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#1 ·
Well its mostly about the rescue right now since i dont really have my babies here. but since this is gonna be a 3 yr thing i figure i may as well just do a journal thing for it! haha

Anyways..........

So today was my second day volunteering at the horse rescue here on Oahu. its the first equine rescue ever established for the islands.

Yesterday was pretty normal, i fed, groomed and mucked out the "petting zoo" animal pens, which includes 2 shetlands(dam and 2 yr old colt) 2 donkeys, a POA, one hog and about 10 goats.

One of the other volunteers offered to help me muck so while i was with the donkeys she went into the Shetlands pen, and forgot to clip the chain...needless to say the two houdinis broke out and i had to chase them both down. So after i got them back the barn manager (who was watching me) was apparently impressed with how i handled getting the shetlands back and calming down the other horses so she offered to let me work with her project mare *swoon* who is a 5 yr old appy mare...totally amazing horse just has some authority issues do to the previous owners abuse.
after that it calmed down and I got the other 18 horses fed and watered then locked up for the night.


Today was pretty much the same haha. i mucked out 10 stalls, 2 large pens, and three fields in under two hours (gotta be a record:-p) then she let me take out two of the rehabs and work with them in the arena, and after watching that said that i was probably a god send (hehe god send) since most of her other volunteers are mostly military spouses that just want to help out, not much experience. so she said i would probably be taking on a bigger role as handler and trainer along with her son. and fed, watered etc. dang i didnt no how much i missed all this!

But BY FAR the best part about today was when she offered to let me ride her mare Honey, in a sorting competition in August! winning haha. im soooooooooo glad i finally started here. i gotta get my horse fix in :D
 
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It's amazinhly true..the whole saying "you dont know what you got till its gone"....ell kinda haha. i DID know how much i missed my kids back home but dang. ive only been gone from the rescue for 3 days butim already chompin at the bit to go back haha. i have to go in early tomorrow to do the morning feed because Betina (barn manager) and the other saturday volunteer are taking a horse to a parade so its all meeeee. haha.

i just have to remember to take my camera out to get pics:-p
 
#19 ·
well i havnt been back to the rescue lately but i am going tomorrow....
but i just found out that my friends gelding Shodder who she had for 18 YEARS! Had to be put down the other day. i guess he got his back left leg caught up in a bunch of cable and when he tried to get out he completely degloved his leg from his hock to his hoof. so they had to euthanize him....
so i made her this to help remember him
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#23 ·
true true

theyve been crazy hectic.
trying to get in time at the rescue, go paintballing or go-kart racing, and army crap every weekend haha.
i just bought a new saddle and hopefully a new bridle and breastcollar for Charlie....and i cant even use em! ;P but ill send em home and my mom can take loads of pics with him in it all haha

how about you???
 
#24 ·
Wow that's exciting!! And yeah army stuff takes up a looot of time. I wish I knew more about it, I have a few friends in it but they don't like to talk about it and what they tell me I find hard to remember.

You going to share the pictures? :D

I've been doing alright.. just struggling to find time to get everything done. But Sky is doing great and that's what counts! Thanks for asking :)
 
#26 ·
June 23

Well today officially sucks.
Started off waking up to an email saying my leave was denied....no explination just it was denied. and that we now have to wear our Class A's on monday for the REHEARSAL for the CoC. not the real thing. the rehearsal. which is great because i was gonna pick em up on monday from the alterations shop. so i go and ask if they can get it done today and they tell me they may not have my rank so i have to come back at 130...which is fine

Then I FINALLY get the chance to go back out to the rescue and as soon as i get out there i get a call from my squad leader that my 1sg wants to talk to me about my leave and i thought "great maybe he wants me to explain why i deserve to go before hell approve it" but no. he just wanted to tell me all the different reasons why i dont deserve to go....none of which are legal reasons to deny it.

our BDE regulations is 1 pt test every 6 months. but army regulation is 1 pt test every 12 months. so the fact that my pt test doesnt expire till september 20 by army standards means that they cant really deny it if i went to IG. but oh i didnt get a 300 on my pt test so thats the only way they could really make an exception....excuse me? you have a grand total of 0 people in your company that have a 300 on their pt test...so why rag on me?
oh and i dont make enough effort to get a supervisory position at work....solrry that theres people their with more seniority that need it more. and im pretty sure i just got counselled for having to stay late to do the supes work instead of go to pt so make up your mind. pt or work.


im really tempted to go to the IG about this but with 2 years left here on my contracrt its not the best idea to get legal involved and piss off my chain of command....
so today sucks.
 
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