Relaxing with Some Horseplay

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Created on Tuesday, 07 May 2013 12:49

Written by Brian Stone

Seeing Kattie Smedley working at Shear Sensations in Lyndonville you would not expect her to spending her days off in the dirt and cobwebs of the over 100 year old barn, but that’s exactly where you will find her.

Smedely, a full time hairstylist at Shear Sensations, has had a passion for horses since a young age and took the first opportunity she could to have one of her own. “I started riding horses when I was really little with my cousin Shelby. and then I took riding lessons, and then when I was a senior in high school, I had David Williams "W" who owns this barn, he brought classes up here and I fell in love with his horses, and knew my whole life I always wanted one, I knew I was about to get a full time job, knew I was going to have money for one, and that was the first thing I spent money on.”

Smedely purchased her mare from her high school teacher and after years of breading selling the young decided to keep this last baby. “My mare image means a lot to me, and i feel like it was important to keep the last on,” said Smedely “my husband and I got married two years ago, he’s two years old, just felt like the right time, she is getting too old to have more babies and knew that I needed something from her.”

It’s that unknown connection to her horses that allow Smedley to relax outside of work. “When I'm at work I try to be professional and have to talk to people all day long about this that and the other and I love my job I think its art, with horses its different, it’s like my calm its where I want to be. If something is going wrong with my day I like to come and see them, they make me feel better. If something is happy with my day it’s like, got to spend time with them. I don't know, the contrast with horses and my job, I just feel like I have to be so professional and clean and presentable, with people at the work place and then here I can, not be. I can be myself.”