September 2, 2010

Lucky horseshoe

Today was a day that I fully took to heart “An attitude of Gratitude”

I live in Mesa, AZ and I go down Main street sometimes to get home.  Although it is not a freeway, it is three lanes wide on each side.  It gets a lot of traffic. However, there is no sidewalks on the part that goes West towards Apache Junction.  There is hardly any shoulder and no bike lane leaving very little room for error.

On the way home I say a man in a wheelchair  pulled off the side of the road as cars were going by.  I watched him in my mirror  and as soon as the cars passed, he was going down the main street backwards so he could see the cars coming at him.  As soon as a car got close, he would wheel himself off the road and out of Harms way.

From a horse accident a number of years ago, I walk with a very bad limp and sometimes it is painful, but I can walk.  My car is getting older, but I have a car, and one that I love to drive.  I do not have my own home at the moment but I do have a very  comfy bed to lay my head on at night.

I remember what it was like to be in a wheel chair. After my accident I spent a year in one, and was never suppose to walk again.  But I do, and sometimes, I can still really hoof it.

I had to wonder, what he was so determined to go see or was he just finding a way to get home.  I was trying to turn around to see if there was someway I could help, when a police car pulled up behind him.
Knot-a-Tail's Lucky Horse hair bracelet from  Knot-A-Tail

Today, I think it is me with the “lucky horse shoe”.

I went home and put on one of our Lucky Horse shoe bracelets,  just to remind myself of everything I have.

Remember, Whinny, like there is no tomorrow.   Things change fast.
WHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY!!


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Love Roberta

Roberta Edstrom
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August 25, 2010

The wheelbarrow

I know it has happened to all of us at one time or another.   I know that it has happened to me a lot over the years.   I clean out one stall, head for the next and think I can just put one more pitch fork of manure on top.  Just one more.   And if that one stays, I just might try one more.  I can do it, just one more.

Now it is past  full to the brim and  I may have hit the tipping point.  The point of no return.  I  know I have reached it when I first notice that the tire is starting to look a little pudgy on the bottom.  But I think “Man, I don’t have time for this.   I can make it.”

Daily Oats Wheel Barrel

Come on now, you have done this a time or two.  You know what comes next.  You  reach for the wooden handles, tighten your muscles, grit your teeth,  put that look of “I think I  can” on your face  and with all  your might you start to raise it up.

Now you think you almost have it completely  balanced in your hands  so  you lean into it and amazingly it starts to move.  But the wheelbarrow has another idea. YES, you are so correct,

IT TIPS OVER!

And everyone knows, once that wheelbarrow starts to tip, it  going OVER!  The crap spills everywhere and  now you get to clean up the entire mess all over again.

Does this seem a little like your life at the moment?

Is your emotional wheelbarrow so full of crap that every time you think you have enough  strength left in you to reach down, grab the handles of your life one more time, and the moment you lean into it, you find yourself cleaning up even more crap then you started with?

Well, here is my question for the day.

What are you loading in your wheelbarrow?

Is it just a load of all the shit that life has been handing you or have you been finding things in your life that you enjoy to add in the mix to lighten the  load?

If everything in your life’s wheelbarrow is full of negative emotions, fear, anger, rage even, pain, hurt and even dispear then empty it out and put some of the good stuff in.   Find your joy. Try to remember  your  “Life’s Bliss”.  Try remembering just who you are inside and allow some of you to resurface.

Life is not meant to have an entire wheelbarrow full of shit all the time.  It is meant to Have, Be and DO all the good stuff, to live the good life.    Now don’t cheat, the good stuff, can not come from someone else’s stall either, it has to come from your own. No one knows you well enough to ever make you happy.  That can only come from you.

Some of mine are

  • Reading a good book on a rainy afternoon when I should be working
  • Sipping hot tea with just a touch of  honey and lemon, by myself in  complete silence looking out the window and watching the birds all the rest of the wildlife that shows up.  I love the surprise.
  • Sitting in a clean barn on a fresh bale of hay, enjoying the sounds and smell that fill the air.
  • Listening for the  sweetness of a morning nicker.
  • I love the feel of a cool morning breeze on my face, especially on the end of my nose.
  • I watch for puffs of warm air come from a horse’s nostrils on a cold morning.
  • Reading loving comments  from friends of Daily Oats.

