
Heidi Cherry & Vaya - The Horse Shoe
This Awesome, Fun Bedtime Story For Kids is about Uncle Lee the Farrier. Uncle Lee shoes horses and cherry has a lot to say about that! These fun stories are created to help children of all ages settle down for a happy nights sleep. Aiding to reduce anxieties, stresses and worries by replacing them with a smile :)
Transcript
Are you ready to meditate with Kori?
Get all comfortable in your bed,
Make sure everything feels just right so that you can relax your body,
Settle down and let go of your busy day,
Eventually falling fast to sleep.
Heidi,
Cherry and Veya were on a very special outing.
They were with Uncle Lee.
Uncle Lee was a farrier and he was shooing a horse.
Cherry had got so many questions.
So many questions?
I have so many questions Uncle Lee.
I have like first question,
First question.
This is what she was doing.
She was watching very closely as Uncle Lee was pulling off the horse's old shoe that needed to be replaced.
He was banging and using like a crowbar to get the shoe off and it looked very complex and also as if it was painful.
Heidi and Veya were also watching Uncle Lee.
Heidi could tell that Cherry looked a little bit concerned about what was going on,
The whole procedure as they had never watched anyone changing horse's shoes before and putting new shoes on a horse.
It was as if Heidi knew exactly what Cherry was thinking and Heidi said,
Don't worry Cherry,
It's not hurting the horse.
Cherry said,
That was my first question.
My first question was,
OMG Uncle Lee,
Are you being nice to that horse?
Are you hurting the horse?
Does it hurt?
Because I mean you are using nails and you are using a hammer and you are using like that thingamajiggy to poke it and pull it off and everything and it looks very scary and I don't think I'd want you messing around with my feet like that.
Uncle Lee started laughing and said,
Nope it doesn't hurt Cherry,
Don't you worry.
Cherry said,
Yeah but how do you know it doesn't hurt?
Can you do like horse language?
Can you talk to the horsey?
Horsey,
Hello horsey,
Can you tell me please,
Does it hurt when you get new shoes or when you get your old shoes taken off?
Does it hurt because there's nails involved?
And I think personally,
Myself,
If Uncle Lee was putting a shoe on me and he was using a hammer and nails I'd be like,
Ow!
They said,
Me just thinks that they can't feel it because it's like a big giant toenail said Cherry.
Uncle Lee said,
That's right,
That's it,
Exactly Veya,
You've got it,
You've got the nail on the head.
Yeah,
Exactly,
Well it doesn't hurt because I'm only hammering into the hoof and the hoof is like a big giant rough thick nail.
Ah!
Said Cherry,
Okay,
So then if it doesn't hurt let me ask you this,
Let me ask you this Uncle Lee because I've been thinking about this since we arrived on this farm and I know that like you do horses all day but I want to know what 14,
No,
No not that,
Oops,
Sorry,
Not that,
Um,
Farrierin,
Farrierin means exactly,
I mean what does that mean?
Does it mean like,
I don't know,
I have absolutely no clue what that means,
Um,
Yeah.
Heidi said,
Well it just so happens that last week I was reading an old English book about old country houses and farms and different things that they have in England that date way back and apparently the word farrierin is actually old French and it means blacksmith.
Right!
Said Cherry,
Yeah that makes total sense,
I get it now.
No I don't because I don't even know what you've just said,
What did you just say?
I don't understand what you mean,
What is a blacksmith?
What's that?
What does it mean?
Heidi said a blacksmith is someone that works with metal and the horse's shoes are made out of iron and they have to be made over a hot fire and shaped and then all this different fancy stuff happens and that's what blacksmiths do,
They work with metal,
They forge it into different shapes so you can make metal shoes for horses,
Metal gates,
Metal knives,
Metal hinges for doors,
Whatever you can make out of metal that's what blacksmiths make and a farrier actually puts those shoes onto horses,
They're trained to do it a very specific way,
Very carefully and very safely so it doesn't hurt the animals.
Oh I get it now,
OMG that makes me feel so much better but Uncle Lee aren't you hurting your back because you seem to be bent over in a very percurious way?
Uncle Lee said,
Sometimes it hurts my back yes but sometimes it doesn't,
Some horses actually are very very happy to have their feet messed with,
Some horses don't like it at all Cherry,
This particular horse,
Velvet,
Doesn't like it at all,
That's why I've got a towel wrapped around her leg because she doesn't like to be touched,
She doesn't like me to touch her feet and if I touch her feet she gets really angry and she can kick sometimes or sometimes even horses can bite.
