Our precious Josh is retiring…wish him luck!

Dear Friends,  Josh has been a part of our team for quite a few years and we are grateful for the many lives he has touched during that time. He has been fabulous for our newly independent riders, our riders who are timid and need a horse who is slow and steady, and especially our riders who are more advanced.  Josh has served his riders well and is now ready to retire. While we are very sad to see him go, we are also glad that he will be going back to his previous owner, who will take fantastic care of him.  We are having an open house tomorrow, Saturday, from 1pm to 3pm at Full Cry Farm for everyone to say goodbye. You can take a picture with Josh, have a little carrot cake and celebrate his time with us. Just stop by anytime during the open house! Best Wishes, The NVTRP Staff P.S. Josh wrote a goodbye letter. We have included an excerpt below and a link to his entire letter.

Excerpt from Josh’s goodbye letter:  Hello! I have a few things I wanted to say.The biggest thing sounds really simple in two little bitty people words, and I don’t think those two words are big enough to hold everything I want them to mean.  I’ll say them anyway: thank you.  Thank you first of all to the staff here, for working so hard to keep me happy and healthy.  Without you – well, NVTRP wouldn’t exist, and I wouldn’t have gotten to work here.  That would be sad.  To my riders, thank you for giving me the most awesome job in the world: being a teacher.  Oh, and for the treats! And to the volunteers, thank you for everything: for hosing my legs with that nice cool water when they hurt, for standing patiently while I took my time eating dinner, and for being very, very gentle with all my blankets and sheets.  Thanks for putting on the fly sheets in summer, the double blankets in winter, and all the sunscreen on my bald spot.  And especially, thanks for asking nicely for whatever you needed me to do, putting up with my insatiable taste for anything wooden, and not freaking out too badly when I decided to take a sunbath and really looked dead.  Everything you did made a difference. There’s one last thing I want to say before I go, and I think this is the most important one of all.  This one can also be summed up in a short people phrase.  Keep up the good work.  And the work that the NVTRP family is doing together isn’t just good, it’s awesome.  Everyone in my four-legged family here pours our hearts and souls into taking care of our special two-legged students, but we can’t do it alone. We need your help.  Even though I can’t be here anymore, all the riders and horses are still going to need you.  So can you promise me you’ll do that?  Good. If you would like to read the rest of Josh’s letter please visit www.nvtrp.org/joshsaysgoodbye.pdf

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