What's your guilty secret down the yard?

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Mine is I'm secretly [deniably] besotted with a certain cheeky welsh man [anyone who knows me KNOWS how much I detest welsh the majority of the time...]

He's just got the most cheeky face ever and is bold as brass.

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Just that expression he has! Mischeif [I want to officially have him as Mischeif Maker or something similar]. Tehehehehe. I shall, at the yard, completely deny that I'm slightly besotted with him of course...as he is part Welsh..and I famously dislike Welsh....Haha!


So what's yours?
 
I have a history of the close personal variety with a fellow livery, and A massive MASSIVE crush on another livery that is so bad its painful!!
 
Organising! I relatively recently bought shelving and boxes for rugs, lotions and potions and bits and bobs, bandage holders, and the gridwall shelving used in shops to pop all my grooming kit, helmets and stuff on :o. I spent a happy entire day putting the shelving together and boxing all of my rugs up in logical order - by weight :p. My new premier equine rugs arrived today and so I spent a happy hour reorganising and then altering the whiteboard which shows what rugs are in what number box, it also has information about what rug at what temperature for indoor and outdoor rugs for each horse! very very guilty secret from most people as I keep the horses at home! :D. The horses also have colour coded buckets and another whiteboard listing their feeds for morning and evening because you never know if me AND mum might suddenly both me bedridden with some awful plague and god forbid dad would have to do the horses :p :D (not happened ever yet though!)

I have also just got my new horsebox delivered and have spent an hour or two organising buckets lotions and potions and kit in the exterior lockers and am in the process of ordering matching cutlery, crockery and other dining stuff and will then be able to take it into the horsebox and decide which cupboard whats going in.

*sigh* I do accept I have a slight obsessional problem :p :D
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This is ahem 1 corner of the tack room :o

Ps apologise for the quality/size of pic!
 
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I feel like such a lazy pleb now!

My guilty secret is that I actually quite like BH :p Sometimes, like tonight, when everyone else is gone, I go and give him a cuddle over the door and tell him what a special chap he actually is. So now you all know, don't dob me in though!
 
wow Becca.. thats alot of sorting!! haha well done :D i have tried to organise my friends tack box and the next day o went up and she had pulled everything out of the boxes and onto the floor "because she couldnt find a mane comb.." :p i just want to live in your tack room!
 
Mincepie - rapid racking. It took me FOREVER to find boxes that were big enough and shelving deep enough to hold the boxes so this shop/industrial/warehouse stuff does the trick. Not cheap though but the boxes are great quality and strong and the racking is boltless so can be put together by one person and an impressively big orange mallet :p :). Mine are the 84 litre boxes (aside from the little ones I have on top which I have one for bits one for gloves etc). they do do some good deals whereby you get the racking with several boxes for a set price.

Depends on the thickness of the rug, trying to think what ive got and what I *could* fit in each box. 2 combo 350g stable rugs (belmont combos) fit in one box if that helps? I have also fitted 2 heavyweight 350g/400g combo turnout rugs in a box too though that is literally FULL. About 4 of flysheets, rainsheets (combos) and the like fit in each box and I think I can get 5 no-neck fleeces in one box.

It truely is my cough *obsessional* guilty pleasure! :D

Zarasmum, PennyJ, Clement82 thankyou :). I have just been given a tumble dryer by my cousin's husband's parents :) so figuring out where that will slot in best as it also needs room for a washing machine that my cousin is donating to sit next to it too then I will have CLEAN rugs in boxes too! :p that will be it the horses wont be wearing them! :p! :D (everyone in my family seems to be changing their washing stuff atm which is brilliant :D I did almost take possession of a dishwasher for washing the coffee mugs in but mum said that was OTT and wouldnt let me! :( I think she may have a point there though! :) )

PS clement82 - mum erm did have to drag me away on the night it was up from titivating as it was almost 10pm and I hadnt had dinner :o so I would live in it too :)! I would be (quietly) mad (and silently sulk)!! the comb would have been in an "obvious place" where it made most sense to put it! :p. I also do similar to this though with friends stuff when they arent looking, usually tidying up their bedroom if they are in the shower or something! :p close friends only though so they are used to me! :D
 
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becca1305 said:
Organising!
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:D I should say so! Very impressive indeed...

I stay out of the Owner's tackroom apart from to put notices up and empty the trash can, somedays it looks as if a bomb has gone off in there, other days everything is back on the shelves, racks, hooks and lockers. Their tackroom is nothing to do with me!
 
I love mixing feeds. Love, love, Love it! Even if I won the lottery & could pay for all of the rest of the stable chores to be done I'd still mix my own feeds :D
 
As far as ponies go...Delilah is mine. She's prone to laminitis (sp?), but I got to spend 10mins grooming her and she was so sweet. Even gave me a kiss before she left!

