How many of yall work full time outside of your home? How do you work in your horses in your schedule? It's been difficult but I've managed so far but soon I won't have the flexability with my schedule that I do now. Any suggestions?
I work from home, and so does ecurbh at the moment, so it isn't a problem for me, and I ~still~ don't ride as much as I should!
It's just too cold to feel much like riding in winter. But when I did work full time, there'd be some months where I never saw my place in daylight, save on weekends. Some people who keep horses at boarding stables around here do better because they can ride after dark if the place has an indoor arena.
In retrospect, when I was working full time off the place, it did actually make me more efficient about coming home and spending my home time wisely, as it was more precious than the hours I waste now ;~D
I don't get to ride much, maybe once a month if I'm lucky, and I don't work at all. I do have 5 kids, a large home, farm animals, etc. By the time I'm finished cleaning, laundry, feeding, etc, there's usually no time to ride. I got to ride yesterday, with ShakeNJake, but I got no work done. I have a buttload of laundry today since I didn't do any yesterday. I did have a wonderful time, though!!! It was worth it!!!
I saw the posts about log cabins. We bought 83 acres of beautiful land in southern Ohio and put a log home up and it turned out great. If I can post some pictures of it I will. (Not sure I have any on my digital camera) Now my dilemna is where do I put my horse when I go down there? I would like to fence in a pasture with a lean to , but I'm worried about keeping him pastured 24/7. He's not used to that, only about a 2 hr. pasture time at the stables. Any ideas from anyone?
I 've worked full time as a systems analyst for what seems like all my life, ever since I got out of college a billion years ago. I have trouble working in my horse time too. Especially now. We're living in a small duplex next to our property until we somehow get off our butts and build. We don't have a decent enough fence around our place that I'd feel comfortable leaving my horses there where no one can see them. So my horses are split up, with half of them at my FIL's place where my MIL feeds them, and the other half at my BIL's place where I can only manage to get by there once a day to feed on my way home from work. I'd like to ride every weekend, but I usually can't for one reason or another. Either the weather doesn't cooperate, or I can't find a riding buddy, or I have to pay some attention to my hubby so he won't divorce me. I don't know what I'd do if I had any kids. My suggestion is just do what you can, take care of 'em as best you can, enjoy 'em when you can and don't feel guilty when you can't. Life's too short.
If you talk to my boss he'll tell you I don't work outside the home at all. If you talk to my wife she'll tell you I don't work at home, either.
Based on what they are saying I guess I should have voted for Kerry so I could get paid to do nuttin.