The last couple very hot 🥵 and humid days have the horses welcoming mid day showers.
GRAND OPENING barn bathroom 2024
Before and after photos
‘Ol Over Again GSF showed in the two year old breeding show.
Ollie did very well he was large in prescience and had behaved perfectly. This little stallion he minded his manners even when they bring their mare to distract him. Well he didn’t get phased and was all business today.
Now we need to step up our game. We have a plan and work toward bringing home the blue.GSF
Lazy days
Horse are relaxing
Day Three lots of stuff going on.
Meadow did her two jump rounds.
Phillip participated in the Active Duty and Veteran’s parade. Best time to sit on the back of a horse you haven’t been on before. At the parade in front of everyone.
Freestyle was in style. Lots of fun and a little Christmas Cheer.
Results for all jumping and freestyle are supposed to be posted by midnight. Ugh…
Day two at the Fl horse Park. Look what we found in the evening
Saturday Meadows is showing in the jumpers then Phillip will be riding in the Veterans parade on Cybertap. At the conclusion of the parade Meadow will do her Freestyle the Grinch
BABY it’s cold outside ..Brandi Van
Great couple days at Bruce Fields. Meadow and Cybertap returned from a long two weeks of Competition and traveling to Kentucky and back. They had ttwo clean rounds this week. A huge thank you to Jill Mills for coming out in the rain and always being there supporting meadows dreams.
Day one of the RRP Makeover 2023.
We want to thank Jill Mills her trailer. Phillip for his unweavered support of Meadows riding and everything else. Samantha her sister for taking time off to come help and support her little sister.
Spoke with Meadows trainer Jill Mills yesterday and she is excited about working on some things for further improvement when we get back.
O’ I forgot to mention that two of the four classes Meadow competed in at the TIP Championship she did completely without stirrups. While trying to help Cybertap from buldging she inadvertently lost both stirrups.
People were all worried about her riding like that. We said it is ok she does that often. Ride w/o stirrups. Jill Mills her trainer named her Velcro butt when she first started to ride. Well so far that has been pretty darn accurate.
We made it here 😁left at 4:41 arrived at 2:20
Meadows new riding boots got damaged while riding yesterday and well Sam quickly took the truck up to Cincinnati OH to have them replaced by Dover. Meadow wears skis 🎿 so that was the closest place that had her size.
Lots of new and first and things for us. It has been an exciting trip and a real adventure.
Cybertap passed her physical and jog out.
Got some neat pictures.
Looking forward to checking into the hotel 🏨 tonight.
Tomorrow is new day.
#tbmakeover2023 #meadowvan #rrpmakeover #tbmakeover #ottb #jillmills #brandivan
The TIP CHAMPIONSHIPS are done.
TIP has a new junior champion
CONGRATULATIONS 🎊🎈 🎉
MEADOW VAN ENGEN
We are now onto the RRP Makeover in the very early morning.
#tbmakeover2023 #rrpmakeover #meadowvan #tbmakeover #ottb #jillmills
What a great day 3 of 4 days @ thee TIP Championships
Meadow Van Engen took 1st 🥇 in round one and 4th in round two with the difference between 1st & 4th being just a few seconds. One girl almost got the exact optimal time which really set the bar high.
This has been an exciting how the kickoff of this weeks long journey is going.
We were very suprised to see Jill Mills and Ray show up.
We were also lucky to share these moments with my mom, Meadows sisters Samantha Makalla, her brother in law Jay and their baby Jelly Bean.
#ottb #rrpmakeover #tbmakeover2023 #tbmakeover #brandivan #jillmills #meadowvan
We are just 13 days away from Meadow’s ride time at the KY Horse Park.
The details have been published and are here !!!
Another nice morning not too hot nor too cold just right.
So today was a GET R DONE day.
Another project just about finished here at Hidden Stables on Chancey Pond.
I was on track to finish the project when the paint sprayer plugged up. I worked hard for about 30 minutes and had to pack it up to get the sprayer cleaned out and running again.
I’ll tell you it was amazing wearing the astronaut suit that makes you sweat to death 💀.
Obviously, we haven’t won the lottery yet. Still part of the GET R DONE CREW here on Chancey Pond.
I plan to finish this project up tonight if all goes well.
This project has taken way longer to get started than planned.
Of course the generator wouldn’t work so Dad and I worked on it for hours. Then Dad said take the carburetor off clean it out and it should work. Ya that would have been nice. I gave up on that generator told Dad I was done hassling with it. Dad did not give up on it he took it into a small engine mechanic and it runs great now.
Woke up to a beautiful morning it was cool and a fog haze through the pastures.