Simple, but as I got older, I learned it is so often the total enjoyment of the simple, daily things in my life, that leave me so full of love and joy that I never hit the tipping point in my life anymore.  And trust me, or ask my family, I used to be tipping my emotional wheel barrel what seemed like an hourly affair.

I filled  it with every negative thought possible.  I was just a  negative person.  I could easy fill that wheelbarrow up so high, and then think I could more it to a better place.  That just never happens.  I  was  cleaning up more manure all day long than I every thought possible.  Sometimes, if I could not move that darn wheelbarrow my myself, with my own pity party, I would ask someone else to help me.  Now there is two of us cleaning up MY shit.   Isn’t that nice to do to a friend or family member?

My point is this: if you don’t want to continue dealing with a lot of crap in your life, find all the little things you used to enjoy and start doing them again.  Fill your wheelbarrow with the good stuff, and you will see your life change.  If you do not like where you are at, you have to make a move, so move to the good stuff.

Find the joy.

If nothing else, remember how great it feels when you first hear the morning whinny  and don’t overload your wheelbarrow to the tipping point.

Ready to change your life and “Live “ the Whinny!

Greet the world like your horse greets you, as if there is no tomorrow.

Let it all go and just be the WHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY!!

Daily Oats: Food for the Horse lover’s soul

Love Roberta

Roberta Edstrom
CEO
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August 23, 2010

Horses are the language of the soul

I beleive a horse speaks directly into our soul, instantly bypassing, beyond the everyday suffering and pain of human endurance, and migrate directly into our beating hearts.

We, horse lovers, both feeling that wisdom and holding it close, perceive their beauty, their trust, their unconditional love as on of our greatest life’s treasures.

Within a horse’s open hearts, we allow ourselves to gather the love we have stuffed beneath the surface, all the passion of our unfulfilled dreams and all of our “so called” forbidden emotions to finally allow them to surface.

Bringing forth, what we have always had within us, the ability to offer love with nothing in return but finding more than we ever expected, especially from within ourselves, to experience within a lifetime.

We have the greatness for the EXPANSION of our hearts and soul into the purest  love mankind can offer, UNCONDITIONAL, and all captured with a horse’s heart.

It becomes the language of the horse lover’s soul and the hoof beats on their heart.

August 10, 2010

Stable relationships

For me, this one is the longest training program that I have ever been involved in.

How to keep your stable neat and tidy.

I have a wonderful friend that I met back in the spring of  1969.   Well, that sure dates me.   But from the moment I meet her,  I could see that her horses were her number one priority in her life.   I have seen that woman, even at the age of 60 plus, rise early every morning, muck out the stalls,  wash out the water buckets,  measure the feed for every horse, clean out any left over hay, clean every hoof, brush every horse, hang up every piece of tack,  put away every brush and before she left the barn, the aisle way, every if they were dirt floors, leave it clean enough to eat off of.  It was first ranked and then a broom used to add one finale touch of elaborate elegance.

I am not kidding, she picks up every little piece of hay, sweeps around every stall door and then ranks it to a welcoming garden of perfection for all visitors to see.

Trust me, you have never seen anything like it.

Her barns are always welcoming, warm, neat, tidy and act as the ultimate opening to any horse lovers conversation ” Oh my gosh, what a clean barn!”

It has always been just who she is, and if you are close to her at all,  you know that you can not hurry her though her daily routine, or get her to change it in any way.   She puts great value on how she leaves her chores done and has carried that forward for the last 40 plus years of her life.  It has become an intimate part of her life.

Personally, you may think sweeping and ranking the barn floor may be a little extreme, but to tell you the truth I admire her for it.  Forty years of total dedication  to the horse’s in her life, no matter what anyone thinks about the way she does it has never altered her course.  She never sways, never alters,  and  most of all, no matter, what she never gives up.  She leaves the barn only when perfection is accomplished.

At this moment, I want her to give me some of that all, no matter what attitude.

I am fifty plus and I do not have such “Stable Relationships” in my life.  I still get swayed by what others say about my life, especially when they are close to my heart.

