Golden Gaits Farm

12/16/2023

Hey everyone!

I got/made stall caddies for my horses while they are in TN this winter for supplements. Shared it with with my TN horse families asking if anyone wanted to order some from me for themselves, and Shannon Gibbs was the first to message me! I was able to recreate her logo and LOVE the way it turned out!! I just had to share a progress pic! 😍

At shows I plan to use them on stall fronts to hold all the things I never know where to put 😅 (snacks, cup, rag, phone, water bottle, fly spray, back number, horse treats, etc.)

They are 12" long, 4.5" deep and 7" high, and hang on regular stall doors and walls. 1 for $20, 2 for $35.

09/28/2023

There's a large congregation of some of my favorite people in the entire world going on right now in Tennessee. So obviously I have to road trip down to cheer them on!!

09/14/2023

Amazing opportunity getting to go to the Purina VIP Equine Nutrition Conference! 😍 GGF feeds only Purina feeds along with several of their supplements! Loved getting to see where and how it's formulated and tested! (Thanks Green River Farm for the invite!!)

09/03/2023

I mean... I'm the only one still here, so I'm not in anyone's way 🤣

Check out GGF's video.

08/23/2023

Mid afternoon horse ice pops were a hit! Already have tomorrow's in the freezer!

Check out GGF's video.

08/07/2023

Still amazed at how this horse will willingly do anything I ask her to ❤️ I'm so lucky to be her human 🥰

Check out GGF's video.

08/06/2023

I am BEYOND excited to announce that after talking to the The National Equestrian Center, they will be offering TRADITIONAL Gaited Dressage (published by National Walking Horse Association) for the next schooling show season! (Which starts at the NEXT SHOW in September!!)

There are some details still to be worked out but this is a HUGE opportunity for us!! 🤩 So spread the word far and wide!!

07/19/2023

Praying for safe travels for anyone and everyone heading to the Walking Horse Owners Association Internationals! Here's our soaking wet pit stop in Paducah!

07/10/2023

Impromptu barn project!! Had this gate laying around, hating keeping the barn closed up to keep chickens out. Voila!

Allows crossbreeze ✓
Keep chickens out ✓
Cats can't knock over ✓
Easy to move/use ✓

07/09/2023

Adding another feather to our cap! Literally day 1 - baby steps... er, jumps!

07/01/2023

Beau vs Umbrella Man 🤣

Beau vs Umbrella Man

06/27/2023

Meet bun bun. 😅 S/he had an unfortunate encounter with our barn cat Brock and while I normally do not intervene when the cats get a hold of something (that is what they're here for), I couldn't stomach the baby bunny screams so here we are. 🤦‍♀️ S/he has a large but otherwise not so bad injury to its back (rabbit skin is fragile) but forums found via Google suggest it'll be just fine given time to heal.

I'm aware it could die of shock, but if nothing else I wanted it to die in a quiet safe place instead of being literally ripped to shreds by a cat 😳

It's so adorable 😍

06/25/2023

Phew! We are home and happily relaxing after Walking Horse Owners Association 's ROAR show - which was undoubtedly the most fast paced show I have ever been to!! 😳

Had some fantastic rides, worked through some new challenges and came out the other side a better rider for it. I am not exaggerating when I say I couldn't have done it without the support of my loving husband and a multitude of friends (who will all be tagged on my personal page). ❤️

Congrats to all competitors and thanks to WHOA, our fantastic judge, and DQP for one heck of a show!!

06/24/2023

More pics to come, just wanted to say I am SO happy to have hubby at the show now! I came down Wednesday and he's been holding down the fort at home on top of working, but he got here in time to see my last two classes today. He's spending the night to help me show and then pack up tomorrow! ❤️

06/20/2023

Lady and I had a fantastic weekend at The National Equestrian Center ! We got our final qualifying score for championships later this year at Basic Level and continued to work on our Level 1 test!

