Honor Baslim - Week 4

Hola amigos!

Well this last week I got to work with a kid from a local Boy Scout troop - he's working to get his Eagle Scout membership or whatever it's called so he chose our program to do a project for. He approached the director of our program with the purpose of building something for us so he will be building a shade structure next to our arena for parents to sit under when it's hot out. It was cool to meet someone so young (ok he was like 15ish) that has such a passion for his organization - it reminded me of some of our Bonners.

Lessons this week were good - though we were down a staff member so we all had to pick up the slack. One of our horses Mark is like 35 years old - which is like 90-something in human years, and

Mark

he has spent his entire life as a lesson horse. Teaching children of varying age, skill, abilities forever - and he loves it and the kids. It's funny cause he's not really mean per say but he's definitely grumpy - he just wants to be left alone as much as possible, unless of course if it's time to teach. In his lessons Mark perks right up and gets right to work; though he isn't anymore Mark used to do horse shows almost always placing. The point in me writing about Mark is to make a point - I know some people involved with Bonner have not always seen the benefits to volunteering in animal related organizations, but it's not as simple as that. Yes there are times with these types of organizations that we are doing "non beneficial" work unrelated to people, but we do that work for the animals so that then they can preform some sort of task. We clean the horse stalls so that the horses can have a nice habitat when they're not working. We groom the horses to get them ready for their lesson. Then we get to work with the horse to help someone, but we couldn't have gotten to helping this person without helping this animal. It's important to always try and see the bigger picture in most things in life, don't get bogged down in the details - but don't forget them either.

Well, that was a bit of a tangent - but still relative!

Will write again soon, B<3