At the first signs of trouble, I forget to sweep and rake the floors to clean up any left over  garbage from the day before.

I recently went to see family, and I left a lot of hay and crap  in the aisle from both  me  and others without cleaning it up before I left.  In fact, subconsciously, I believed that someone else should clean it up  for me.  Now the crap is piling a little higher everyday just because I gave my power away to take care and develop my relationships by leaving the mess for  someone else to clean up and no less to clean up their way.  Then,  they do it their way, I get mad.  How funny.

Family, in fact, any relationship can be like an unattended stall and one morning you “suddenly” realize that you have a lot of extremely hard work to do to get them healthy again.

Another words you  might just have to shovel a lot of shit to get it back to where it should be.

Well, I am off to grab a shovel, find a wheel barrel and start cleaning a few stalls this morning and once I get them cleaned, I am going to dedicate myself to keeping them that way making sure before I leave the barn to take one last look to make sure the aisle is swept clean and ranked to perfection.

When I get my own self-righteousness, my temper and my  ego out of the way, my heart is more open to love and complete understanding, no matter what.  I just have to remember that when they are the closest to my heart.

So here is to keeping my stable, neat and tidy.

By the way,  thanks Ginger for the life lesson.

Whinny’s.

Please let me know if you have  any stall cleaning to do  today.  I would love to know how you are doing.

Love Roberta

July 14, 2010

The feel good foal

I just can not help myself with this one.  It is how I feel today.

 You are the right person, this is the right time, you’ve paid your dues, you’re thinking the right thoughts, you’re doing the right things, and this very moment, you are exactly where you’re supposed to be… poised for the happiest time of your life.

Whinny’s  Roberta

Hope this  lifts your spirits.

July 12, 2010

The #1 rule that I learned from John Lyons

I love reading all of John Lyons books, magazines and articles.

I think horse training started to take on new meaning with his gentling methods. Backyard horse man took on training and got results that they never dreamed was possible.

One of the greatest thing that I learned was where his nose goes, the rest follows. Easy enough, but when you first start to learn about John’s theories you have to keep reminding yourselves about which end you want to get moving.

I love to work with a horse when they first start learning to watch the handler. You can see that they are thinking, they start to get very active in their responses. I ofter wonder if they are having as much fun as I am. This theory about where ever their nose goes, the body will follow is the very thing I need in my own life.

Let me explain.

I got up late, rushed, worried about not getting everything done, got a little cussy while  all morning as things were not at all going my way.   The day started with handling a few customer complaints,  a wrong order, I even got the wrong coffee order at Starbucks, what could be worse than that.   It seemed like a million little things were on my shoulders and none of them would come off.   As John Wayne would say, I was burning daylight and a  lot of it without  getting any thing done. Meanwhile, after heading for the post office,  I need just a few items from the store, so I thought I would stop to pick them up.

That should take me only a few minutes and I would be back on the road. I had a pile on my desk that really needed me but I certainly thought I had time to stop at WalMart.

Of course, at that moment,  the only parking spot was out across the back forty.  I hurried up grabbed a cart, I  picked up a few grocers,  moaned about the things that I couldn’t find  on my list,  and at the last moment, I picked up some of their flavored water that has Zero sugar, zero calories, zero everything and in record time, I was  headed for the self service check out.

Nothing would scan, in fact the water wouldn’t register at all.  I was about to leave everything at the check out and leave when an older customer service gal saw me having  problems and came over to assist me.   She tried over and over again to get the bottles of water to scan, but nothing.  Finally she said, ” I got this” and  she started  to input all those UPC in my hand.  So there I stood, frustrated, because I had bought these many times before and they were in their system, but not now. How can they just disappear?

I am at this check-out for about 25 minutes now.

The  lady gets all done and only one of them comes up on my slip.  She had done  the rest wrong.
She closes out my order and takes me, my cart and all my items up  to her register  and starts again. I am continually telling her that it is alright, lets just forget about it an I will be on my way.

“No, No she says, we will get this taken care of.”

Minutes pass, and more and more and more and more’ and my frustration builds and builds and builds and at this point, I am not nice any more.

Forty-five minutes into this checkout for eight bottles of water, when  I hear a little voice in side of me say “where the nose goes, the body will follow.”

