Semi Intro Post
I just joined, I can't promise that I will stay longterm because when I have joined other horse related groups on LJ or GJ (back when I actively used those sites) I ended up leaving them for lack of anything to say.
With a username like OneHorseFarms it probably should be mandatory that I join horse related groups... but my relationship with horses may be less than the norm.
What I mean by that is, everytime someone in real life finds out I have a horse they think I must spend every waking moment with it/them. But I feel that concept to be strangling, as if horses are all that define me.
The most frequent thing that I hear is, "So you go out every night after work and see your horse?"
To which I answer, "Actually my horse lives on my parent's property and they feed him for me everyday."
I do love and adore my horse more than words can express, but he is not all that makes up me. Which is ironic to say because 5-6 years ago when my Arabian gelding died and I tried to go horseless for a while I was so unhappy and borderline depressed that I realized my motto, "Horses are like breathing... I require them to live."
If I were to psycho analyze myself it may be that I need something to take care of, and I just happen to have a spiritual connection with horses. So while I haven't been on a trail ride in several years now, my soul gets filled up just watching my horse eat his hay or in any of the moments I spend with him.
But this is a long winded intro and I haven't really told you a thing about me!
Here is my intro in one long rambling sentence:
I am 37, I have had many different horses and ponies starting at age five, I have a severe aversion to appaloosas and POAs from a horrible experience with my first pony (POA from hell!), I have never competed in a horse show but I did exercise Arabian endurance horses for many years and had a brief stint as a limited distance racer with my own gelding, I know way too much about coat color genetics and can spout out the color probabilities for offspring given the genetic markers for sire and dam, I keep changing my mind about what breed the "perfect horse" is, my current perfect horse is my 1/2 percheron, 1/2 paint PMU gelding, I have a feeling that my perfect horse in the future may be a full draft because every time I see sturdy legs and big feet I get love stars in my eyes, I wish I had more horse friends in my area, and finally I LOVE LOVE LOVE going to watch grand prix level jumping or dressage because HOLY CRAP those horses and riders are phenomenal!
Oh and for the record, I picked this username for my "farm name" because it reads like a complete sentence (Farms is the verb). I got so tired of people telling me I needed to change my username to "TwoHorseFarms" back when I had more than one horse. They were incorrectly reading it as a noun and assumed I was counting the number of horses owned instead of pointing out who was doing the work. :| ;)