Its been a pretty long week but one filled with lots of exciting challenges! For the past month or so I have been developing equine courses for the college so that we can start to work towards having an equine studies minor. Both of the stable management courses are all figured out complete with syllabi and weekly topic outlines and the equine internship has already been approved. The next step is to pitch the stable management classes to the dean and that will be happening on Feb. 13th! Needless to say I'm super excited and feeling surprisingly well prepared. As I wrote out the cover letter for the proposal I realized just how much these courses really will help out our struggling college and hopefully draw more students to the riding teams. Fingers crossed it goes well! With all of these exciting changes happening its looking like next year will be the upswing we need at Wesleyan. The hunt seat team didn't disappoint this week either. After an awesome practice last weekend and some great lessons this week, they headed off to Georgia Southern yesterday and everyone came home with ribbons! While I had to stay at home and look after the farm I'm still very excited and proud of the girls and looking forward to Clemson in two weeks.
Apparently the weather also wanted to get in on the excitement this week. Wednesday was absolutely crazy with tornado warnings throughout the day and unbearable winds...thank goodness it was in the 70's though! Thankfully we made it through without any damage and no tornadoes too terribly close. Please keep the families affected by the huge tornado in Northern Georgia in your thoughts. I know we are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers and are very thankful to report that the McCurdy family (where Lou spent the first part of his Georgia journey) is safe as well even with a tornado touching down just 3 miles away. I have a feeling we are going to have to get used to some major weather changes being down here, just as long as we don't have any blizzards I think we'll be just fine.
After the long week it will be nice to relax with some awesome football food and watch the game tonight. We hope that everyone else had a great week and is able to enjoy the game tonight with family and friends. We miss you all!
Badger did not want to help write the blog last week
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