| ANIMAL SITTER My name is Kary Hodge and I am a Navy wife that just moved to Gainesville and is looking for an animal sitter job. I have had ten+ years experience w/ horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens, cows and house sitting. My e-mail is karyhodge@yahoo.com and my phone # 860-823-9612 Thank you Kary SPRINGBREEZE STABLE LTD Transport Foxhunting Steeplechasing Training Breaking Rod Cameron 410-429-8926 cell/410-236-5465 rodandpat1@prodigy.net ARTIST Tim Donovan is one of the leading wildlife painters in America. See his work at www.donovanart.com. He lives in Lovettsville. Cowgirlsmiles.... ....Deborah Morrow has created an internet store with some of her equine images. *** ALSO, her work is displayed at Really Great Finds in Purcellville. Come visit the shop in Purcellville and see her images on shutters, tile, and just delivered, the Middleburg Hunt Hounds on a round table...in time for Christmas! One of a kind pieces...she is a transfer artist, and takes her equestrian photographs and places them on shutters, tiles, as giclees, and notecards. You can also see her work at The Mixed Bag in Marshall and Middleburg and at Valley Finds, in Front Royal. www.cafepress.com/cowgirlsmiles Images on tile to be found on Etsy. She is also offering gift certificates, so if you know of someone that wants their image on tile, please contact her through her email. hackberry@mindspring.com Experienced Trainer willing to Travel -- Whether you need a horse started under saddle or just continuing education for your horse, I am ready and willing. Quiet and patient, with an ability to structure a program with each individual horses needs in mind. Strong dressage background, experienced in maintaining hunt horses, and a competitive in three day eventing. Willing to come to you or your welcome to join me at my facility. References available. Please call 703-999-8201 or email riskitlac@yahoo.com. Kindly, Leslie Chelstrom BOARDING Hunt Ridge Stables at Blue Ridge Farm, Upperville, VA offering; Large box stalls, Convenient to local hunts, Sand riding ring, Hot and cold wash stall and beautiful trail riding. Experienced care for Broodmares, Yearlings, Lay-ups and Turnouts Stall board $600 monthly, also available individualized turnout for stall boarded horses. Field board $350.00 monthly CALL cell 703-973-1140 Evenings 540-592-3508 Stalls and Pasture available in Lucketts, Virginia - Self-care stall and pasture board available. Pasture is lush with board fencing, run-in shed and automatic waterer. 4 stalls available and use of use ring and jumps. Farm is conveniently located off Route 15 just 1 mile north of Lucketts. $225/month per horse. Horses must not be cribbers and must have recent vaccinations and negative Coggins. Please call Melissa at 703-344-8118 or email cherryspringfarm@yahoo.com HANDYMAN Need anything done around your house, farm or office? I might have the right man for the job. A friend is 'between jobs' and has been filling spaces with handyman work and more. He has some tools and knows basic carpentry, fix-it, painting (just did an entire house interior -- looks great, plus a deck refinishing), etc. He can also do business work -- from simple data input to business plans to general accounting/finance to computer work and more. Also knows his way around the barn/farm so horse help or farm assistance (heavy work included) are easily possible. He can also run errands etc. Chris can work by the job or by the hour. Email directly ChrisCather2001@yahoo.com or call (443) 254-6375. Feel free to pass this along or post to other sites Horses boarded in Haymarket - Introductory Special 1/2 off 1st month's board $375/month (pony stalls $325) 20 minutes from Centreville, Manassas, & Chantilly Friendly, family atmosphere where you and your horse can relax. Center aisle barns are cool in the summer, and warm in the winter Experienced manager living on premises Stalls soon available in center aisle barns Lighted arena with large variety of jumps 40 acres of pasture Trails Trailering to shows and events email: fairviewhorsectr@aol.com phone 703.203.9107 website: http://www.fairviewhorsecenter.com Darlyn Fairview Horse Center 2617 Logmill Road Haymarket, VA 20169 Boarding/stalls available Great Oaks Farm is located 5 miles north of rt.50 (upperville show grounds). New barn, stalls 14'x14'. Large turn out fields (4-board fencing), trails,horse swimming pool(36'x57) and round pens (sand). Horses are fed, watered, turned in and out am & pm. $400/mo. Fee includes bedding. Hay and feed not included. For more information call Bill or Gretchen at 540-554-2924. Web: wwwequineswimclub.com Folded Stock Ties: I make stock ties in a variety of patterns and fabrics. The ties are made 84" long, 4" wide unfolded and 2" wide folded. These are not shaped stock ties. See some of the ties at my blog: http://indigofarm.blogspot.com/ Each tie is $25 and that includes postage. Please contact me at: indigofox@adelphia.net Thank you, Leslie GIFT IDEAS Christmas is around the corner, Oh Ya! and here is a GREAT site for original gifts for the horse person in your life. Please give Dagmar a call Her web site is; www.designsbydagmar.com Virginia Trail Ride Package: Services provided for those of you who want to ride the Virginia trails, but don't know how to get started. I can provide you with the resources for a comfortable, safe, ride in the mountains or on more gentle terrain. Learn how to set up for camping with your horse or find lodging and stabling. Find the trails so you can enjoy them on your own in the future. Learn about conditioning and care of your horse in distance riding. I have 34 years experience as a riding instructor and 25 years riding Virginia trails