My first day at my new job!

Well, Yesterday I officially started my horse job :) It wsa really fun. The first thing I did was work the kinks out of the roping horses, rode them around the arena for while etc.. The bad thing was that my feet are so wide that my boots didn't fit into the stirrups, and mostly I'm supposed to trot them around, which means I got pretty sore from all the bouncing since I couldn't really use my legs as shock absorbers ;)
After that I ran the roping calves through the chute for the rest of the morning. They do a lot of roping events there, and their horses have to be kept in practice :)
Then I did a lot of different stuff with saddling up and taking saddles off and stuff for a while. Also I went out on several of the trails there to clear brush and branches to get them ready for the trail riding season. I'll probably be doing some trail riding stuff today, yesterday we rounded all the trail horses up and got them ready for the trails, because probably today there will be some trail riders wanting to come.
Monday there is going to be a really big roping event there that I will be helping with too. I'm going to be going there in a little bit, I stayed in steelville overnight because of gas to drive home being so expensive.

Sorry these pictures are pretty bad, but I took them all with my cell phone, so...
This is the view looking into one side of one of the horse barns. The stalls are REALLY nice! The barn is insulated, has ceiling fans, lots of lights, concrete floors.. it's really nice ;)Here's the view out from the barn over a few of the paddocks, and part of the arena in the distant background, that white tower you can see back toward the trees is the broadcast tower for their roping events like they have at rodeos and stuff.
Here's one of the smaller pastures. The farm sits on 1,200 acres, plus another 1,200 acres on two different plots across the river and the road.
This is the paddock where all the mares with foals go. Most of them are up in the shade so you can't see any. :(
Another shot of the main horse barn. There are two rows of stalls like this in that barn, I didn't count, but I'd guess there are around 40 stalls just in that one barn.
Some of the trail horses. I got to brush several of these down really well, because if you leave them dirty they will get sores under their saddles and all around the straps and stuff.
I learned quite a bit yesterday, but I still have a long way to go!! it's kinda confusing sometimes with all the new stuff I'm trying to remember! I still need to do some work on my riding posture I think, although my boss said I looked pretty good... I'm just pretty sore after only riding for an hour or so.. and I shouldn't be.. oh well, I'll get the hang of it :)