Because I love it!

I have a new J-O-B! When you hear what it is you might want to stutter for minute then ask WHY? That's okay, you won't be the first to react that way.
I took a job at a horse ranch...shoveling horse crap. I mean...that's not all I do, but that's mostly what I do. I also feed the horses bright and early in the morning and then after shoveling copious amounts of crap from stalls I get to turn out the horses. So, why you ask. Well, because I love it. It's kind of a long story how it came about. Really, the story probably starts back when I was in high school and my friend Coy would take me horse back ridding on Sunday afternoons and I would go to 24th of July rodeos and when I watched my bff Marcie crowned Miss Alamosa Round-up. One Christmas my parents got us a Shetland Pony. She was naughty and we didn't have her for long, but I've always loved horses. They are so powerful and beautiful and graceful. This summer I made a horse painting for my vision board (the vision board I haven't made yet) and I set an intention (that's the new cool thing to do right? Set intentions.) to have my own horse by the time I'm 40, that's one year from tomorrow by the way! So, there's some back story. Fast-forward to September of this year. A lady, Kathy, whom I knew of but, didn't know, posted on a Facebook group that she was look for volunteers for the grand opening of the Equestrian Center that she was opening. I thought it might be fun to check out so I volunteered myself and my big girls. We went to the grand opening and I manned a bouncy house. While standing at the bouncy house telling the children "No, wait, only 6 at a time." My friend Nicole came over to chat. I mentioned that something about the place "was feeding my soul" (I'm very dramatic like that sometimes). Later, that evening while having some dinner with my friend Heather I told her, I think I'm going to ask them for a job. A job doing what, I had no idea. I knew nothing about working on a horse ranch.
I went home and got on their web site and filled out an on line application. Then I waited. What you have to now about me is I'm not typically the most confidant person in the world. Usually, if I didn't hear back about something like that I would of just assumed they didn't need me or want me and I would have moved on, but not this time. After about a week I sent the owner, Kathy, a PM on Facebook and asked if she had seen my application and told her that I was very interested in talking to her. Seriously people, I didn't need a job. In fact, a job is probably the last thing I needed. I have a needy 4 year old. I'm homeschooling 3 kids. All 6 of my kids are in 1,000,000 different activities. I have no time for a job, but I wanted this. Kathy said she hadn't had a chance to look at the applications but I could come in and we could chat. So, I came in and we chatted. Kathy is so great and so easy to talk to and we had a great conversation about what things they were looking for and what things I was hoping for. They needed an office assistant and a mucker, AKA horse crap shoveler. I was hoping to just pet horses and brush houses and ride horses; they didn't need someone for that. I knew I didn't want an office job so I said I'd like to try mucking, and here I am. I wake up before the sun; if you know me at all you know how miraculous that alone is. I'm at work between 6:30 and 7:00 in the morning, in the freezing cold, something that I hate even more than getting up early, and I seriously love it. The people are amazing, however, I don't see them much. Most of my time is spent completely alone, except for the horses, and it's completely quite, except for the horses. As a homeschooling mom with 6 kids I don't get a lot of alone/quite time, and apparently I've needed it. When I do see the people though they are so nice and supportive and just great people. There is just something about the ranch, it does feed my soul.