This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Larson--
Thursday, November 04, 1999, you wrote: > This message is from: Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > New Mexico is growing! And to add another plug for the SW folks: All > Fjord breeders want to breed the best of the best. And we have some > great ones down here. > Still, without evaluations being available to us, how can we be > sure? Sure, we aren't the "Fjord Country" of the NW or NE. But we > have developed a respectable community. We'd like an opportunity to > share that community but we need the support of the older, more > established regions. How about it? Larson in New Mexico If you will recall, Sue Sorger was the only one to respond to my request for a show of hands for interest in an Evaluation in the Colorado Springs vicinity. People have to have an idea that quite a few folks are going to show up before even beginning to start to organize something of the magnitude of an Evaluation. There is now a fair size community of Fjord people in Colorado, and a fair size group in New Mexico. If you add in a handful from Eastern Wyoming, Western Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Northern Texas, Arizona, and Utah, you have quite a few Fjords within a reasonable haul from the Springs. However, if no one can even make the effort to hit the reply button on their email and say "I'd be interested in participating", then no one is going to go to all the trouble of putting together this kind of event. You can't expect other regions to bail you out on this, you have to do it yourselves. Those other regions didn't exist until they put themselves together, and they did it without the advantage of the Internet. You have a good vehicle here with the list to start to organize yourselves. It looks to me as if there are enough people down there to coalesce into as viable a group as there are in other regions. So do it! Email each other, organize, put the SouthWest Group together. Please don't think I'm picking on you Larson, you just happen to be on the other end of the reply button. -- Steve McIlree -- Pferd & Skipper -- Omaha, Nebraska, USA Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease... --Edward Plantagenet(1373-1413)