At that moment I realize that I had  forgot the basic of who I am. I know, with out a doubt that I am the creator of my day, my world, my life. What is in my world, I put there. It is the Law of Attraction at its finest. After all it is the law and it treats everyone the same.  Good or bad, frustrated or not, I put it there. “Where my mind goes, my day will follow.”

My hurry-up, getting a little pissy,  frustrated, what is wrong with you and your store, everything is going wrong attitude in my thinking was creating just that and just to keep granting my wishes, it keep giving me more to be frustrated about. I let me nose go in so the wrong direction. In an instant I thanked the lady for all hard work and her thoughtfulness. I told her that I appreciated her determination to make sure that I had all the items that I needed. I apologized for my short temper. I shear, within seconds that I was all done and checked out.

I headed for the back forty where my care was parked, and with every step I found gratitude for the extra exercise. When I got to the car, I put my groceries in the front seat along side of me and I just sat there until I know that I had completely changed my attitude. The entire time, I heard John Lyons keep saying, Where that nose goes, the body will follow.

I had let me thoughts get negative, and without even realizing it, I had turned into one of those people at the check out that you don’t like to talk to because they about to complain about every thing. My Nose was really way out of line.

So here is a round pen reminder, Keep your nose going in the right direction of your life goals.   Keep your thoughts focused on the life you want to create and everything will just fall in line.

And keep reminding yourself  WHERE THE NOSE GOES, THE BODY WILL FOLLOW.
Ready to change your life and “Live “ the Whinny!

Greet the world like your horse greets you, as if there is no tomorrow.

Let it all go and just be the WHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY!!

Daily Oats: Food for the Horse lover’s soul

Love Roberta

Roberta Edstrom
CEO
Knot-A-Tail

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July 5, 2010

Training books: how many is enough?

Just my thought for today:

Perhaps our greatest Fear is not that we might never find love, but that we will. For once we discover that we are loved, we will have to open our hearts and find a way within ourselves to love them back.

Pretty scary!

Do you like to read? Perhaps training books, horse magazines, or even watch horse videos?

I do to.  For more than the last half of a century, I have been reading some sort of horse books.
Polly's Oats Roberta Edstrom most favorite book

In fact, I have always loved reading anything about horses.  My first horse book, which I still have in safe keeping, was a book called, Polly’s Oats.

It was copyrighted in 1951 and I have kept it with me on all of my travels. It is a story of an outcast, unloved, unwanted that had a great heart.   It always reminds me that some of the greatest miracles happen in the most unexpected ways.

As you can see  the book  is a little worse for wear.

Right now, I am reading a book by Frank Bell: The horse Whisperer called The horses that touched my heart. The book was a gift from a good Facebook friend that thought I might enjoy it.   I have to admit, when I get to the end of a chapter, I want to see what is going to happen next.

I think that everyone takes a turn in their life when they want to just know more about the BIG stuff in our lives. Knowing more on who they really are would be one of the BIG ones.

The Big stuff is when  a person starts really looking at their dreams, their life hopes, their love for those around them, their life.   Not a look at regrets but a point where they just want to really start to learn who what they are made of and why they are here.

For some this comes earlier than others, however for me, it has come a lot later.    After all, who has time to look at themselves when taking care of a family, raising children and a barn full of horses.

My sister asked me, not to long ago: How many books do you need to read before you get it?    Now, after endless books, and hours of study, asking questions and taking a close look at myself, I think I am at a point that  could possible be considered the 1 st grade.

Let me show you the pile of books on my night table.

Books on my deskJust to let you know, I am in the middle of reading and studying all of them some I am even on my second reading.

This is not all of them, just the current ones but every new turn of the page seems to bring me into a new reality of who really is in my heart and for some reason it always seems to surprise me.

It is surprising to find out that I am far more capable than I think I am. It is surprised me when I learned that although I love to be spoiled and have others look after me, I can do a far better job by myself.

It surprised me when I learned that I am the only person that really knows me and really wants even more than what is  best for me. It even surprised me when I learned that it was possible for me to learn how to love myself.

I have hit the point that they call: I am absolutely sure, beyond being positive, with out any doubts,  that I know, that I don’t know.

