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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Good example of how good my soon to be hubby is.
I am an office manager at our local Sale Barn. I sales are on Wednesdays and we never know when we are going to get out of here. Yesterday was a bigger day for us an I didn't get home until after 6. My SO had the horses out and was getting ready to saddle when I got home. We each rode a horse and I went for a walk after ( have a goal to workout everyday until our wedding, only 30 more days to go!!) and he cooked dinner.
Yes the pots are still sitting on the oven this morning but we will get to them when we get to them. Our house is a mess right now since I was gone over the weekend but it will also get cleaned when I have time. We are gathering cows tomorrow to brand on Saturday and I may have a few hours on Sunday to get some laundry done but we live through it. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | My so will cook once in awhile and sometimes supper is soup. .lol...i get up at 530..feed and head to work..get home at 5 and go feed and saddle the snarky ones and go in and make supper...back out at the barn by 6..and i start riding...right now i have 4 going..but i pony my 1 old mare..and soon I will be on my 5yr old and get him going again..so busy nights ahead....on some jackpot nights the so will make me a sandwhich and throw it on the dash of the truck..lol. .....its all a balance.........m |
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 Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | UTAHCANCHASER - 2017-05-11 12:59 PM Good example of how good my soon to be hubby is.
I am an office manager at our local Sale Barn. I sales are on Wednesdays and we never know when we are going to get out of here. Yesterday was a bigger day for us an I didn't get home until after 6. My SO had the horses out and was getting ready to saddle when I got home. We each rode a horse and I went for a walk after ( have a goal to workout everyday until our wedding, only 30 more days to go!!) and he cooked dinner.
Yes the pots are still sitting on the oven this morning but we will get to them when we get to them. Our house is a mess right now since I was gone over the weekend but it will also get cleaned when I have time. We are gathering cows tomorrow to brand on Saturday and I may have a few hours on Sunday to get some laundry done but we live through it.
Mrs. Mighty Broke says that a clean house is the sign of a neglected horse---what's up with that ???? LOL |
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 Poor Cracker Girl
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | The only way it gets done is good planning and letting some stuff go. My house is never clean enough. My barn is a wreck. But, my horses are fit!
I adjusted my schedule so I work 7 to 330. That gets me home by 4. Change clothes and head straight for the barn. The trick for me is I cannot sit down, some days not even to put my boots on. My couch has magical powers that will suck me down into the cushions and somehow turn the Netflix on.
Then I'll ride, usually ponying one for the "long trot" portion, clean everybody up, feed, and I'm back in the house by 7/730. My husband generally cooks dinner though we switch off pretty regularly.
I also schedule my afternoons pretty rigidly - Mondays are gym, errands, and non-riding barn chores (trimming feet usually), Fridays are date night, Saturdays are for barrel races, and Sundays are for house cleaning, lawn mowing, grocery buying. I also do a lot of shopping on Amazon so I don't have to make time to go to the store. Also, because I am very lazy.  |
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | I was feeling so accomplished on Tuesday - we have no DVR and there is only one 30 minute tv show that I get depressed if I miss and I've missed a lot, lately - The Middle....so Tuesday, during the first commercial, I put eggs in the pot to boil and caught 2 horses and tied them to trailer. Next commercial I saddled one - , next commercial I saddled the other. And before I went out to ride, I took the eggs out of pot to cool. Rode both horses and came back inside to make awesome salads for me and husband, ate, then went back out to feed and water the horses.
A lot of back and forth, breaking up tasks - heating something in the oven, hoppping off the horse to take it out of the oven to cool, then cooling horse off and unsaddling. My husband doesn't like to eat late, either...but if he comes home and starts mowing he stays out late anyway, so I try to work with that.
Before I lived with my horses, it was a totally different story. Crazy horsey married life 
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| I struggle with the same thing. I usually don't get home from work until 5:30 or 6:00. I am like everyone else and will start a load of laundry before I go outside. I have solid enough horses that I usually only ride for about 30 minutes. I have a 10 year old son. It is tough to help him ride or run him to his other activities and get my horses ridden too. My husband is great and will saddle my horse, sometimes even ride him and run our son to activities.
I am a master at 30 minute meals, but now that it is nice out, we don't eat until 9:00 a lot of nights. If I can put something n the oven, I will do that as I come down from the arena - before I unsaddle. Otherwise I cook dinner in 30 minutes. We also do eat leftovers one or two nights a week.
