My husband is driving me really batty right now. Now, in his defense, he's under some stress from work and his mom is going to be having surgery. That said. AAAUUUURRRRRGH!
I have a horse that is boarded at a barn nearly an hour from my house. It costs $150 a month JUST for the gas to drive back and forth. And I'm not crazy about the kind of feed they use, so there's another $40 a month to buy my own feed, on top of the $200 a month for stall rent. Yeah, horses are expensive. Anyways, I've got some other issues with management but I won't detail all of them, it's not important to this.
So, I found a new barn. It's MUCH closer, will only cost about $80 a month in gas if I go every day (only go 4 days a week right now), and it's on my way to and from places I go, which means it's not out of hte way to stop by. The other barn is way far from anywhere I ever go and isn't "on the way" to anywhere. I met with the owner today and asked her an insane amount of questions (I'm very anal about how my horse is kept and cared for) and determined that this is a facility I want to keep my horse in. The board rate is the same, but I like the kind of feed they use, so I will be able to put him on that and save myself the extra $40 I'm spending on feed (boarding barns typically offer a feed and if you don't like it you can buy something else but they don't deduct it from your board).
So, in short, moving my horse to this barn will save us about $100 a month. Probably more since many of my trips will be on my way to or from somewhere else that I'm already going, not a special trip.
And my husband, who goes to the barn MAYBE once a month or so, is giving me trouble on this. I don't know what his deal is. He says he likes the people at the barn. Well so do I, but I'd like to see my horse without it involving a 2 hour round trip drive! He tried to say it was because of the extra vaccine my horse will need and the fees to haul him, but I have my own money that I'm going to pay for that with. And the money I have left I'm going to put in the bank account to go towards next month's board.
I'm just soooo irritated right now. He doesn't know much about horses, so the issues I am having are things he'd probably not even notice, but they are important to ME, and important to the care of my horse. But I've still patiently explained to him every problem and issue I am having, and why it's important. He said "Well what if you get to this place and decide you don't like it?" Valid question, but the fact is, when I moved into the barn I'm at now, I didn't know what questions to ask and what to look for. I'd been out of horses for a long time. I didn't see any glaring issues, so I moved him in. The past few months have gotten me back into my horsey groove, and if I'd asked more questions, I wouldn't have put him there to start with. And, if I do decide I don't like it, at least my horse is only 20 minutes away! And there's nothing to stop me from moving him to a different barn at some point in the future. I don't anticipate that though because this barn is much better managed, and the manager is almost always on site. At the other barn, they live quite a distance away and are only there in the evenings.
I'm just really frustrated. I don't know what his deal is on this.
I have a horse that is boarded at a barn nearly an hour from my house. It costs $150 a month JUST for the gas to drive back and forth. And I'm not crazy about the kind of feed they use, so there's another $40 a month to buy my own feed, on top of the $200 a month for stall rent. Yeah, horses are expensive. Anyways, I've got some other issues with management but I won't detail all of them, it's not important to this.
So, I found a new barn. It's MUCH closer, will only cost about $80 a month in gas if I go every day (only go 4 days a week right now), and it's on my way to and from places I go, which means it's not out of hte way to stop by. The other barn is way far from anywhere I ever go and isn't "on the way" to anywhere. I met with the owner today and asked her an insane amount of questions (I'm very anal about how my horse is kept and cared for) and determined that this is a facility I want to keep my horse in. The board rate is the same, but I like the kind of feed they use, so I will be able to put him on that and save myself the extra $40 I'm spending on feed (boarding barns typically offer a feed and if you don't like it you can buy something else but they don't deduct it from your board).
So, in short, moving my horse to this barn will save us about $100 a month. Probably more since many of my trips will be on my way to or from somewhere else that I'm already going, not a special trip.
And my husband, who goes to the barn MAYBE once a month or so, is giving me trouble on this. I don't know what his deal is. He says he likes the people at the barn. Well so do I, but I'd like to see my horse without it involving a 2 hour round trip drive! He tried to say it was because of the extra vaccine my horse will need and the fees to haul him, but I have my own money that I'm going to pay for that with. And the money I have left I'm going to put in the bank account to go towards next month's board.
I'm just soooo irritated right now. He doesn't know much about horses, so the issues I am having are things he'd probably not even notice, but they are important to ME, and important to the care of my horse. But I've still patiently explained to him every problem and issue I am having, and why it's important. He said "Well what if you get to this place and decide you don't like it?" Valid question, but the fact is, when I moved into the barn I'm at now, I didn't know what questions to ask and what to look for. I'd been out of horses for a long time. I didn't see any glaring issues, so I moved him in. The past few months have gotten me back into my horsey groove, and if I'd asked more questions, I wouldn't have put him there to start with. And, if I do decide I don't like it, at least my horse is only 20 minutes away! And there's nothing to stop me from moving him to a different barn at some point in the future. I don't anticipate that though because this barn is much better managed, and the manager is almost always on site. At the other barn, they live quite a distance away and are only there in the evenings.
I'm just really frustrated. I don't know what his deal is on this.