I love getting things organized and getting rid of things I do not use and likely will not have a use for again. Once Rose left, and all my barn things came home, it was time to clean out the trailer and organize all of my tack and equipment. First I like to assess everything at once. This requires locating everything and pulling it all out where I can meticulously go through it. To be honest, I am overly anal about being organized, so a lot of my things were already organized, but just needed to be gone through for the gleaning and re-organizing process.
The loot (not pictured is a closet in my home office that stores my saddles and girth):
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| Lots of stuff in and on the trunks to the left, piles of blankets to wash/repair and trash cans for feed filled with buckets, grain scoops and feed pans. |
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| Messy tack room that hasn't been cleaned for (sigh) two years. |
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| A tower of tack, horse vacuum, and equipment in tubs hiding in a corner of the garage and also exploding into the local vicinity. |
The final results:
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| Everything except the dirty blankets neatly stored and tubs labeled with detail lists of contents. The tubs will go up high on storage shelves and only contain things that I need once I have another horse. Sadly, I have a feeling that they will be collecting dust for a while. The trunks hold my riding gear, which I still plan on accessing regularly. |
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| Swept, dusted, and vacuumed tack room. |
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| Dusted and swept out trailer (forgot the before pic, sorry. Basically it just had lots of hay dust and fine manure remnants). |
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My 8 (turning 9) year old English shadow Shepherd Bourke. He's kind of taken a back burner in the last four years, but is now being once again tortured spoiled with regular baths and constant grooming. I imagine he'll be a bit more a feature in my blog in the foreseeable future. So everyone, meet Bourke! |
That's it. Spring cleaning galore. I've also ended up with a nice list of things for sale, which are featured on my next post here:
http://adventuresincoltstarting.blogspot.com/2013/09/tack-for-sale.html
Happy trails and swooshing tails!
•Renee•
Holy organization bat man!
ReplyDeleteoooh buy stuff :)
ReplyDeleteI'll take one of the white contoured baby pads w/ black piping!!
ReplyDeleteEmail me so I know what your PayPal email is and let me know what shipping/total cost will be!
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DeleteMy friend Amy wants the $50 heavy weight blanket. She cant remember her password to comment so send her a paypal invoice at atbarr3@yahoo.com :)
ReplyDeleteWill do. Thanks.
DeleteLoved seeing all this stuff!(drool). I'm getting a horse of my own in the near future. Well, actually, I'm still in the process of saving up money but you can imagine how excited I was when I realized that you are having a super tack yard/blog sale. I'm only thirteen, though. It was nice finding your blog though and I would love to follow. I, too, am a horse blogger.
ReplyDeleteI read your bio and realized that I'm just like you were at that age(crazy about horses and wanting one so bad). I haven't ridden yet. Nobody in my area teaches English riding. :( :( Like i said in my other comment, I am saving for a horse of my own and love following horse bloggers to read more about the horse world, make friends, and possibly even get insight to how it is owning horses. Glad I found your blog.
ReplyDeleteWow! Love the organization. Not in need of any of your items but I will share a link to this post on my blog tomorrow :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Hillary.
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