and competitive trail riding. Showing others is a pleasure to me. your horse or mine. Contact Louise Hanscom at 804-784-5139 in Manakin-Sabot, Va. Green Carpet Stable's TEN - Traveling Equine Nurses Equine Medical Care Benefits of using TEN; TEN allows your horse to stay at home for a speedy recovery. TEN costs less then keeping the horse at the equine hospital or a layup facility TEN has qualified nurses to administer treatments trained by the local equine hospital TEN's nurses are available for emergency calls and to assist the referring veterinarians. TEN provides medical documentation of all procedures performed on the horse including any communication made with the referring veterinarian. TEN foes a vital sign check before every treatment to evaluate changes. TEN is supported and recommended by the local veterinarians. For more information call 703-999-8873 38100 Gospond Lane, Leesburg, VA 20175 Handyman Services The Wright Stuff No Job Too Small (also bar-tends) Buck Wright540-522-1812 Silver fox Farm Leesburg Va. 703-727-4483 Full care stall board $450.00 Field Board $300.00, Lighted ring, hot & cold wash rack, Private barn, small group turn out, worming, restroom, adult lessons, bring your own trainer, Good ride out, great ladies to ride with & free trailer parking. Over The Grass Farm, in The Plains, VA is happy to announce the addition of a lesson program to our wonderful farm. Lessons are $50 per week (for two lessons) and when the students are ready we will trail ride/ cross country jump on the weekends. We have limited availability and keep the lessons small at 1-3 people per lesson. We are only accepting students (children or small adults- we only have ponies) who would be interested in foxhunting with us in the fall (Saturdays we will hunt 1st field with Warrenton Hunt and Sundays we will hunt 2nd field with the MOC Beagle Pack). These lessons will be used to prepare the riders for the hunt season which begins in September. There are showing, eventing, trail riding, etc options available all summer long as well (at your own cost). We also have the opportunity to help out with hound exercise all summer long! We would like to find riders who would be interested in taking two arena lessons during the week and, when they are ready, join us for a cross country lesson on the weekends. We have the following lesson times available for riders: Monday/Friday 4-5:30 for more advanced riders (those who can walk and trot comfortably and who can/want to canter and jump). There are two spots available for these times. and we can add one more person to our Tuesday/Thursday lessons from 4-5:30 where the students are currently WTC and jumping about 2-3 feet. We apologize but our beginner lessons are currently full. Please let us know if you'd like to be on a waiting list. This is a private farm so visits are by appointment only. If you would like to come sit in on a lesson or would like to come meet the ponies please call to set up a time. Leave a message for Lacy at 540-253-5228 and your call will promptly be returned or send an email to horses0109@yahoo.com Need help getting ready for your spring shows - Riding lessons now available. Experienced horsewoman available for lessons. Competed through Intermediate (CCI**) eventing, ridden through 2nd level dressage, shown hunters/jumpers; graduate Pony Clubber; taught by Olympic Rider and BHS Instructor. Experience with building confidence for horse and rider. Both adults and children accepted. Will travel within 30 miles of Leesburg, VA Other services available - coaching at shows/events; braiding; clipping; buying/selling horses Joanna (Aiken) Bleakley - 703-554-2773 Folks, Many people have been telling me to turn professional with my photography, and I've been listening. As a result, please look at my new website: http://www.KLMimages.com/ for my new venture, KLM Images. You will find there a number of portfolios and, at the end, a new Virginia Hunting Diary.Aside from the snazzy new look, the biggest change will be that you can buy prints and items like mugs and t-shirts directly from the website. You can also get digital downloads, for those of you who want to do that. If you've been using my pictures in places like Facebook or in online articles, you will still be able to get those low resolution downloads for free. You can also do searches -- if you are not from one of my regular hunts, try searching for your hunt's name (especially useful for the Pack Trials section). I will continue to provide all materials for the benefit of the hunts of which I am a member (for their websites, newsletters, publicity, Xmas gifts, and so forth) free of charge. For those of you worried about dial-up speeds, I am still providing pages of thumbnails which should minimize your pain. These thumbnail pages are smaller pages than on my old site, and should therefore be much faster. The existing Hunting Gallery ( http://www.KarenLMyers.org/huntingdiary/ ) will be migrated over to the new site, essay by essay. There are 136 essays (as of 12/30/2008), so that's going to take a while. If you don't see a cover photo for a gallery in the Virginia Hunting Diary section of KLMImages, that means the essay hasn't been moved yet. Once ALL of the essays have been moved, the old Hunting Diary site will be retired, and I'll make an announcement. If you want to get pictures from an essay that hasn't been moved yet, let me know and I'll move it over right away so that it's available for you. All new essays will be posted to the KLM Images site, and I will continue to announce them through my email distribution lists. As you know, I am running very far behind on producing the essays from this winter (I'm currently stuck at 