Happy Earth Day

2007-04-22 Thread Nancy Blauers
This message is from: Nancy Blauers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today is Earth Day. Does anyone really care? A flashy sportcar zipped past me as I was driving the other day...it's driver, hair dancing wildly back forth in the cool morning air, glanced my way for a brief moment as they snapped a

Happy Earth Day

2007-04-22 Thread Nancy Blauers
This message is from: Nancy Blauers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today is Earth Day. Does anyone really care? A flashy sportcar zipped past me as I was driving the other day...it's driver, hair dancing wildly back forth in the cool morning air, glanced my way for a brief moment as they snapped a

Re: Another great You-tube videop

2007-04-22 Thread Reena Giola
This message is from: Reena Giola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ellen I agree about the bull fighting, I don't like it nor enjoy seeing it but it is a tradition in Spain..but I was just amaze at the horse.WOW, OH WOW...is that horse responsive. I wonder how often though the horse gets

Re: Another great You-tube videop

2007-04-22 Thread Reena Giola
This message is from: Reena Giola [EMAIL PROTECTED] oops, I just posted about it being in spain, didn't realize that was Portugal. horse was still amazing! R I apologize for posting that, but I had read about Portuguese Equestrian Bullfighting, where the bull is NOT killed, but the

RE: Another great You-tube videop

2007-04-22 Thread Gail Russell
This message is from: Gail Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw a horse bullfighting routine on TV. (I do not actually remember the bull being hurt). In that video the horse was even more athletic, literally winding himself around the bull. I remember thinking how the horse put our dressage queens

when to decide it all has been enough??

2007-04-22 Thread Griet Vandenbroucke
This message is from: Griet Vandenbroucke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone from warm and sunny Belgium, I have a question to you all but first I want to excuse my bad english. I have 2 Fjords and one shetland pony, the shetland must be around 20 years old. A few years ago he started to have

FHI-Notice Of General Assembly 2007---- International Guests

2007-04-22 Thread Ursula Brian Jensen
This message is from: Ursula Brian Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings from Brian Jensen; The BOD of Directors of FHI call all members to the General Assembly on Weds, May 2nd 2007 at 1900 hours, in Nordfjordheid Hotel, 6770 Nordfjordheid, Norway. The proposed agenda is available on the

RE: when to decide it all has been enough??

2007-04-22 Thread Gail Russell
This message is from: Gail Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] My general disposition is towards early, rather than late euthanasia. I have kept two dogs alive longer than I should have. In looking back, it was obvious that they should have been put down earlier, even though I was saying to myself (and

Re: when to decide it all has been enough??

2007-04-22 Thread jgayle
This message is from: jgayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Griet, Having had to put the love of my horse life down last winter, it is a very very hard decision. (made too many times as an animal lover of 82 years) We have the agony of the decision and the horse has the agony of the illness. Which is

RE: Another great You-tube videop

2007-04-22 Thread kelly MacDonald
This message is from: kelly MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agreed, it wouldn't be fun to be that bull, but that was very impressive riding. That horse was so athletic! To make this Fjord related - today was the first day my Fjord and I practiced the cross country training we left off with in

Fjord Art Wanted for Book

2007-04-22 Thread Vanessa N. Weber
This message is from: Vanessa N. Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, William Secord, an expert in animal art, is looking for paintings of horses that were done before 1950. He is looking for 'portraits', and doesn't want them of horses doing anything (i.e. driving, jumping, hunting etc). If

Re: Another great You-tube videop

2007-04-22 Thread Lois Berenyi
This message is from: Lois Berenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought the bull must have had dressage training as well. My concern was for the horse. We saw a bullfight in Spain where the horses wore heavy leather padding. In this Portuguese video I thought the risk to the horse was greater than

Re: fjordhorse-digest V2007 #93

2007-04-22 Thread CrystalZak
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 4/22/07 8:12:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spend a personal moment with your planet, your Earth, your home.. Feel something? Then DO something! i try. i keep my impact to a minimum, try not to generate a lot of

Grabb line

2007-04-22 Thread Linda Taylor
This message is from: Linda Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] My lovely Sigrid, by Nils out of Stina, grandaughter of the magnificient Grabb, is a compact, drafty mare with a most beautiful head. She is a rare Red Dun. I love the drafty Fjordhorse. She may be short and stocky, but she is really smokes

Re: Grabb line

2007-04-22 Thread jgayle
This message is from: jgayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linda, I just finished trimming and using the shedding comb on Gunnar. After a scare about his condition during our very hard winter, he has come back and looks pretty handsome! I guess I have become accustomed to the drafty bit. I just wish he

Re: Spring Greetings Everyone!

2007-04-22 Thread Conerstonefjords
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I haven't written in along time as I have been teaching full-time this year w/ responsibilities for three programs! As our weather keeps improving and looking more like the spring days we dream so for I am reminded of my fjord friends. This