Horses bite?
Said Cherry,
I was just riding on a horse not too long ago we went horse riding,
If I'd have known that a horse could bite me I don't think I'd have done it.
Horses can definitely bite said Uncle Lee but if you stay confident and you put out a good energy in your body the horses can read you and feel you and they know who's boss and I'm boss Cherry and no horses mess around with me so they don't bite me but sometimes I've had horses years and years ago that have tried but this particular horse I wrap a towel around its leg and then I use the towel to lift its leg up and for whatever reason Cherry that horse is happy with me doing that,
It just doesn't like me touching its feet with my hands so I don't,
I'm smart,
I use my brain,
I use my upstairs for thinking and my downstairs for dancing.
Cherry started laughing,
Errrr Uncle Lee I don't know what you're saying,
I've absolutely no clue what you just meant.
What are you doing?
Are you talking English or are you talking in some kind of slang or something?
Heidi said,
That's slang Cherry,
Very good.
Right said Uncle Lee,
Well upstairs for thinking means I use my brain for thinking,
Downstairs for dancing means I use my feet for dancing,
Upstairs for thinking Cherry,
Downstairs for dancing.
Yeah still don't make any sense at all Uncle Lee.
Right so then my next question is,
This is a very important question,
Do you have any questions by the way Veya,
You're very quiet.
Veya was holding her nose,
She didn't like the smell.
Uncle Lee had got to a point where he was burning the new horseshoe onto the horse's hoof and he was making it so that it fit perfectly but when you do that it lets off a smoke and a steam and it smells really bad like burning feet and burning toenails and burning horse poop and burning everything that's on that horse's feet so it's not a very pleasant smell.
Heidi was okay with it,
Cherry had not even noticed she had so many questions.
Veya being a princess and all did not like the smell at all and she kept gipping a little bit and every time she moved a paw off her nose and she smelled again she would go as if it was so bad that she was going to be sick.
Cherry just noticed this and said Veya OMG what's wrong are you alright?
Veya said not really it's just the smell,
It's not very pleasant at all and I didn't think it was going to smell,
I think I'm going to go over here and maybe talk to this other horse while it waits to have its feet done.
Cherry said to Veya,
Okay obviously you don't have any questions,
Good because I have so many uncle Lee.
Right uncle Lee this is my next question,
Why do horses need shoes?
Because I don't wear shoes,
Pigs don't wear shoes,
Sheep don't wear shoes,
Cats don't wear shoes right all cats don't wear shoes,
Dogs don't wear shoes,
Guinea pigs don't wear shoes,
What else?
Goats,
Goats don't wear shoes uncle Lee interrupted.
Yes Cherry horses wear shoes because they're walked on gravel and people get on the bags and put extra weight on them and the extra weight as they walk on the gravel and the stones and the roads and everything else makes the nails get very very very short and if they got really short to the point where they were all the way down to the skin it would hurt the horse to walk on the roads and people need horses to walk on the roads because they make them work especially on a farm they're working horses so they have them doing lots of different jobs and all of those jobs mean that they're working hard on their toes and that means they need to get them fixed.
OMG said Cherry that makes total sense,
Actually uncle Lee that answers my next question because my next question is why do horses need shoes if they work on a farm but horses in the wild don't wear shoes do they uncle Lee because I have never seen a horse running in a field or running out like you know in a pasture or something that doesn't belong to anyone like a wild horse like a wild boar or a wild tiger or a wild elephant they don't wear shoes do they uncle Lee said no very very good upstairs for thinking downstairs for dancing Cherry that's correct they don't wear shoes in the wild because they don't work on the roads and the gravel and the streets like horses do that are used for working or that are pets and are used for riding they need shoes wild horses don't need shoes very well spotted.
Oh thanks uncle Lee I know I'm so smart you know and I don't know whether you know this but I am I'm so smart I'm so smart I'm so wise I'm so I'm so clever I'm just like an encyclopedia of knowledge when and then well not like not like Heidi.
Heidi's like really really books more like you know she remembers everything she knows like for example she knew what a farrier was had no idea what a farrier was I got you mixed up with something else that wasn't very good that was like a toot yeah leave it to me but yeah so yeah Heidi is so book smart and I'm not so much book smart I'm more like er street smart is that how you say it Heidi?
