Awareness of the outside world. Pi Day. Mental Floss: How to Memorize Pi if You’re a Word Person, Okrent, 2015.
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tl,dr: Stopped by new hunter/jumper barn. Promising. Lessons start in April.
Actually, it’s an old barn under new management. Completely new. New barn owners, new barn manager, new trainer, new horses.
We have been watching the changeover as we drive by, as one does. For sale sign goes up. For sale sign comes down. No horses in the field. Horses in the field. We have been meaning to stop by.
Last week, I drove past a roadside advertisement for the barn. Lessons. Birthday Parties. Same name. Was it new or not? Time to check it out, because …
One. Whoever is there, they are looking for business.
Two. Any horse who can used for birthday parties is probably a horse I can ride right now.
Result. Nice chat. They said all the right things. Responded to all my questions with the answers I wanted to hear. Asked a few questions of their own.
Overall, they are planning to run the barn with a slightly different philosophy than the prevailing paradigm in our area. More relaxed. Sounds good to me. As with any new idea, is it an unexploited niche just waiting to be filled? Or is there a reason no one else does it that way? Time will tell.
Check back in April to schedule a lesson.
As always, more details, or not, once I find out what level of publicity they prefer.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Yay!
Maybe.
🤞
Joan
Love the way to judge a horse’s riding level — if it can be used for birthday parties. 😂. Hope all goes well. MM
Thank you for the good wishes. Looking forward to April.