25/10/2025
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” - Bruce Lee
Tree is just now starting to put on her Fall dress with just a smidge of yellow leaves starting to appear. Beautiful temperatures this week was our gift. Spread the word and please help find a few more great volunteers and riders to join the fun. We have space both days. Please - Please - let me know if you will not be able to come and help so I can properly schedule. Thanks.
It is so nice doing chores without the heat. Sunday - after chores - I got Liber-T out for a ride. She was asking me for a ride all last week, but with all the rain, I didn’t want to take a chance she’d slip in the wet. So, today we got out and played on the home trail. Have to do some work to get it back in shape after last week’s rain. Played in the arena with freestyle touch it. Nice workout. Monday we got another 50 bales of hay delivered. Although we didn’t have to stack it ourselves, we did have to clean up the scrap and take care of usual chores. Tuesday was beautiful and the temperature was just right. Everleigh, Karen and Margie arrived to get Spirit and Liber-T ready. Everleigh had Spirit and Karen played with Liber-T. Everleigh played the ground games with Spirit as this was only the 2nd time she’s played with her. Karen played the games with Liber-T at obstacles. Nice work. Both mounted up. Everleigh’s first time on Spirit and worked on the obstacles mounted. This gives the riders and horses tasks to accomplish. Natalie arrived and mounted up on Liber-T. She worked on shape puzzle and is doing it more easily each week. They played with bean bags and the peg shape puzzle as well as practicing walk on and whoa at obstacles. They went over the hill, logs, stopped in the hoop and did 2 trail rides with Everleigh on Spirit joining the fun. Margie had a chance to hop on Liber-T before Cayden arrived and enjoyed doing some obstacle work with her. Cayden arrived and took Liber-T around the obstacles on line - over hill, onto tire, over logs, to various targets and stopping in the hoop. Mounted up, he and Everleigh rode various obstacles. They worked on a flower pattern, over the hill, logs, stop in hoop, cavaletti, each one taking turns on which obstacle to do next. Cayden did a little trotting at the end before enjoying a leap frog trail ride with Everleigh on Spirit. He then had to cuddle with Gracie and Dakota before heading out. Wednesday morning was drizzly and gave just enough to make surface slippery. AND - got office work to do in the afternoon. Thursday, however, was wonderful and I took Liber-T out for a nice workout. Saturday Lisa, Saanvi and Smitha arrived to get things rolling. We got Liber-T and Spirit out. Smitha and Saanvi played with Liber-T and Lisa played with Spirit. Oliver arrived and was ready to go. He reviewed and played his ground games with Liber-T and mounted up to review riding skills. He did the best focus for jousting he’s ever done and even though it’s a kid’s game, he still enjoyed playing with the toy food. It was great. So - off they went on a trail ride with him leading and Lisa on Spirit following. Woodrow arrived and was ready to go on Spirit. He did his riding positions with good posture. He also enjoyed playing with the toy food while working to practice walk on and whoa. Then we met Kaleb who was here for the first time. Craig came to help for this first ride. He mounted up on Liber-T and did really well finding his balance while she walked the arena. He dismounted and admitted he was tired. Ahhh - I was successful as that’s my job to get folks to working their bodies. It was a very nice first ride. He then wanted to meet Dakota and Gracie, so the gals met him at the barn and brought the girls out for a meet and greet. Finally, putting Liber-T and Spirit up and feeding the grain. Thank you everyone.
Our horses are crucial in our mission to provide therapeutic services to our clients and to keep them healthy and happy. AND - Although hay is in for the year, we will need to purchase more again next fall - so there is always a Hay Fundraiser. Thank you to those who have donated in the past. We purchase enough each fall for the year so we can get consistent quality hay. The best time to purchase is at the end of summer when prices are lowest and the hay is freshest, so that’s when we do it. I don’t know what this year will bring, but we plan for $25 for 1 bale of hay. You can donate through Zelle to stableinfl@aol.com or send a check. PayPal works through our “Donate” button, but they do charge a processing fee of almost 3%, so less than what you donated comes to us. You can make a donation any time and receive dollar for dollar tax credit on your AZ State taxes for 2025. Again, the best way is with a check or through Zelle and stableinfl@aol.com. We are an Arizona Qualified Charitable Organization (QCO) and a donation will reduce your AZ State Taxes. Use QCO Code 22306 on Form 321 to receive a tax credit on your AZ State taxes - for 2025 up to $470 for a single person and $938 for couples. For all you Fry’s VIP shoppers, please sign up at Fry’s Rewards choosing Code and Fry’s will donate to Stable Influence. We get almost $400/year from Kroger each year. Shopping on the web? Go through iGive.com or GoodShop.com e-malls, choose to support Stable Influence through your on-line purchases. The e-mall merchants will donate a percentage of the purchases to us. You still get great prices, and we get a bonus. It’s a Win Win. THANKS!
The loan we had to get for a new car for Stable Influence is shrinking. But, it’s still not fully funded. So - Fundraiser - A car for Stable Influence is still out there. Anything you can donate will be much appreciated. You can donate through “Zelle” to our e-mail address - stableinfl@aol.com. A big thank you to those who have made donations.