12/31/08, a day I attended 2 events). To minimize the consequent frustration, I'm going to begin rendering the current essays in a timely manner as they occur, and catch up on the in-between ones as fast as I can. So you will start to see placeholders for essays after 12/30/08, and might wonder if you missed an announcement. Don't worry: as I produce each new essay, whether it's current or a little older, I will always send an announcement. If there is some particular essay you want from that stretch of time (I have heard special requests for BRH New Year's Day, NTB with Pond Hill Beagles, and the BRH Point to Point), let me know and it will go to the top of the work list. I do apologize for the backlog, but I attended many more events this year than last year, and it's gotten away from me. Please let me hear your feedback and any suggestions for improvement. Thanks for taking an interest! Karen Myers Karen.L.Myers@usa.net (email) 540-554-8334 (home) 408-242-5580 (cell) 408-904-4887 (efax) http://www.KarenLMyers.org Summer Farm/Home-sitter Professional, Responsible, Mature I will lovingly and respectfully care for your dogs, horses (can muck stalls!), property and business (forward mail etcetera). I recently relocated to DC but wish to experience living in the country again and establish myself before committing to a purchase. Excellent personal and professional references. Contact Kathy (cell)212-517-7079 kjtrenholm@yahoo.com www.kjtrenholm.com Training and Consignment board is available in Hunters, Jumpers and Eventing. Whether your horse stays for 30 days or long term, they will have a training program and schedule that suits their own needs. Full and partial training includes: Your horse will be bathed, clipped and show ready at all times. All vet and farrier arrangements will be scheduled on your behalf. In addition, with full training your horse will have 4-5 training sessions per week. Your horse will have 2-3 training sessons per week with partial training. Affordable pricing packages are available. Consignment Board Includes: Consignment board offers all of the benefits of training; with the inclusion of all sale related expenses including: still photos, video production and web posting, as well as showing your horse to potential buyers and setting up all associated veterinary appointments and shipping reservations. (Seller may be responsible for the cost of paid advertising sites.) Your horse will be bathed, clipped and show ready at all times. All vet and farrier arrangements will be scheduled on your behalf. In addition, your horse will have 4-5 training sessions per week. Affordable pricing packages are available. Lindsay Fox is based out of the newly renovated Aldie Equestrian Center. This full service facility offers a new outdoor ring, indoor ring, large fields with run-in sheds for turnout as well as private and semi-private paddocks. The facility offers large stalls, hot/cold wash stall, farriers station, tack rooms, heated lounge and much more. Also our barn help does live on site! DONT FORGET TO ASK ABOUT OUR SPECIAL PRICING PLAN FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL AND MAY!!!! For more information please call Lindsay Fox at 703-887-4622 or email me at aldieequestrian@aol.com Please visit www.lindsayfox.net PLEASE HELP, from Gin Richardson As you know, with the downturn in the economy, many people are losing their homes. Those families who have nowhere else to go, head for shelters, and most shelters refuse to allow pets. This means that the family dog that's been so loyal,unconditionally loving, and protective of these families has no place to go, except the animal shelter. Many animal shelters are becoming inundated by animals who have become homeless, and a large number of these poor animals are being put to sleep because the shelters simply don't have the space to hold them until they can find new forever homes. Unfortunately, along with the downturn in the economy goes the loss of donations to organizations who depend on them to survive and take care of these animals. Tri State All Breed Rescue is a no-kill shelter system where dogs are fostered out to caring families to take good care of them until new forever homes can be found for them. Tri State provides food, vet care and more for these dogs. Tri State All Breed Rescue desperately needs: Bleach Cotton towels Paper towels Kirkland dog food Dog beds Cages Crates Old Blankets/Quilts The website is http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/MD292.html. Please contact Deborah Wolfe @ debwolfecorgis@gmail.com Hi, all you animal lovers. This is pretty simple... Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (How about 20 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals' for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertiser s use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned or neglected animals in exchange for advertising. Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ PLEASE TELL 10 FRIENDS !!! LOTS OF BARN CATS READY FOR HOMES call Frances Cook, 757-853-0178 Cat Rescue Inc, Chesapeake, VA, 757-432-9345 www.catrescueinc.org Lindsay Fox is now accepting a limited number of students. Instruction available in Hunters, Jumpers and Eventing. Lindsay has a lovely selection of horses and ponies. Looking to show? Not a problem. We regularly attend both the local and rated shows. However; showing is not required. Lindsay’s students are welcome to trailer their horses to Aldie Equestrian Center for their lessons at no additional charge. Traveling to you may be an option as well. For more information please email aldieequestrian@aol.com or call 703-887-4622 |
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