• My Horses and Poop Mountain
    Coffee Horses and Wine,  Farm Life

    Poop Mountain

    The beauty of snow in Colorado is that it disappears after a few days of sunshine. USUALLY. I have had snow on the ground for over 2 weeks now. As you may realize at this stage, I have some body deficits/disabilities, so I cannot chisel frozen horse poop without causing LASTING effects. I normally hand-pick my paddocks clean daily. TWO WEEKS OF HORSES POOP on the ground was murdering my soul. Enter Steve, the best hunnie ever. He used the tractor to scrape it all up, with a good amount of snow, into a poop mountain. So at least there are not land mines everywhere to trip and break something…

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    Cold as a Witch’s Tit…

    We’ve all experienced it or are about to… the Arctic Blast / Polar Vortex / Whatever you want to call it. Yesterday (Wednesday) I was out preparing the horses around 4:55pm, putting blankets on, bedding shelters, etc. and in a span of 30 seconds, I went from comfortable to downright cold. Only to find out after I went in the house and checked my personal weather station app (we have a weather station on the house) to discover in the span of one hour, we went from 39° and nice to -1° with 25mph meaning it’s -25° with the windchill. Everything went downhill from there. TLDR: I survived (-ish), my…

  • Coffee Horses and Wine,  Farm Life

    Building RAMM Flex Fence Paddocks… with a *how-to*.

    It feels like as of late all we have been doing is working on fencing in our *down time* (HAAAA down time, good joke). But I needed a way to start weaning baby Teo off momma CC, and taking them back and forth to a stall with run to separate for a few hours a day until he was fully weaned just wasn’t going to cut it. My boyfriend engineered the loveliest setup so that momma can still have a big paddock, and baby can have a small paddock on the side of that (technically we built it inside the existing paddock, but on one side utilizing the existing fence…

  • Coffee Horses and Wine,  Farm Life

    I did a *REALLY LITTLE* thing…

    So my momma mare CC (Behold CCF) is one of the sweetest gentlest horses I have ever encountered. So much so that she doesn’t really do well with my other horses because they are both more dominant personalities and she won’t stand up for herself at all. So what does one do with a sweet as sugar mare that needs a sweet friend so she doesn’t have to live alone once her baby is gone? You buy her an emotional support mini mare, obviously. Introducing Belle! She is about 32 tall, so TINY, but with big personality. She is very sweet, smart, and will learn anything for a cookie! Stay…

  • Amazon Prime Days Deals for Equestrians
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    Amazon Prime Day Deals for Equestrians

    Today and tomorrow are Amazon Prime Days. This means there are extra big deals on things you need (and don’t). To save you some time scrolling through Amazon, here are some deals that as an equestrian or horse owner, you might find handy. This is only good for people that have an Amazon Prime account, so if you don’t have one be sure to sign up before trying to take advantage of the deal. If you want to try Prime for free for 30 days, go here: https://amzn.to/3yXwSkC I’m going to preface this with *check your normal store to compare prices before purchasing* because sometimes the Prime Deal is still…

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    Cleaning a Water Trough with an Electric Drill

    If you are like me you HATE scrubbing water tanks. Between getting wet and gross, and my back hurting from bending over, it isn’t the most pleasant of farm jobs. So I tried a lazy way of getting the job done and it is my new favorite farm hack! I used some scrub brushes for drills (link below), and it saved me a lot of time, effort, and most importantly backache. Sorry, but it didn’t solve the problem of getting gross. The scrub brush kit for drills that I used: https://amzn.to/3It2IJlThe drill kit (brushless impact and brushless drill) that I used: https://amzn.to/3Rki4E1 And a bonus video of my funny girl…

  • Coffee Horses and Wine,  Farm Life,  Tack Talk

    Tack Room Upgrade

    We have been on our farm for a little over 2 years now. This entire time I have been using my horse trailer as my tack-up station (not that I was riding much so it didn’t really matter). I have high hopes of building my dream barn someday (once prices come WAY down again – which may or may not ever happen). But in the interim, we (my boyfriend Steve and I) finally bit the bullet and renovated/upgraded these 2 little tack closet things my barn had because I am finally starting to actually ride my horses; and climbing in/out of the trailer was obnoxious (thanks a lot legs), and…

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    Equine & Equestrian Affiliate & Ambassador Programs

    You may have noticed some of your favorite equestrians name dropping or even linking to some of their favorite products. There are many reasons for this, but the one I am touching on today is brand affiliates or brand ambassadors. Brand Ambassadors/Affiliates don’t get paid for what they do, per se, and they don’t get free products (like say, a sponsorship). Instead, they represent a brand they themselves typically support and they get a custom coupon code and/or link for that brand. If purchases are made through that link/code, they get a commission for those sales. Different brands handle their ambassador program differently: but typically some will give you credit…

  • #swoob and #swass
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    #Swoob and #Swass Season

    You might be wondering what that title is all about. One of my favorite local weather guys (Kody from Denver & Front Range Weather) coined these hashtags in one of his recent posts and I am all about them. It stands for sweaty (fill in the blanks). Well, I should say the hashtags made me cackle… The fact I am experiencing them – not so much. I am SO BEHIND on posting. A lot has happened. I will create some separate posts for the really fun things that deserve it. But in short: The bees are gone since things have bloomed; Tempi (my young grey mare) broke my foot by…

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    I bought a saddle!

    I am not, nor ever have been, a western rider. With that being said one of the goals with my young horse Tempi (Temptation ASH) is to not only do regular dressage, but to also do Western Dressage. So I have been very gingerly saddle shopping for a western saddle. My musts: show/equitation seat, not roughout, camel/light oil color, 25lbs or under, and ideally a little pretty tooling. Her musts: a wide bar set/gullet/whatever the heck it is called in western saddles. Easier said than done when combining all the requirements, on a used saddle, with a low (ideally $500 ish) budget. Then a GF posted a saddle she had…