This message is from: cherylwhitfie...@cs.com PHILLIP Odden <n...@norskwoodworks.com> wrote:Hello Phil, how are you? Happy New Year. I certainly hope this new year will be a better one for me, sounds selfish I know but I need to think positive. So much I would like to tell you, but everytime I write to you I go over the time and the email expires and then I do not know how to send it so I will try to keep it short. I was wondering if Tim has paid you and all is well with you. I do not have any contact with Tim so I really do not know what is going on with him paying you what is owed. I just want to make sure all is good with you. I am moving to the country a little each day and will be there full time by the end of the month. Just me, Luton, the goats and the cats and dogs. It will be a major change for me and the animals, at least I have them to lean on. St. George is a very small town, but the people seem nice. I hope you have been out enjoying your ponies and the snow, tell Else hello for me and you two take care, fri! ends always, Cheryl
>This message is from: PHILLIP Odden <n...@norskwoodworks.com> > >This Message is from Phillip Odden in Northwestern Wisconsin. > >I have to agree with Laurie and Linda. The weather these past weeks >here in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota has not been good for riding >or driving. I was working ponies regularly up until about three weeks >ago but I gave in. The days are short, the temps are low and wind >seems to blow constantly. Even though I have a nice big indoor arena >now I decided it was time for me to take a break and it wouldn't hurt >my ponies to have a break as well. I turned the adult horses out to >pasture in one big herd. I put a bred mare Aina in a paddock with >Smedsmo for company for the winter. The two grays seem so happy >together. We can see them from our kitchen window and from the windows >of our studios in the barn. > >I have been spending my time making a new sleigh. This one is much >like the sleighs I have seen in museums in Norway. It is made for one >person to ride in, built close to the ground with a wide stance. The >sleigh is decorated with traditional acanthus leaf carvings that are >painted in transparent red, yellow, and green. The arm rests end in >dragon heads. It is very light weight. The runners and arches were >steamed bent and laminated. I will use my Norwegian harness with >wooden shaves. The saddle on the Norwegian harness has a carved saddle >with dragon heads. So, I have been spending my time dreaming you might >say. Yesterday I put three other sleighs on the ground. Well a bob- >sled and two sleighs. One of these days the weather will lighten up >and I will break trails for the sleighing season. > >When the weather straightens out I will have to hold some interviews >to see which of my show horses works best on the new sleigh. There are >four or five sleigh events within driving distance each winter. My >first rule is that it has to be fun to show or it isn't worth it. If >the temperatures are too low or the wind chill too high we won't go. >But that means we should make two or three of the sleigh events. I >expect the gelding Beorn will be the best of the bunch to pull this >little sleigh. > >So, it doesn't hurt to spend some time dreaming and making plans. In >fact way out on the horizon I can almost see next summer and I have >been thinking which CDEs, pleasure driving shows, and new trails I >want to explore. But for now we are hunkered down and taking it easy. > >Merry Christmas to every one. Phil Odden > >Important FjordHorse List Links: >Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e >FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw >Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
