Busy Day

Yesterday I was ungodly busy .... not training dogs. I had an appointment with my horse trainer who also happens to be my neighbor so the lesson kept being delayed which is fine because she is practically training my horse for free and I am eternally grateful to her. But it did set my day back an hour. I had to water my sheep, rush two golden retrievers home. And as I had them packed up and just about to hop in the car and leave, a client apperied and wanted a tour of the facility. Which if you have an appointment is fine. But she didnt, now I spend 75% of my day these days maintaining this property, picking up poop, cleaning the kennel, battling the weeds, feeding/watering everyone, picking up food, answering emails, talking on the phone with clients. So I explained to this lady that I was just about to leave and I was already running an hour behind and I couldnt give her the tour but if she wanted to come by in a hour and half Id be back and happy to show her around. She was fine with that and said she'd be back around 5pm, perfect I thought because that would give me time to clean up. Well at 4pm just as I was about to head over to clean the kennel. My door bell rang. Awesome. I had to give her the tour with a dirty kennel. She was supposed to drop off her dogs this morning before 8am well its almost 9am and nothing. I would love to have the time to keep that kennel space spotless all the time but I run an entire business by myself. Everything that needs to be done is done by me. So oh well.

ETA: She never did show up....

I spend my life waiting

Today is one of those days were I will spend all day waiting on other people. I had to wait for day care drop offs this morning till 10am, I had an appointment at 11 at 12 I had a dog being dropped off, that didnt show up till 1220. A pick up at 1:30pm ( at the moment its almost 2 and they still havent shown up) Between 3 and 5 I have to wait around for daycare pick ups. Then between 5 and 6 another dog is being dropped off. Im am great-full for such a busy day but I just wish people would be on time so I could have a chance to get to the store the bank and the feed store.

Communication

A lack of communication is a huge pet peeve of mine. While some of my clients are really great about it, others dont and some ( like what happened this morning ) are random.
I have a puppy that has been super consistent with daycare monday threw thursday if something comes up the owner would email me right away and let me know. Super nice considering he drops off at 7am. But this morning, nothing. He didnt show up, no email, no phone call, nothing. So this means I got up and dress before the sun for nothing. It leave me wondering, will he be here tomorrow? Will I every see them again?Are they ok? Did I do something wrong? I wish people would just tell me that they decided to do something else.Then at least I know, and if I did something wrong that they would let me know. At least then I could fix it.
I have another client. They drop off at 6:30 am but they dont ever call, text or email they just show up. Luckily everytime I just happen to be up at that hour.
The worst though are the people that make a boarding reservation then dont show up at all. Ive had whole days with drop off spread out over the course of the day and have had NO ONE show up.... so then I am stuck at the house waiting around for people that and no reason as to why. I would much rather know you decided to go with someone else, that your trip was canceled, that you just didnt like me or the property. Seriously it wont hurt my feelings, I depend on that money for rent and food, I'd much rather people be honest with me and be able to fill that kennel with another dog then to have it empty.
I've started to tell people there are solid times for pick ups and drop off with fines if they are late, BUT if they communicate with me I am totally flexible. We'll see how that works out in the long run....

Catching up..

When I started this blog my husband was just about to deploy and I was looking for a way to help myself cope with the loneliness by writing out my emotions. Well as it turns out I didnt write as much (or at all) as I had planned.  Well its been about 7 or so months sense I last wrote something. DH is home and it was a hell of a deployment, seriously. Everything that could have gone wrong did... sometimes twice, and for the the first time in about 50 years airwingers had to engage in combat. Awesome, huh? Not really. And while he said it was "way cool" it was for me, one of those bad days I will never forget as long as I live, . But on the up side he's alive, home and we are happy to be together. 

The business is doing OK, their were a few months I needed help paying for rent and those were really hard times. But in the past few months Ive been getting by on my own. I haven't had a training dog sense November and that dog is STILL HERE cause her owner stopped responding to my phone calls, my text messages and my emails. I dont quite know what to do about that one. So not having a training dog in a few months means Ive been getting by on just daycare, boarding and private lessons. Which is a struggle and a constant worry to say the least. I hate it. Everything about my job I hate. We've been in this house for a year now, and I wake up everyday hating life. As I type that it seems harsh, especially because on the out side my life looks like a dream come true. I get to be home all the time ( means I NEVER get a day off cause I can not leave these dogs alone for to long or people get mad and if I do leave I worry constantly about what might be happening inside that kennel) I have my own little flock of sheep and get to work my dog whenever I want ( the location of my arena is very public meaning if I dont one little thing wrong with those sheep people complain) I get to play with dogs all day ( no. I WORK with dogs, I clean poop, clean kennels, clean yards, and deal with owners) ... so on the outside yes "hate" seems harsh, but I wake up every morning wondering what on earth I may have done wrong now, its an awful feeling, to know that everyday you work your ass off and its never enough, that your husband is miserable in this house and its all because of you. But Im going to fix it. Alot of people are going to be upset when we move but I value my marriage more then I value this job, even if it was a supposed to be this "dream job".