Finally!!

It’s been a busy month and we have really neglected keeping the blog updated.

We’ve finally found a nice barn to move the business; leasing some stalls at Windswept Farm from Knollman Dressage, where Becky Knollman, FEI rider and trainer, operates her business. We’ve gotten everything and all the horses moved; we’ve organized and re-organized all our stuff!! And now we’re working on painting and cleaning up jumps and getting more rails cut and painted too!! A few more days and it should be back to business as usual.

We’ve moved to Lebanon, Ohio. A quaint little town with a great horse community. Lebanon is famous for antique shops and the Golden Lamb, an old restaurant and inn (oldest hotel in Ohio, since 1803) with lots of history. We expect that our business will be able to expand nicely here. It’s about a 45 minute drive from home, but will be worth the extra miles.

Everyone at the new barn has been very nice and welcoming. We’ve made lots of new friends already. We has a joint Open House with Knollman Dressage yesterday which was very well attended. Gave us an opportunity to meet more people from the Lebanon community and meet a few potential clients for the future.

Besides my horses, 2 client horses came along and 2 more will be joining us the first of December! And then also have one or two horses coming in for training and/or evaluation. So already things are looking great for establishing some new business.

Since it’s been a dressage barn for several years, the jumps haven’t been used here so we’ve been getting them back in shape, scrubbing the PVC standards, purchasing 4x4s to trim for poles, and priming and painting some standards and the new poles. The footing in the jump ring seems great; it also hasn’t been used much in a few years, but is in good shape.

So we’re excited for the future and hope to have lots of updates to post soon!