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By: Sally A. Nolte
I'd like to welcome some new students to our barn
family! Chris Toft, Abigail Taub, Jay Woody, Carrie Myers, and Janet Solomon!
We're very glad to have you with us, and hope you stick with the fantastic sport
of horseback riding!
So'Fundraiser!!! So far the interest has been pretty
good'please email me or call me and let me know how interested you are in
helping, and how much you think you can do, so I know how many cards to order!
If you want to help, I'll start by ordering one card per person'.if you think
you can do more, let me know! You can also tell me at your lessons. I'd like to
get the fundraiser started in early September and have it run through the end of
the month. That'll give everyone plenty of time to get all those circles
scratched off! Some of the things we're going to do with the fundraiser money:
- Get a wheel for the gate at the entrance to
field (it hits the ground partway in)
- Get new rubber mats for the wash area
- Put new latches on the stall doors and gates
- Put boards up in the barn where they're
missing or broken
- Replace some of the broken boards on the
fences
- Get new western saddles for the kids and
those interested in riding western
- Buy new cones for the arena ' colored ones!!
- Buy Pole Bending poles (it's a new sport!)
- Buy a radio for the barn
- Get shoes put on Dandy
- Get new jump cups and poles for the arena
- And anything else we can think of!
Next subject'the Flintrock Farm show on September
15! It starts early, at 9 am. It's a schooling show, so there will be a lot of
available classes to enter. Anyone that is interested in showing, please let me
know ahead of time so I can schedule horses and riders for individual classes.
It's debatable whether or not Dublin is going ' it may just be Prissy, we may
have another horse by then. Details to come on Dublin's situation. Let me know
if you want to ride Prissy, or Dublin, or both in the show and we'll see how
much interest we have. There is a possibility I'll decide not to let you show,
if you haven't before ' that discretion is up to me to decide, based on my
knowledge of your current riding skills. That's not to say that you're not all
doing wonderfully, but that some of you just aren't quite ready to show yet!
Definitely let me know if you want to show. Know
that there is a considerable amount of money that goes into showing, both in
investing in the clothes for showing, and in entry fees. There is a $25
showing/horse use/coaching fee/trailering fee applicable to each student
entering the shows. Due to the number of people that will probably show, each
student may get to enter about 2-4 classes each.
Labor Day is September 3rd! I'll be teaching in
the morning, but only until 10 ' so get your lessons scheduled early if you
still want to come! I'll be out as early as 8 for anyone that wants to come.
It's supposed to be cooler this week! There may
also be a lot of thunderstorms, so be forewarned!
I guess that's all for now'.let me know if you
have any questions, comments, or suggestions! Schedules will be changing a bit
because of school starting back up, so a lot of the younger school-age students
will be taking lessons on weekends now. That frees up more time for you
after-work adults!
If you've quit lessons for the summer and want to
start them back up after next week when school starts, write or call me and let
me know!!
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