I would like to get in the habit of eating before we go outside, but I haven't found a way to make that work. |
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Party Girl
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Mighty Broke - 2017-05-11 11:29 AM UTAHCANCHASER - 2017-05-11 12:59 PM Good example of how good my soon to be hubby is.
I am an office manager at our local Sale Barn. I sales are on Wednesdays and we never know when we are going to get out of here. Yesterday was a bigger day for us an I didn't get home until after 6. My SO had the horses out and was getting ready to saddle when I got home. We each rode a horse and I went for a walk after ( have a goal to workout everyday until our wedding, only 30 more days to go!!) and he cooked dinner.
Yes the pots are still sitting on the oven this morning but we will get to them when we get to them. Our house is a mess right now since I was gone over the weekend but it will also get cleaned when I have time. We are gathering cows tomorrow to brand on Saturday and I may have a few hours on Sunday to get some laundry done but we live through it. Mrs. Mighty Broke says that a clean house is the sign of a neglected horse---what's up with that ???? LOL
I like the way that woman thinks!!! |
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | I work until 5-530 every night, home and go outside to start my evening process. I used to have 2 horses to ride and currently just have 1 plus a yearling. I like it a lot because I can ride, do my chores and not feel rushed. We still don't get in until 830 or 9 most nights. We are pretty good at putting some meat together and a salad that is a typical dinner for us. I get up before work and do a little work out and my SO goes and feeds everyone for me. I'm pretty lucky and have a guy that supports me even though he doesn't ride and does chores for me when needed. It is way less stress only having 1 to ride though. |
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| TrackinBubba - 2017-05-11 10:58 AM
The only way it gets done is good planning and letting some stuff go. My house is never clean enough. My barn is a wreck. But, my horses are fit!Â
I adjusted my schedule so I work 7 to 330. That gets me home by 4. Change clothes and head straight for the barn. The trick for me is I cannot sit down, some days not even to put my boots on. My couch has magical powers that will suck me down into the cushions and somehow turn the Netflix on.Â
Then I'll ride, usually ponying one for the "long trot" portion, clean everybody up, feed, and I'm back in the house by 7/730. My husband generally cooks dinner though we switch off pretty regularly.
I also schedule my afternoons pretty rigidly - Mondays are gym, errands, and non-riding barn chores (trimming feet usually), Fridays are date night, Saturdays are for barrel races, and Sundays are for house cleaning, lawn mowing, grocery buying. I also do a lot of shopping on Amazon so I don't have to make time to go to the store. Also, because I am very lazy.Â
This! And we meal prep all meals on Sundays, too. So I either just have to throw something in the crock pot before work or pull something out of the refrigerator. Its a bit harder for me since I have a toddler, but once I figured out I need to have snacks in the car or in thr horse trailer for him, we do okay. He sits in his stroller while I ride and then I will lead him around on my horses to cool them out and everyone's happy that way.
I also do not cook on Wednesdays- it's fend fer yerself night (aka Whatever Wednesday) and everyone can eat cereal or cookies, pizza or something else I will not eat. |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Mighty Broke - 2017-05-11 12:29 PM
UTAHCANCHASER - 2017-05-11 12:59 PM Good example of how good my soon to be hubby is. Â
I am an office manager at our local Sale Barn. I sales are on Wednesdays and we never know when we are going to get out of here. Yesterday was a bigger day for us an I didn't get home until after 6. My SO had the horses out and was getting ready to saddle when I got home.  We each rode a horse and I went for a walk after ( have a goal to workout everyday until our wedding, only 30 more days to go!!) and he cooked dinner.
Yes the pots are still sitting on the oven this morning but we will get to them when we get to them. Our house is a mess right now since I was gone over the weekend but it will also get cleaned when I have time. We are gathering cows tomorrow to brand on Saturday and I may have a few hours on Sunday to get some laundry done but we live through it. Â
Mrs. Mighty Broke says that a clean house is the sign of a neglected horse---what's up with that ???? LOL
And the folks on here know where priorities are between horses and houses  |
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Location: Montana | Part of my trouble is I sometimes don't get done working until 8 o'clock at night, so it doesn't leave a lot of time for much else, so for me during the week it is hit and miss...and I wish it was more hit. I get to work my horses on Saturday morning and get other chores done then (like check the fence, spray pastures, etc.). The good thing about my job is if I have a lame or sick horse, I can take off about whenever I need to, to go doctor them and come back to work (or have a vet out, or whatever). Trying to get a balance...but this time of year is our busy time, so I'm not complaining, I just don't know how I'm going to get my horses in shape. |
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 I Love the Oldies
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Location: Central Washington | Dinner gets cooked really late! LOL
I work full time, have 4 kids and we rope/ride at least 4-5 nights a week. There are nights I don't get to bed until midnight!
