Love my livery yard

[Winters100]

For years now I have had a secret desire to have the horses at home again, but this week has made me really see what a mistake it would be.

I have had to leave the country at short notice to care for my Mother, and I cannot say how much I have appreciated the help I have received at the yard. They are on half livery, but I do a lot of 'extra' things for them, and everyone has been so helpful, YO has provided lots of extra care and sent me photos every day to show it is done, other liveries have been checking them, breaking the ice on the water in the paddock several times a day, adding the vitamins and supplements to their meals and messaging to ask if I want anything doing. 2 other liveries are exercising 2 of the horses for me and the pro is riding the other, not asking for any payment, just said that they know I like them fit and are happy to help.

Really it is at difficult times that you sometimes realise how fantastic people can be and how much kindness there is around you.

 

[ycbm]

I hope your mum is doing ok Winters.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Second that, best wishes to you and your mum.
Its nice to hear a good livery yard story, so many of the opposite and there are lovely places out there.

 

[Winters100]

Thanks. Mum is sounding a bit better, but she has pneumonia, which at 82 and with compromised lung capacity from polio is not a good combination I just hope that she will somehow pull through this though, she is quite tough so I am hopeful. Thanks for the good wishes

 

[dogatemysalad]

Hope you are managing ok and that your mum is doing well.
It is such a relief to know that you can leave your horses in good care at a moments notice. Great yards and YOs are worth their weight in gold.

 

[Tash88]

I hope your mum feels better soon, and just knowing that your horses are being well looked after takes that weight off your mind which is so important.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Hope your mum improves rapidly.

I too would like to rave about my yard! When the horse colicked last week, it had snowed. I was on crutches and very wobbly. A fabulous girl walked him round til the vet arrived. Then I just couldn’t walk at the weekend, so my amazing sharer just took over. The groom held him for something after my sharer had left, it’s just brilliant that people are checking and I get a call because he was choppy coming in.

My dream is to have my own place, but what happens if you have an emergency?

 

[Gingerwitch]

So sorry to hear about your mum. Hope she is on the road to recovery.
Xxxxxxxx

 

[Dave's Mam]

Hope your Mam is on the mend soon Winters, sending love.

I also love my livery yard.

 

[Honey08]

Oh Winters. I hope your mum is ok. You’ve always come across as a really thoughtful livery. I bet they’re glad to have you on their yard.

 

[COldNag]

Winters best wishes for a speedy recovery for your Mum.

Echo that - a good yard with good people is a lovely thing indeed

 

[Cluelessblonde]

Yes! I have my horses at home. I love my yard and I love that I can do it all for my horses and I have a few jealous friends ?... But and this is a big but I do a lot more on the yard than actually with the horses. I literally went rock picking for 2 hours yesterday so I can hopefully just long rein in it next weekend. It can also be lonely sometimes. And then as u said if u go away u have the whole what do u do with the horses situation. It works for me now but in the past it's hasn't. It's definitely not any easier having them at home or on a yard its just different.

 

[scats]

Hope your mum is ok, winters x
I’ve only been on 2 yards with my own horses. First yard I was there for over 21 years. Yes it definitely had its downsides and although I was never bullied, I witnessed some not-so-nice behaviour towards others. However, I had the time of my life at that yard and made so many friends that I’m still in touch with today. We had a lot of social nights too, away from the farm. It was such a big yard and someone was always having a party, wedding, birthday... life was just filled with so much fun and it’s a world I probably would never have never known otherwise. I suppose I had been quite a sheltered child previously, but I definitely learnt how to socialise, stand up for myself and be more independent after moving there. I moved off when I was 30, but I have such fond memories of it.
Yard I’m on now is very quiet and probably the closest to having my own yard as I’ll ever get. YO leaves us to it and we run the place as we like. I took 3 friends with me and there is another lady who is absolutely lovely. We are a real family.
I think I’ve been very lucky!

 

[Lots of Gift Bags]

It's great when you have a good livery yard.
My old yard was good, they offered services anyway so when I had to be off for various reasons I always knew the horses were well looks after.
I've now got my own place, and when I was on my own I had a freelance groom I could call on. She's now one of my 2 liveries and we all pull together and help each other out. She got covid a couple of weeks ago so the other livery and I have been covering her duties, it works out very well.

 

[babymare]

Hugs to you and your mum xx it sounds a lovely yard you are on

 

[MereChristmas]

Wishing your Mum a speedy recovery.
Your yard friends are wonderful.

 

[Winters100]

So good news and bad news. Good news is that she is out of hospital, very weak and I was up all night giving her oxygen last night (luckily I had bought her an oxygen concentrator when covid started). Bad news is that the hospital just rang to say that she was exposed to Covid while there. I'm sure that as the antibiotics do their work (on the pneumonia) she will be better every day.

Am doing everything I can to cheer her up. As she missed Christmas last year I am doing Christmas for her tomorrow. She is the pessimist of the family, now firmly convinced that we are all going to die, but luckily I am the optimist, so for now I have enough good energy for both of us

 

[ITPersonnage]

Bless you, you can only try and keep spirits up Best of luck with it all, I have my fingers crossed she will be fine XX