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As far as jobs go...I love sorting my box full of Ned's stuff and I love cleaning bits :D
 
Like Rudey - I love a swept tidy yard & will happily wield a broom till its done to my satisfaction :)

I also love squaring & levelling the muck heap, tho it was SO drilled into me many eons ago that you judged a yard by its tidiness of a muck heap (anyone else?) that I squirm if its untidy if I've tipped out a barrow & not levelled it over :o
 
I am very lucky that I share a paddock with only one other lady. I say lucky because she has learnt to ignore the strange things I do!!!

My guilty pleasures include (but are not limited to):

Scrubbing water troughs, raking up left over hay, fixing fencing myself, raking pine needles out from around the paddock shelter, picking up poo (great de stresser!) randomly haltering both the boi and my friends pony and giving them complete makeovers, reorganise halters and grooming kits, move things just cos I can, etc, etc.

The lady regularly comes home to see me tottering in bare back on her pony after deciding I felt like a ride but didn't bring down the boi's tack. We basically treat both horse and pony like our own and do whatever with them, I trust her to take care of the boi and she trusts me to take care of the pony. It has worked very well for over 5 years.
 
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I also love squaring & levelling the muck heap, tho it was SO drilled into me many eons ago that you judged a yard by its tidiness of a muck heap (anyone else?) that I squirm if its untidy if I've tipped out a barrow & not levelled it over :o
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Me too but fortunately our trailers are emptied twice a week so I do'nt have to spend ages doing it as it isn't there long enough to bother me!
 
glamourpuss said:
I love mixing feeds. Love, love, Love it! Even if I won the lottery & could pay for all of the rest of the stable chores to be done I'd still mix my own feeds :D
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Yep, me too, love it! Even though my baby horse doesn't for one sec stop to look at it, just throws his all over the floor before hoovering it up!
 
Is it wrong that i'm slightly turned on by Becca's photo? :s

I feel so lazy - my place is organised chaos - like my life really :/ It looks insane, but I know exactly where everythighg should be and I get really wound up if people interfere with my system :mad:
 
Digging up ragwort - I was obsessional about this in the summer as the field my mare was in had been the starvation paddock and the weeds were just left to take over. So you might think I was just being a responsible horse owner well my obsession went a bit further when my husband got sick of me pointing out ragwort at the side of the road as we drove along and then threatening to pull it up whenever we saw it whilst walking the dogs!
 
Bedding down! Their beds have to be immaculate! All level, banks have to be symmetrical to the point that if checking with a spirit level, they'd be spot on straight!! I can't have a piece of bedding out of place!! It's quite annoying if I need to be quick, although much speedier now I'm on straw than shavings! I just can't seem to help myself!
 
becca1305 said:
Organising! I relatively recently bought shelving and boxes for rugs, lotions and potions and bits and bobs, bandage holders, and the gridwall shelving used in shops to pop all my grooming kit, helmets and stuff on :o. I spent a happy entire day putting the shelving together and boxing all of my rugs up in logical order - by weight :p. My new premier equine rugs arrived today and so I spent a happy hour reorganising and then altering the whiteboard which shows what rugs are in what number box, it also has information about what rug at what temperature for indoor and outdoor rugs for each horse! very very guilty secret from most people as I keep the horses at home! :D. The horses also have colour coded buckets and another whiteboard listing their feeds for morning and evening because you never know if me AND mum might suddenly both me bedridden with some awful plague and god forbid dad would have to do the horses :p :D (not happened ever yet though!)

I have also just got my new horsebox delivered and have spent an hour or two organising buckets lotions and potions and kit in the exterior lockers and am in the process of ordering matching cutlery, crockery and other dining stuff and will then be able to take it into the horsebox and decide which cupboard whats going in.

*sigh* I do accept I have a slight obsessional problem :p :D
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This is ahem 1 corner of the tack room :o

Ps apologise for the quality/size of pic!
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Thats very OCD!!!!! but am very impressed!
 
becca1305 said:
Organising! I relatively recently bought shelving and boxes for rugs, lotions and potions and bits and bobs, bandage holders, and the gridwall shelving used in shops to pop all my grooming kit, helmets and stuff on :o. I spent a happy entire day putting the shelving together and boxing all of my rugs up in logical order - by weight :p. My new premier equine rugs arrived today and so I spent a happy hour reorganising and then altering the whiteboard which shows what rugs are in what number box, it also has information about what rug at what temperature for indoor and outdoor rugs for each horse! very very guilty secret from most people as I keep the horses at home! :D. The horses also have colour coded buckets and another whiteboard listing their feeds for morning and evening because you never know if me AND mum might suddenly both me bedridden with some awful plague and god forbid dad would have to do the horses :p :D (not happened ever yet though!)

I have also just got my new horsebox delivered and have spent an hour or two organising buckets lotions and potions and kit in the exterior lockers and am in the process of ordering matching cutlery, crockery and other dining stuff and will then be able to take it into the horsebox and decide which cupboard whats going in.

*sigh* I do accept I have a slight obsessional problem :p :D
IMG_0116.jpg


This is ahem 1 corner of the tack room :o

Ps apologise for the quality/size of pic!
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would you like to come and organise my tack room, with 3 teenagers it desperately needs it
 
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