CTP Equestrian

**Edit, position filled!**

ISO someone to feed this adorable face as well as his friends on Monday mornings! Could provide additional shifts but Monday mornings first priority. Ideally 7:00am start. Proper pay for an experienced horse person, a few other opportunities (groom/exercise rider depending on experience) could be available if interested but not required. Call or text 814-574-9085, I often miss messages and comments.

ISO someone to feed this adorable face as well as his friends on Monday mornings! Could provide additional shifts but Monday mornings first priority. Ideally 7:00am start. Proper pay for an experienced horse person, a few other opportunities (groom/exercise rider depending on experience) could be available if interested but not required. Call or text 814-574-9085, I often miss fb messages and comments.

Yesterday these three were beautifully lined up under the tree for a good morning picture, and promptly showed their true colors when I pulled my phone out…
Donnie: hi mom hi mom hi mom hi mom hi mom hi mom hi mom hi hi hi look at me!!!! 🤩
Artie: yawn, mom and her pictures again 🙄
Lionel: I’m new here, and destined to be famous…no paparazzi please 😎

Hurry and eat before it’s covered in ❄️!

Join our team!! CTP Equestrian in State College, PA is hiring asap for a part time barn hand. Horse handling experience required, riding not required but could be added to the shifts for the right person. Ideal shifts Sun PM, Mon AM and PM, Wed PM. Possible wiggle room, so it’s not a deal breaker if those shifts don’t work.

Competitive pay, flexible hours, friendly and low key barn atmosphere. 5-6 horses through the winter, this is as easy as a barn job can get!!

We are going into 2023 with lots of growth plans so this could definitely turn into much more than a barn hand role, but would be happy to leave it as a part time role going into the new year as well.

Contact Carla 814-574-9085!

We had a great time at the State College Series USEF Level 2 Jumper Shows! We are so lucky to have this series so close to home. Kaylyn and Geeman learned a lot in week one at the State College Classic, and went back to improve at the Lion Country Show this week. She has officially done her first 1.10m class 🐎 and looking forward to the Maryland Horse Trials this weekend!

Thank you to Kristen for helping set her warm up jump while I was holding my sleeping babe, and for hosting a great show!

Happy to be back in my happy place some this week!!

“And pride in one detail spills over into pride about other details, until it creates a mindset, a way of being.”

More on the German phrase that says “riding is only learned by sweeping.”

I remember an example of this one night, about 40 years ago, when I was spending a month at Walter Christensen’s dressage training stable, Stal Tasdorf, in Tasdorf, Germany. (photo of Walter teaching)

Walter’s main barn had a cobblestone type of floor, hard to keep clean because of all the indentations, and in various corners were funny little Hansel and Gretel type brooms, straight handles with what looked like a bunch of twigs wired to one end.

Everyone had left, all the working students, all the riders, and here was the master, then coach of the Swedish Olympic dressage team, vigorously giving the aisle one last cleanup before turning out the lights.

In the great scheme of things, why would it matter one iota whether the aisle was immaculate? Early next morning, when all the horses were being fed, hay and straw would get spilled all around, and who was going to see that floor in the middle of the night?

But that’s not the point, is it? And for those who do see the point, they probably would have been at one end of the broom. And for those who can’t grasp why it mattered to Walter, they’d have left it as it was.

To what extent can pride in a way of doing things be taught? Because that’s what’s at play here, I think.

And pride in one detail spills over into pride about other details, until it creates a mindset, a way of being. Or not---And in that way, sweeping teaches riding, tenuous as the connection might seem.

Last carrots to these two until spring! They are off to Aiken with to join the fun at Fox Hill Eventing. I’ll be cooking this baby a bit longer, and stalking every minute of their adventures!

Merry Christmas everyone!! After a few detours, 2021 has given us a blessing in a new way… we are thrilled to be welcoming a two-legged family member in March of 2022! A little JP is due St Patrick’s Day 🍀 Cheers to a new chapter and we hope everyone out there rings in the New Year filled with hope and excitement! 🥂 🎄