Heidi said yeah you can say that you've got lots of common sense yeah that's me common sense but I don't like the word common I'd like to say I've got lots of like hmm you know er fancy sense common sense so uncle Lee said common?
Cherry said yeah uncle Lee and I'm not common I mean not that there's anything wrong with common but yeah no I don't think I'm common I think I'm more of like a luxury you know more of like a specialty more like I don't know just definitely not common there's not that many cherries out there you know definitely not like me I'm so good I'm so confident I'm so smart I'm so amazing I'm so attractive I'm so brave I'm so funny I'm so talented I'm just like a gem like a one and only uncle Lee said that's kind of like a horseshoe because most horseshoes only fit individual horses like a fingerprint you have to make them so they fit just right Cherry so you're like a horseshoe Cherry said er I don't know about that uncle Lee I don't think I like that description I think I'd rather be like er like a diamond or like erm you know like a perfect shell that you would find in the ocean that no other shell is like it if you put it under a microscope you'd be like you'd be like oh they're so complexed so like diverse look at me with all my fancy words you know you know what I've been doing uncle Lee I've been reading more books I've been doing what what er Heidi does because when Heidi reads at night now instead of me just like playing a non-sicken non-sicken non oh I forgot that word I had that word but I forgot it rather than me just playing like some silly game and like just not stimulating me mind I'll be on like social media or like just looking at silly things like cartoons that are fun but they don't really make sense I don't do that as much what I'm doing now is I'm using my brain uncle Lee said you're upstairs for thinking that's it uncle Lee I'm using me upstairs for thinking and I'm using me downstairs for dancing Cherry started dancing on the spot and uncle Lee laughed when he laughed he had a big jolly laugh and that big jolly laugh shook the horse a little bit and the horse that was a little bit timid about having its horseshoes done flinched and kind of neighed and made a noise as if to say hey uncle Lee watch what you're doing with my feet make sure you don't touch my feet and uncle Lee as if he was like a horse whisperer heard what the horse was saying and said stop distracting me Cherry I need to focus on this horseshoe uncle Lee put his head back down and started to bang nails into the little holes that were in the horseshoe that were perfectly aligned with the hoof of the horse so that they didn't go into the horse's flesh or the skin and not hurt it that shoe was finished Cherry was very impressed it's quite shiny isn't it it's like like a shiny like a shiny new bottle on your shoes but it's a shoe not a buckle but yeah I like it Lee I like it so do you think this is my final question uncle Lee do you think I could be a farrier because I'm so strong and yeah I think I'd be good with horses I could be a very good horse whisperer and horses love me don't you don't you love me velvet velvet didn't pay any attention to Cherry at all and Cherry just carried on talking yes so do you think I could be a farrier uncle Lee said oh of course but but maybe not because you need to be tall and you need to be able to pick the horse's foot up and hold the horse's foot which is very heavy and you kind of bent over all day and you get this horrible smell on your hands and your skin and your clothes and it never washes off in the shower you just always smell like burning half hooves and it's a really nice job but it's not a very pleasant job Cherry said stop right there uncle Lee I've already changed my mind I think I'd rather just rely on being famous yes I think being famous is better for me all round and it's better for you because if I was a farrier I'd probably like take over all your horses because they'd like me better right Heidi started laughing and said okay I think we'll leave uncle Lee alone to finish this horse let's go over to where Veier is and we'll go talk to the other horse and we'll have a very nice time Heidi and Cherry walked over to where Veier was Veier was very happy she was standing on a flowered field the wind was blowing through a white fluffy hair it was much more picturesque the horse was just there standing by her nibbling on the grass there was no horse poop around no burning hooves no banging and clanking or anything like that it was like you imagine standing next to a wonderful horse on an English country farm and it being the perfect day the cats drove home with uncle Lee after it finished all the horses and then they had a shower they brushed their teeth they hopped into bed and they slept and slept and slept the end
4.8 (206)
Recent Reviews
Florence
July 16, 2024
AMAZING!!! I don’t know if it was just me not listening or that there was no missing horse shoe? Coz I didn’t hear anything about a missing horse shoe at all! Loved it anyways 😍 Florence and Willa ❤️ P.s (to your reply) where I got the missing horse shoe from 😂 im just kinda weird like that 😂
Weird
May 5, 2024
Lol, Cherry?! A FARRIER?! never. P. S, you should make one about Cherry meeting an introvert and expecting to become BFFS in ten seconds, but then Heidi says that shes an introvert and explains it all and the other types, and Cherry watches Vaya walk up to the same girl and copys what she did and becomes BFFS with the introvert in the end!
