Lots of News

[ranunculus]

Starting with:
http://ranunculus.dreamwidth.org/2016/08/15/
and finishing with:
http://ranunculus.dreamwidth.org/487446.html

Comments

[cynnerth]

Congratulations on the show!! That's fantastic. :)

[ranunculus]

Thanks. I'm really glad to have the work, and I hope that I eventually get to like the show!!

Love your effort to cut down on online time.

[ravenfeather]

Sorry about the horse owner issue, but it sounds like excuses were given, and he was always going to be a problem. It sounds like you have a full load though, do you have openings to rent out, or are they mostly filled all the time?

Congrats on the steady job!

[ranunculus]

That guy was a real "piece of work". I'm glad he's gone, he had no business owning a horse.

I have openings. Almost always. That is because I ask people to take care of their own horses. It is AMAZING how many people want a horse but don't want the work that goes with it. When I do get good tenants they tend to stick with me for years.

[ravenfeather]

I guess all I know is our horses, and boarding through the military, but I have never heard of a place that cared for the horses for you, and all you had to do was come ride.

[ranunculus]

Lots of places do "full care". The definition of full care varies, but generally includes doing the work of feeding and mucking, often includes daily or weekly turnout for specified times. Many places will schedule the farrier and hold your horse for him/her. Sometimes blanketing and grooming is included. Higher priced places might add a rider to exercise the horse and even offer services to have your horse groomed and saddled when you arrive.

[pondhopper]

Discrimination...I remember my dad saying (when I was a kid) that a WOMAN had applied for union membership (Sheet Metal Workers Union) and that he didn't see how she would be able to work jobs with the guys. That was 50 years ago so in the grand scheme of things, not all that long ago. But 50 years ago there was a very clear line between men's and women's jobs that is no longer all that clear even though discrimination persists. So congratulations on the long run job! It's been a long time coming!

How can anybody, much less a horse owner, not realize you have to make sure the horses had full troughs? Seriously? Like Raven says, he would have been a problem in the longer run so hard as it is, I'm glad you asked him to leave.

[ranunculus]

When I worked non-Union, before 1995, there were a LOT of women working. In fact, most crews were primarily women on NOT Union jobs. When I started with the Union I was the only woman on the crews. Me and 5 to 40 men. Yes there was harassment, but I never much minded it. Harassment can be dealt with (look, if the guys really get that bad, most women can make them blush, really fast, and they really, really don't want to report it!), discrimination, especially institutionalized discrimination, is a lot harder to combat.

The horse pasture tenant, he was hopeless. He really, really didn't have any business owning an animal.

[kabuldur]

Horses MUST be watered every day. So, I don't blame you for asking the tenant to leave.

And congratulations on the job!