“A Pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An Optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
~ Winston Churchill
I’m not going to lie….. the last couple weeks (has it only been a couple of weeks?) have been pretty stressful. Not to mention, the longest couple of weeks of my life, in which I have lost all concept of days or time. 3 weeks ago, we made the difficult decision to close our barn gates for our programs and lessons. Two weeks ago, we made the agonizing decision to shut our gates to our boarders, leasees, and therapy clients as we complied with the county and the state’s “stay-at-home” order mandating non-essential businesses to close. Our staff is deemed essential as we need to make sure that we all stay healthy to be able to care for the 20+ horses on our property during this pandemic. None of these decisions were come to lightly, and all at BNS have been through the wringer in worrying about keeping our horses and clients safe.
However, I’d also like to believe that we’re (realistic) optimists. There are plenty of difficulties in trying to keep a business afloat that relies on having human contact and connection with these wonderful animals. We had just survived winter with months of battling awful weather which forced us to cancel lessons and paid work, with gratitude that spring was finally starting to show. Our competition season was getting ready to gear up, our horses were fit and ready, lessons were picking up, foaling season was just around the corner….. when everything came to a grinding halt. With that came acceptance and now adapting!
As a business and a family (blood, barn and chosen), we’re pulling together all our skills (which are varied and many) and resources to be able to use this time to our best advantage. We’ve had so many different projects on so many different back burners, that it's quite amazing we’ve even remembered them all. We’re taking this time to revamp those projects and hopefully be able to get them up and running and available to you all, our community and the general public!
With all of this… We’re proud and pleased to announce our ONLINE STORE!
We might be biased, but there’s a lot of cool things available there. We have BNS hoodies, Tshirts, kids shirts, craft kits, trucker hats, gift cards…..
We’re excited to announce that we are also ready to launch our new ONLINE training and educational platforms which will be available for monthly subscriptions in our online store. So head on over to the new Body N Soul Educational Series Page as well for more information.
Really, while this has been a super stressful time, it has also been a nice change in a lot of ways. We’ve been forced to have to think outside of the box and come up with new and creative ways to stay active and keep our community intact. We’re really excited to see where these new endeavors take us!