Aubrey_Swiftie
December 4, 2023
I ride a horse I love it it's like I have a strong relationship with the horses anyway loved it thanks Cory make a part two pls 5/5 ❤️
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May 2, 2023
:)))I love horses there is a lot in England on the road when I was going to be on my piano lesson ends which was Monday I saw six horses on the way and it all looks so luscious and I did see the little small sheets they should really bright and most of them in the white they had the softest in the world will it look like that but I don’t know if it was it probably was and really soft tales I wish I could squeeze them 💝 I bet you If you were there you would’ve told me they were adorable I hope you have a wonderful day/night
Becky
April 20, 2023
So good my mom got bitten by a horse because they where cranky I love it so much I also agree with cherry I would not want to smell like burning horse poop and burning horse hoof gross Beckys kid love you so much Cory Ty for making these stories:) love 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡💛💛💚💚💙💙💚💛🖤💜🖤🤍🤎🤍💚💚💙💛❤️❤️🖤🤍🤎🧡💛🖤🧡💜❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️💛🤎💛💕💖💖💗💗💖❣️🤍💘💝💝🤍🤍
Rosemary
January 4, 2023
That was amazing that put my child right to sleep that well even I listen to it and oh my gosh I almost fell asleep as well that was a really nice story my love my daughter loves horses I mean she has all around her bed so she was like E that’s have the story mummy and I was like okay sure and then will you listen to it my daughter was like I love the story and we’re listening it to it every day it is such an amazing story thank you so much for everything thank you I really appreciate it every day it’s really hard to get my daughter to sleep when she wants to read books to me and she’s always like waking me up like read me a story and I have to kind of get up during the night just tell her a little story before She will go to bed so thank you very much and also I think Charlie was one of the best characters in the story he builds up self confidence by asking uncle Lee those questions like is he hurting the horses he being nice to the horse and I thought that he could make quite a good fairy but I just think that chair if cherry just started to care a lot more about building the horseshoes then he would know that it takes quite a lot of hard work and quite a few years of training because I do that with my horses as well it is very hard work my daughter does it with her so well my daughter my daughter‘s friend friend has it for her so I think that it’s way easier for her that way she can ride her horse and she thought that velvet was a really nice name for the horse and also her horse hates when he has to have horseshoes so thank you so much for that story you are amazing Cory
Melissa
November 1, 2022
Can you please pls pls PLS PLEASE pls pls pls make a Heidi cherry and vaya ware they get an Operation at the hospital and if you don’t I will be very very VERY 😔 so please do it
Holly
September 30, 2022
I like it I was never tho in like a horse shoe shops and why on my like Review you said “cool beans “ plz explain
Reva
September 24, 2022
I wish all your stories were here on insight timer rather than on YouTube :( :( :( :( :( :( ❤️🐴 🐎🧡 🎠💛 🏇💚 🧲💙 🐎💜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ✨ stars Edit: I love horses
Elikah
April 27, 2022
OMG! OMG! Didn’t make it to the end!🤪😝 Sooooo good! 😊 I love horses and riding them!!!❤️🐎🐴 I also love shaping metal!🤠🤣 Cherry is sooo full of herself!!!!😂 Make more pls!😆😆😆😆🥰🥰🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩🤩
*+Beaux
April 23, 2022
I loved it and soon I'm going to a horse party and ride some horses 🐎
Birdie
April 19, 2022
Cory is amazing! Cherry is a great character to build self confidence. Hiedi is very calming and relaxed and Vaya is a little shy but she's working on it. Such good characters. Love it!
Ala
April 18, 2022
Loved the story! Made me drift straight off to sleep 😴. I just came back from holiday and I saw a pony! So this really set the mood. Thanks for the story Cory make more. Can you make one about like a trampoline park or some kind of activities in the pool? 10/10! Thanks 😊 Christina ❤️🐴🐎🏇
Ariel
April 18, 2022
Very nice 😊
kaylinn
April 17, 2022
So good
Kerry
April 16, 2022
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Julia
April 16, 2022
That was great I have seen horses getting shoes befor at my barn I also love riding horses i ride every week
Ben
April 16, 2022
Cute!!!
Mallory
April 15, 2022
That was really good. Can I ask why did you not post any meditations in a long time?
