Am I too old for all this?

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As I was wrestling with a damp haynet in one hand and two horses in the other this morning in a howling gale and trying to open the gate, I thought I must be bloody mad. The rain had just started again and I had two rather yucky stables to muck out, fences to check and water and hay to do before trying to get to work at 9.00 a.m.

I am 50 (yes, even I can't believe it) and something tells me that I should be wriggling my toes in a warm bed and looking out of the window at the waving trees and getting up and having a leisurely breakfast before making it to work on time, or even early.

I know a lot of you will be doing 45 stables before dawn but you are probably all about 20!!!!! Does anyone feel the same?!!!
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I dont know about too old but I definitely dont feel like leaving my bed when I can hear the rain lashing against the windows. My Sec C filly doesnt like having a wee inside (she will, but she prefers to go out) so the thought of her crossing her legs always gets me up
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Strangely enough once Im out there battling the elements I usually quite enjoy it
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OMG pinkweasel you have echoed exactly how I felt this morning - we must be mad
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I was also splodging in mud, wrestling gates, trying not to let my tiny pony blow over into next door's field (?) and getting rained on - fun fun fun all the way
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I think I am also getting too old for this - think I am gonna start postcard, stamp or teapot collecting
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Lilbonn, I actually enjoy it if I have got time not to be rushing and worrying about getting somewhere else. It's just mornings like today, everything is soaked, our hose is leaking, one of my wellies is leaking, everything seems to be leaking!!!!!! My horses are usually pretty civilised and surprisingly good this morning in force 8 gale! Our land is very hilly and I have to put their hay in big clumps so they don't blow away!
 
Its funny - when I used to do horses for a living and had to muck 9 out at 6.30 in the morning getting out of bed was extremely hard but once outside I was fine.

These day's I have two to do and I find getting out of bed so easy. Once I've had a cup of coffee and watched the weather I am straight outside and find mucking out etc a doddle - once you've had lots to do just doing your own is a pleasure!! I then ride and lead before work and then rush off to work. Yes I'm sure we are mad but it is definately worth it. What on earth would we do with our free time and money if it wasn't spent on horses? I dread to think.. I might even buy some new clothes!!
 
pinkweasel....Im 46 and was having much the same thoughts as you this morning as I wrestled two ends of snapped electric tape together in a force 9 gale!!!

I remember going to work in a nice warm office, in clean clothes, expensive shoes, proper make up......then again I was bored senseless!!
 
I am with you on that one Pinkweasel, after getting back late last night from my daughter`s school Christmassy thing and having to check the horses/hay/water, I then had to be up at the crack of dawn, staggered round a dark bedroom ( power cut ) getting dressed, then out to turn out, muck out, do hay, water etc in a howling gale and yet more pouring rain before doing the school run, which is when I discovered I had got my top on inside out and odd socks on, thanks to the power cut.
Sometimes I think knitting would be a more appropriate hobby, as I creak my way out to the horses!!!!!
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Ha ha sprout - you saying about clothes being inside out etc, the other week I got up to do yard (get up every morning at 4.50 am
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) and about 1/2 hour into mucking out - remembered i had forgotten to put my bra on - not good I can tell you LOL
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, but at least i had a good pair of Bridget Jones' on
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Forget my head sometimes as so tired!!
 
I am 47 and I was supposed to have a lesson this morning when I heard the wind and rain I cancelled it. I went up put the two boys out the rain battering on my face. I must say I need some thing to motivate me right now I just can't be bothered riding in this even if it is indoors. this wouldn't have bothered me a few years ago but now I just want to be cosy in front of the fire with a cup of hot tea.
I really do wish I didn't feel like this though. Must be time of year depressing.
 
Bayhorse, I know what you mean, I think with me it just less energy although I don't mind getting wet and filthy at all. Sometimes I get home and my husband just laughs at me cos my hair is all plastered down my face, I've got mud above my wellies and hay everywhere. My kitchen floor then looks like a ploughed field, with the help of 3 muddy dogs!

But, when all is said and done, I love my horse so much that I will just keep on doing it!
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pinkweasel - your right - we do love it all really - I really could not think of another hobbie/way of life other than horses - but its great to have a good old grumble at times
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(I think my hubby would disagree with this view though
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) LB x
 
pinkweasel - I'm only 25 and there are days when I feel like that!
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Once I'm actually out there it's ok - it's the actual getting up bit that I find hard. My house doesn't have central heating so it's v cold in the mornings
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Pinkweasel you definitely hit a nerve with your post. I ask myself the same question very often. Most of my friends are taking life a lot easier these days whereas I'm still falling off horses and plodging through muddy fields.
 
I'm 44 on Sunday - I do the opposite end of the day, and having worked far too late last night and not getting to the yard until 9.15, I left the stables at 11 pm having exercised, mucked out, scraped off two big hairy beasts and done feeds and nets to last until Saturday morning, and then another 30 min drive home

Look at it this way, we get regular exercise and keeping fit keeps you young - or at least that is what I keep telling myself.
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I know exactly how you feel, as I pushed a wheelbarrow full of hay and water UP into the field through deep mud (never seen so much in all the years I have had my boys here
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) the wind blowing my hood off and the rain whipping against my face. I used to be able to muck the 2 of them out before getting to work for 8am but now I cannot manage it
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. so I have considered that I too am getting tooooooooooo old for it ..... but somehow I love it ...... and my special bd is coming up in 8 days time
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i`m 49 but have been a lot better since i deceided to call it 39.
it`s very `bracing` on days like this and if i didnt do the ponies i`d probably be very fat and useless by now.
where i work there are some right old granny types who are younger than me but seem to have settled into middle age.argh.

don`t give up,there are loads of us out there!
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I'm 44 and don't feel too old for it (yet) but do think I must be mad sometimes! On the plus side, I appreciate having had the fresh air and exercise when I get to the office. I work with a couple of other people around my age who are nowhere near as fit as me (and that's not saying a lot!) so it does have some benefits!
 
yep! there have been a few moments when back has been playing up and i've struggled to fill haynets or carry them and I've thought to myself I am getting too old for this....
Also when mucking out.... it just seems to take so much longer as you get older! Then of course you have to take into account "tack room time" which is a totally different concept to normal time..... and then there is the socialising and coffee drinking at the yard that also slows things down!
Tis a hard life!
 
Having waited until I was 47 before I even was able to sit on a horse, I now have my own mare. I am now 50 and LOVING EVERY SINGLE POO/MUD/COLD/RAINY/EARLY MORNING MOMENT lol.
 
Thank God I am not the only one fed up this time of year! (see my post below) Days like this and Spring seems years away. But not only is it all the extra work but the extra cost of hay, food and shavings when they have to stay in.
 
My Mother is 70 and still looking after 3 on her own pretty much and riding two of them - the other is a pony. She does everything, mucking out all three, turning them out and bringing them all in, travelling solo to compete and have lessons. I am sure she feels like this sometimes and she does have a tendency to drop off in the eveining in front of the telly, but she is amazing. So no 50 isn't too old....you've got at least another 20 years more of it!
 
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