If you've hung around me for any length of time you know I refer to my equestrian friends as my "horse family," and that's because they really are there for me the same way I'm there for them. Nice rides, good scores, and pretty ribbons are of course rewarding, but the unconditional love and support from my horse family is the real treasure ❤️ Thank you to everyone who took the time to help, cheer, or even just chat! It means the world to me.

06/12/2023

Brock used his one "get out of tree free" card today.

06/11/2023

Couldn't be prouder of this girl right here! She earned her her UDSF GOLD MEDAL yesterday! Congrats Colleen! 🤩 Green River Farm

06/03/2023

Goodness gracious am I behind on updates!! 🤦‍♀️

Feed room is looking better than ever with shelves and tool rack installed! (April 25)

Lady and I had fantastic rides at the last NEC Schooling show where we got to show off our new GGF swag courtesy of a late night craft session with Erin ❤️ Lady really appreciated her show massage courtesy of Ashlie Hoch 🤩 (April 29-30)

Did my first ever oil change (of any kind) on the tractor (May 5)

Super awesome Hubby gave me my own complete set of power tools for the barn for my birthday 😍 (May 12)

Started building my own coop from scratch (ongoing)

(Side note: we have chickens! (March 18) Well, 9 chickens and 2 roosters; one Roo will become roo pot pie soon. I was keeping it a secret until my parents came to town)

Parents came to town and got to see all the property improvements! Girls went for a trail ride (thanks Lauren!) while boys played with pew pews and sharp metal objects 🤣 wrapping up with hanging out around the fire w/ Caitlin, Scott, Becca, and Mason (May 26-28)

Put temp sensors on the stall fans so now they will automatically kick on or off as needed (June 2)

And lastly:
The pasture is looking FANTASTIC (though we desperately need rain) (June 3)

04/25/2023

TA-DA! Dragged, measured (with perfectly square corners) and marked! Gonna need to make more letters now that we've upgraded to full size!! (Small trees are the stand ins for P, R, S, and V)

04/21/2023

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poor hubby is a barn widow '

04/08/2023

Why I drive 130 miles round trip for shavings 😲:

For starters, I trust Dennis and Suzy Hills implicitly🥰. They have extensive horse knowledge and experience, and have horses at home. When they endorse a product, I know they are doing so from their own experience. 👍

Secondly, the pictures speak for themselves. 🤯 I have removed the information from the white bag because it is not a bad product - I don't want anyone to think that it is! I bought a few of the white bagged shavings locally to tide me over until I could go get more of my favorite shavings. I paid the SAME PRICE per white bag as I did for the Bootheel Bedding bags. The white bag measures 2 cu ft compressed, and 3.5 cu ft when fluffed. The Bootheel Bedding measures 4 cu ft compressed and 8 cu ft when fluffed!! 🤩

At the end of the day, the extra gas and wear and tear on the truck still cost me SIGNIFICANTLY less than buying the same volume of shavings closer to home, and my trip allowed me to visit with Dennis and Suzy (worth the trip alone!) ❤️

Bootheel Bedding is top notch. They are super fluffy, absorbent, and my horses are very happy napping in them. (I am in no way affiliated with this business/brand - just sharing my personal opinion/experience!)

04/06/2023

Sometimes it's the smallest things that signify the biggest achievements.

To most, this is just a picture of a saddle on a stand. It's not a fancy saddle, wasn't new when I bought it. The wood the stand is screwed into is a scrap I found in my barn. It's mounted to a wall that will hopefully one day be a fully enclosed insulated, climate controlled tack room, but for now I'll keep it protected from the cats by an old secondhand homemade saddle cover.

But to me this is a picture of MY saddle in MY barn that I will reach for every time I saddle up one of MY horses to ride here at MY home. Tonight was the first time of what I'm sure will be countless times that I put it away, but for just this moment, I'm gonna sit on the ground and just look at it. One more small symbol of the dream I'm fulfilling every day. ❤️