Just hit 1,000 shoes this year and I had to sit down
I was going through my records last night, tallying up the year so far, and I hit exactly 1,008 shoes since January. That's way more than I expected, especially since I took three weeks off in June after my back gave out. I'm just a one-man shop out of a barn near Lexington, Kentucky, mostly doing local trail horses and some show prospects. It hit me how many times I've bent over and picked up a hoof this year, and honestly my knees are feeling every single one of those shoes. I guess I never stopped to think about the volume before, it just felt like each day was the same grind. Has anyone else done the math on their yearly numbers and gotten surprised by it? Or am I the only one who downplays how much work this job really is?