Nothings ever easy

[joflasher]

I just got a phone call from the barn .5 miles down the street, saying "we have an opening, you should tell that other barn to sod off and come here". Now I don't know what to do. I suck at decisions like this.

One side, I already told the one barn I was coming there. I have the contract but I haven't signed and delivered it yet. They are $225 dollars more than the close barn and 20 minutes away. They also have an indoor arena, the close place doesn't have even have a ring.

The far one has dirt paddocks, the close one lots of lovely pasture. The far one is full board, the close one they supply hay and grain, you have to supply shavings and clean your stalls. With the far one, I can ride all winter. Close one, I can see Tisa every day and just walk to the barn.

Dumb game. I'm sick of this.


Update on kitties - going well. Banichi hasn't made any more bathroom mistakes. He's tried twice and we caught him before anything happend. The last two days, he hasn't tried. I did get another big litter box but he seems happier throwing litter all over the place by using the ferrets' boxes. Either way, he's not peeing on the funiture, so I'm happy.

The ferrets have started trying to get the kittens to play with them. Tira has been pouncing the kittens toys while the kittens were playing with them. Midori went bouncing and chuckling after Banichi this morning on the bed. The kittens, however, don't seem to understand what's going on. When Tira grabs a toy from one of them, they flatten their ears and back off. Banichi looked horrified by Midori ... you could almost see him thinking "its making noises, they've never made noises before, SHIT ITS COMING AFTER ME!!!"

Still, things are going well on the monster front. We aren't quite trusting the kittens to be out unsupervised yet but we aren't following them around like hawks anymore either.

Comments

Re: What a diabolical choice!

[flasher.livejournal.com]

1) Monthly. Thats for food, bedding, a stall, pasture and someone doing all the work. At the close place, the pay is for food, a stall and pasture. I'd still have to do all the work.

2) Its a lot like having a cat. You pick out the worst every day and do a good thourough cleaning once a week. Daily work is about 10 minutes. Big cleaning about 20.

3) That's one thing I don't know. If she's at the farther place, its not an issue.

4) You can ride as long as the weather permits. Last year, it iced up and stayed icey for about 2 months straight. Can't ride in that.

5) Basically everything you can do in a normal riding ring. This one is HUGE and is attached to the barn proper so it stays heated during the winter.

6) Yep. I really like trail riding but I also like teaching my horse new "stuff" like jumping and such and rings help.

7) Drain it, no. Fill it in, maybe. I don't want to though. For all this fuss, I'd still rather have Tisa at a nice barn with other horses (herd animals don't do well when alone) and my swamp just like it is ... only with less mosquitoes.

Re: What a diabolical choice!

[starherd.livejournal.com]

...I think the far barn will save you, but that's just me... and you, it looks like... ;-)
(You may not see her every day, but she'll be better taken care of when you're not there, and that sounds better to me. That, and inertia.)

Re: What a diabolical choice!

[tg2k.livejournal.com]

Wow, I remember my parents renting out a 2-bedroom apartment in upstate NY in 1990 for about $200/month. You pay more than that for your horse. Whoa...that's perspective for you, I guess. Or maybe just MA.