A close friend recently told me, “If you know that and can admit that you are there, you are at the point of wisdom.

After what already seems like a long journey, I still have a heart full of dreams left to bring into reality and some  fears left to override due to bad thinking habits that I need to clear the cob webs out of the way.

I just wanted to let you know, that no matter where you are in this life, what dreams you may have, no matter what your age, no matter what has happened in the past, you are never truly alone on this journey.  You will always have you and that is far more than enough. It is far more than most of us will ever discover. The best part is, that once you realize that one thing, you can never fail at anything ever again.

Your answer, the one that you have been  seeking, may just be in the very  next spot that you look so just make sure that you keep on looking.

Life is the ultimate treasure hunt where we get to discover the greatest treasure to all mankind:                   …….    Our self!

and you can quote me on that.

Just livin’ for the WHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY!!

Daily Oats: Food for the Horse lover’s soul

Love Roberta

Roberta Edstrom
CEO

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June 16, 2010

Ground rules

THREE  SIMPLE RULES:

If you don’t go after what you want, you will never
have it.

If you don’t ask, the answer will always be no.

If you don’t step forward, you will always be in the same place.

PS: don’t live you life being ground-tied to all your old beliefs.  There is a perfect life waiting just for you.

Saddle-up all you horse lovers.  It’s  time to ride!

John Wayne: saddle-up
Whinny’s Roberta

It is your GRIT for your own life and your own dreams that will make it just livin’ or living beyond your wildest dreams.

From the Duke himself:

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

June 15, 2010

Which riding style or equestrian discipline is right for you?

I wonder if I counted just how many different riding discipline there actually are in the world of horses how many I would find that I don’t even know about.  There certainly are lots  riding disciplines to choose from Dressage, Show Jumping, Cross-Country, Eventing, Rodeo and Barrel Racing through to Hacking, Trail Riding, Hunter,  Western Riding, competitive trail riding to my favorite, pleasure driving.   Loads of horse loving enthusiast often  try a variety of them while  others seem to endless excel in just  one or two.  Such as nine-time FEI World Cup Dressage Champion and multiple Dressage Olympic Gold medalist Anky Van Grunsvan  who now loves to ride and show reining horse.

I believe there is a reason that they have named it riding “Disciplines.”

We all train both ourselves and our horses as far as we want to go  in our life from the point of just being able to ride down a trail or become a world champion.

Discipline

I was given this quote the other day by a very dear freind.

“Disciple is the difference between what we want right now and what we want most in our life.”

(In fact I have it now on my desk in my inspirational spiral notebook and I have not changed it all week.)

Another words it is the difference between that ice cream and my goal weight,  the difference between seeing the new Karate kid and  finishing a new campaign to increase sales on the Knot-A-Tail web site, or even going out to dinner and visiting with my buddy Carl, or completing the next chapter in learning CSS programing so I can improve our site for our customers.

Not unlike many others, there are many things in my life that I have wanted to achieve but I always seem to find a way to stick them in the back stall of my barn where no one every cleans anymore.

You know which one I am talking about, don’t pretend you don’t.

The one where all the tack that needs repair is hanging, that last warn-out clippers are  that needs to be sharpened and clean is just sitting on a shelf,  where last year’s horse blankets that the horse ripped last winter are laying on the floor, Ya  that stall.  Everyone has one.

Maybe it also has the book you have always wanted to write, that class you wanted to take, school you want to finish, the degree you wanted to earn, the perfect job you have always dreamed about or  that business idea that has been floating around in you head  for the last few years but you have not taken that first step forward to those GREAT true hearts desires.  The true “GREATS” of our lives.

Just like riding, Self discipline is a skill and once you get to grips with it, it can alter  your life.  Thank about it, here is what you can gain just by applying some “riding” disciples to your own life. Imagine if you harnessed this power to change different aspects of your life.

You could have the power of all the horse you have dreamed about riding.

  • increased self-value and self esteem
  • A better life for you and your family
  • hope
  • the ” buck all the want  critter, I am going to ride you all the way”  ride of your life  in  reaching  all of your  life’s “  TO THE STARS” dream goals

What good would self discipline have in your life?

What if you could practice self discipline in everything you do? How would your life change? Would it change? Think of these questions for a moment.

