For the most part, I really like my job. With everything though, some days are better than others. On the less than stellar days, I need an extra punch of something to make it through the afternoon. Drinking during lunch is less than ideal due to possible repercussions, and while some days I’ll go have a vent lunch with my co-workers on the really bad days it’s not enough. For the really bad days, there’s only one place to go. In case…
Yesterday I was checking my site analytics for 2011 for a future blog post. My traffic is pretty steady, so any abnormalities definitely stand out. Back last November I noticed a huge spike, and when I looked into it I saw it came from an extremely popular horse message board. Back when I worked at a major equine retailer in MA, I had to make banner advertisments to go on this message board for our company, and I think the…
A few years ago, the Facebook “Bumper Sticker” app was really popular along the same time as that “Apple Bottom Jeans” song. This lead to some equestrian somewhere on the internet making a graphic that made me laugh – a picture of Fleece Lined Open Front Jumper boots that said “Boots with da fur!” Flash forward to last night, when I’m shopping for my own pair of decent jumping boots on ebay to celebrate the fact that my horse not…
If you’ve been around horse shows much, or even if you haven’t, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the term “Push Button Horse.” It usually goes something like this. Two girls watch a nice horse and rider win many classes at a horse show. Girl 1 says to girl 2, “She’s just winning because she has that expensive push button,” and Girl 2 agrees. The term means that the (usually expensive) horse is like a robot, and all the rider…
There’s a common misconception that if someone loves horses, they’ll love anything with horses on it. Not true. There is a lot of really really really ugly horse stuff out there… but that’s another post. If you have a horse loving woman in your life and you want to give her a Valentine for the season (and who wouldn’t? Us horse girls are awesome), check out these options below. They’re all hand-made from Etsy and under $100, so you can go…
It’s official – I have a new pony to lease, and I love him! When I bought Teaspoon in Nov 2010, I had a definite type in mind for the kind of horse I wanted. Either a big bodied QH, Warmblood, or Draft Cross. A slow minded gelding. Not reactive, and a definite “push” ride. Of course, sometimes our horses get hurt and then we don’t have thousands of dollars to replace them with fat fancy Warmbloods. I started riding…
Here’s a story about Lauren in college: I went to a large land grant university where being an English major was not the desired department of cool kids. There were the Greek life students in the business school, the nerds in Computer Science & Engineering, and the farmer boys in Agriculture Science. Small aside – my husband, brother, and sister in law are in each of those three categories. I’ll let you guess which. Back to the main story –…
The warning to this post is that it’s going to sound snobby, but I feel like when you talk about horse shopping there’s a certain air of unavoidable snobbery that comes up. So go ahead and picture me sipping port before I had out for a brisk winter fox hunt with the royals. While you’re working up that picture in your mind, I’m going to help the general public on some general tips and tricks on how to not sell…