This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Happy New Year to everyone on the Fjord List,
I am trying to get caught up on four months of the Fjord Digest and enjoying all the different topics. Our nice quiet stay at home this fall disappeared as I spent 4 days a week in Vernon , which is about 2 1/2 hrs north of here and close to Brian and Ursula, helping my sisters to look after Mom. Now that she is gone and Orville has learnt to cook and do a small amount of house cleaning I can get back to our Fjord stuff. While reading the different messages and clicking on websites I came across Bud and Tillies "Dun Lookin" page and seen some of the old pictures. The picture of Harold Jacobsen with the mare Lise brought back memories. This was the same picture that Harold sent us and as a result we bought two mares and foals. Lise is one of two mares and we later sold her to Chip Lamb. Lise's daughter Else, sired by Dragtind was sold to a couple in Hawaii and was our first big export. With Lise open we trained her to drive when she was 12 or 14 years of age and used her in our six horse hitch. The picture's from Germany probably came from Rhinehold Eitenmuller. He went to school in Texas for awhile and while in N. America came and seen us. Must have been about 79 or 80. Eitenmuller's where/are Fjord breeders in then West Germany. Their stallion was Heino and they did alot of demos at Equitana, etc then. I think the sidesaddle picture must be from them as well. In March of 1981 Helena Kelement and Orville and I flew to Germany and met Rhinehold at Equitana and watched them do their demo for the event. Met a bunch of German breeders at that time but don't remember the names now. Helena bought her six fillies from Germany and we went on to Norway where Helena bought her stallion Halstien and we bought Rudaren. During that trip looking at stallions for sale we seen and took pictures of Gjest, Myrstein (who was our third choice), Norulv, (our second choice), and many others mentioned recently on the Fjord List. The Dutch Stallion Nordal is a full brother to Norulv. We seen him on the next trip to Europe to buy mares. We have never wavered on our first choice of Rudaren. He has done everything in our breeding program that we expected from him and his grand/great/ great-great grandchildern. Next spring will see the next generation being born.. The picture of Orville holding Rudaren was taken by me when we lived in Bergen, Alberta. The next picture Orville took while I held onto Rusten and was in front of our house, built by a Norwegian, in Bergen. Rusty, as we all affectionally call him, brings back lots of memories. He taught me the proper way to handle stallions when breeding and always forgave me my ignorance and mistakes. He would work for me on voice commands alone and always a perfect gentleman. Orville was working as a Mud Engineer in the Oil Patch and was gone most of the time. Still miss Rusty even though our breeding program is based on Rudaren bred to Rusty's sisters. A full brother George, who was our very first Fjord in 1973, is going to be 30 years young this year. I am going to try and get our web page done now that I am home and hope to be putting lots of our old pictures on it. Enjoyed seeing the pictures and reliving old memories of friends and Fjords. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Norwegian Fjords "Disposition, Conformation, Versatility" PS I to have a pet peeve about Confirmation being used for Conformation. See it all the time.