This week, we realized there wasn't a clean towel in the house...my laundry was that behind! 
Winter is my down time. haha...thats when people should come visit me, because my house is likely to be clean then! |
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Location: SW New Mexico | I clicked on this thread, hoping for advice..
I'm inspired by everyone's drive, to get out there after work. I'm a service coordinator for developmentally disabled individuals.. I have 9 families....
I however am alone in this endeavor.. I'm s caretaker for my developmentally disabled sister, and share custody with the ex of my autistic 12 year old. I have zero help.
Nobody makes me dinner, or feeds for me, and I struggle to keep up with a aging sister, and a selfish son..
I cry on how hard it gets to keep the house,make meals, and I board 7 horses, which requires a regular routine of feeding and cleaning pens daily..
I've tried to barter feed for help, and aside from the older heavyweight women who board horses they can't ride, it's all me.
This sounds more like a vent, yes guess it is..
Just wish at my age life could get easier..
I have the best horse I've ever owned, and can't get away long enough ...or often enough to get him going the way I used to.. before the fire...that hit me and burned 3 outbuildings and a divorce that almost killed me..
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | jettster - 2017-05-13 8:29 AM
I clicked on this thread, hoping for advice..
I'm inspired by everyone's drive, to get out there after work. I'm a service coordinator for developmentally disabled individuals.. I have 9 families....
I however am alone in this endeavor.. I'm s caretaker for my developmentally disabled sister, and share custody with the ex of my autistic 12 year old. I have zero help.
Nobody makes me dinner, or feeds for me, and I struggle to keep up with a aging sister, and a selfish son..
I cry on how hard it gets to keep the house,make meals, and I board 7 horses, which requires a regular routine of feeding and cleaning pens daily..
I've tried to barter feed for help, and aside from the older heavyweight women who board horses they can't ride, it's all me.
This sounds more like a vent, yes guess it is..
Just wish at my age life could get easier..
I have the best horse I've ever owned, and can't get away long enough ...or often enough to get him going the way I used to.. before the fire...that hit me and burned 3 outbuildings and a divorce that almost killed me..
Bless your heart----hugs. . . . . |
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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | Hour-and-45-minute commute and I work some weekends so I have to pick and choose where I want to run barrels. Ride on off days or before heading off to work. With entry fees, I can't be gone to a barrel race every weekend anyways so I pick the ones that matter. Also run during the week if my schedule allows it. To be honest, still finding the balance. |
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| This has been a struggle for me as well! I had an hour commute to work and a 3 year old son to drop off and pick up. I getmy 4 horses rode but sometimes I have to pick 2 then alternate for the next day. My son can now hang out in the area and be invloved some what. He doesn't want to ride but will play in the dirt long enough to get my two rode. THEN my husband calf ropes (TAKES WAY LONGER BTW) So we have to bring calves up and rope until hes done with his two horses. At this point it's 9pm, my kid is dirty, my house is dirty and there isn't any dinner cooked. Frozen meals come in handy. My husband and son could careless about whats for dinner.
I clean the house and grocery shop on Sundays. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I have learned I cant ride everything in one night, I usually rotate through horses and ride them every other day. Its just to hard to try and ride 4-5 a night cook and take care of children. I do get help from my husband but most nights he doesnt get home till 8:30 or later at night. I cook every other night so we have left overs the other nights that helps a lot.. It is just a matter of shuffling things around and see what I can and cant get done.
I usually cook as soon as I get home and then go to riding, when it cools off so the kids can play out side. When its starts to get really hot in mid summer I get up before work and start riding at 5 then it gives me my evenings to go at a slower pace and play with the kids. This is my favorite way to do get it done during summer/fall, winter I have to go back to riding at night and under lights. |
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Location: California | My husband cooks a lot and I've got him trained to be able to pull my gelding out and have him tied in the arena, brushed and ready to be saddled. I work 12 hr shifts and work full time. My husband works 8 hr shifts and full time. Lots of give and take and having extra hands help me feed and take care of them. |
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