saving ring-it-while-walking technique in the ring-toss challenge. In true competitive Corbin form, he had to turn the whole thing into some kind of beat-the-clock, living video game scenario 🥇🎖️”That’s a new record!” 😆 Thanks for being just the right size and speed, Cricket!!