Some of the areas in your life you could change might be;

  • The amount of time spent with the kids, besides just “in the barn time”
  • Your weight
  • Your fitness
  • The tidiness of your office and update more than just the horse record
  • The cleanliness of your house and not just the barn.
  • Fixing all the broken things in your house  and barn (fix that shelf once and for all)
  • The amount of time spent watching TV
  • Watching what you eat
  • Fasting for one day per week
  • Having a cold shower every morning
  • Get your finances sorted out
  • Write those letters you’ve been meaning to write
  • Make the phone calls you’ve been meaning to make
  • Organize your life
  • Getting up early to be thankful of all the things you have
  • Ride past the BUCK

Ok, all you horse lovers.  I beleive we are the best of the best with HUGE hearts and endless dreams.
So, right now,  Yes right now is the time to SADDLE-UP and start riding the life you have always dreamed.

And I am here to keep reminding you of that.

So cinch-up tight, get your riding boots on, add a pair of spurs if you need to and let’s get going.
Pick, just one thing today to apply a  disciple to and keep riding that horse until the damn thing stops BUCKIN’!
Then head out to the corral and grab another.

After all, this is the FUN part of life,

Ridin’ past all  the BUCKS’,   then our life truly begins.

Most important, remember to share the whinny besides with just the herd of horses y0u own, there is an infinite supply.
……………………………..Change a life and “Share “ the Whinny!

I’m just livin’ for the WHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY!!

Daily Oats: Food for the Horse lover’s soul

Love Roberta

Roberta Edstrom
CEO

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June 5, 2010

The horseman’s handshake

My thought for the day.

There is nothing in this life, good or bad, happy or unhappy,  broke or abundant that we first did not agree to in our own minds.

We put out our hand and shook in agreement on the fact that we would accept that for ourselves.

What did you agree to yesterday that is showing up in your life today?

We spend hours, that easy  turn into years, training our horses so we can  have them preform the exact way that we want them to, in whatever discipline  that we desire.   Think of what it would be like if we spent just a fraction of that time retraining our own minds.

We all know that the horse world has a  reality all of it’s own.  How many times have you pissed someone off and they have been pissed off for life.

Does any of  these fit you?

  • Loner
  • independent to the point you do not let others in your life.
  • love horses more than people
  • financially broke.
  • spiritual drained
  • lonely
  • feeling unlovable

I know a number of them fit me, but that is not how I want my life to be.  The hardest part is to realize that most of it was learned behavior that was not even mine, hand-me-down generational crap that should be shoveled into the  manure pile long ago.

Quick story;

I  had just finished  giving a halter lesson to a weanling, and I sat down on an upside down water tank to let the colt have some fresh spring grass.  I sat and watched while Dickens, the colt,  munched away.

He  would look over his shoulder, look directly at me, and then took a few steps backwards, and then go back  to eating.  Then again he looked over his shoulder looked at me and took two steps backward  right towards me and then  went back to eating.  As he was just a few feet from me, he let me have it with both hind feet. That little Dickens knock me head over heels off the back of that water tank.

I thought it was the oddest thing, him backing up the entire 20 feet in this manner, but it dawned on me just this morning, that he had learned that from his mother.  I had watched  her do it a number of times to the herd.  She would pick out one and just start backing up until she was in striking range or they moved.

My point is, that was never that colts idea.  He had seen his mother do it and was just trying it on me.   It was a hand-me-down generational behavior.  I should have been so smart as  the rest of the head and  get out of the way.

Well,  just think about that one today.

What have you been handed-down that you have agreed  without question that would be perfectly acceptable in your own life?   What have you given your handshake to in total agreement?

How about:

  • I have to work hard for my money
  • I never get ahead
  • Nothing every works out for me
  • I never have enough time

Want change?  That is simple, find a new agreement and start with re-training some of your hand-me-down generational thinking.

Here is a whinny to making the manure pile a little bit bigger today.  Just think of it as re-training all of those naughty colts.

Most important, remember to share the whinny besides  with just the herd of horses your own, there is an infinite supply.
……………………………..Change a life and “Share “ the Whinny!


I’m just livin’ for the WHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY!!

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