{"id":558,"date":"2009-08-27T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-03-04T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:36:37","slug":"lazy-summer-days-at-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/27\/lazy-summer-days-at-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Summer Days at the Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_560\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560\" data-attachment-id=\"560\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/dsc01754\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01754.jpg?fit=2736%2C3648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2736,3648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-T700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1251305684&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"minno\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Taking a rest on Minnow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01754.jpg?fit=590%2C787&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-560\" title=\"minno\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/dsc01754.jpg?w=225&#038;resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Taking a rest on Minnow\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01754.jpg?w=2736&amp;ssl=1 2736w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01754.jpg?resize=375%2C500&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01754.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01754.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking a rest on Minnow<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I fully intended to ride Boomerang yesterday&#8230;.I really did &#8211; I swear. My engine just sort of died when I got to the barn. Sometimes I wonder how I fit everything I do into a day. Its difficult to balance all of it. I&#8217;m barely getting much sleep lately &#8211; thanks to a cranky dachshund who can&#8217;t understand why I&#8217;m sleeping on the floor and he&#8217;s locked behind a doggie gate, I balance <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">a full time job<\/span> running a business &#8211; make that 3 businesses (Green Horse Studios, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponypaintings.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pony Paintings<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studio3pa.com\" target=\"_blank\">Studio 3<\/a>), I then feed and care for 7 horses (which includes mucking stalls and daily feedings and turnout), I try to ride\/train my horses 5 days a week, and then there is the house remodeling, not to mention having time to make dinner\/spend time with the husband. I just made myself tired typing this list.<\/p>\n<p>But honestly, I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. I&#8217;m extremely happy (even if I&#8217;m sort of exhausted lately) and I enjoy having lots of projects to work on. I&#8217;m not one who enjoys &#8220;being bored&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_561\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-561\" data-attachment-id=\"561\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/dsc01748-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc017481.jpg?fit=2736%2C3648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2736,3648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-T700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1251305367&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pony and apple\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Boomerang&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc017481.jpg?fit=590%2C787&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-561\" title=\"pony and apple\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/dsc017481.jpg?w=225&#038;resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Boomerang\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc017481.jpg?w=2736&amp;ssl=1 2736w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc017481.jpg?resize=375%2C500&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc017481.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc017481.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boomerang<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So that being said &#8211; yesterday I just didn&#8217;t have to energy to ride. I feel kind of bad about it actually &#8211; considering I have another competition coming up in 2 weeks and Minnow is set to perform again in a week. Ah &#8211; I need to get on the ball again!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so instead yesterday, I enjoyed some time with my favorite Chincoteague Ponies. I discovered an apple tree in the back yard of my new house &#8211; and of course any loving horse owner like myself would bag up as many as they could carry and bring them to the barn for their horses. My ponies better love me after that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_562\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-562\" data-attachment-id=\"562\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/dsc01749\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01749.jpg?fit=2736%2C3648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2736,3648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-T700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1251305412&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"blitzy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Blitz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01749.jpg?fit=590%2C787&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-562\" title=\"blitzy\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/dsc01749.jpg?w=225&#038;resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Blitz\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01749.jpg?w=2736&amp;ssl=1 2736w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01749.jpg?resize=375%2C500&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01749.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dsc01749.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blitz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So there you have it&#8230;.a very rare lazy summer day for me and the trick ponies (and the dachshund too).<\/p>\n<p>-KD<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponypaintings.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.ponypaintings.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I fully intended to ride Boomerang yesterday&#8230;.I really did &#8211; I swear. My engine just sort of died when I got to the barn. Sometimes I wonder how I fit everything I do into a day. Its difficult to balance all of it. I&#8217;m barely getting much sleep lately &#8211; thanks to a cranky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,948,115,125,204,261,273,292,406],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life","tag-assateague","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-clicker-training","tag-farm","tag-horse","tag-iron-horse-farm","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-pony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-90","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34798,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/34798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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