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Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and has a great start to their new year!
I’m not even going to say that I will be better about keeping things updated, because inevitably it won’t happen the way I intend. Hopefully, there will be more news and better news to prompt me to post to the news page more frequently.
Christmas and vacation time provided me an opportunity to do something I’ve been wanting to do for years . . . finally get the video from my camcorder tapes onto my computer! Yea!
So as a result, I have uploaded some Very early reining training video of my stallion Joe onto his page (http://www.sanddappaloosas.net/meetjoeblack.htm) via Youtube and also have a youtube page at http://www.youtube.com/sanddappaloosas with a couple more. I did finally get a couple uploaded to my web hosting server, but for now I’ll stick with the youtube links and see how that goes.
Found out UC Davis now has a test they can do for Dun and got myself all excited to test Ruby only to find out hairs are required from the sire and dam in addition to the horse in question. Guess will just have to wait until she has a foal with apparent dun factor and test the foal instead. Without the hairs from the sire and dam the test is not guaranteed accurate, so there is really no point testing when I have a more accurate idea just by looking at her. I’m 99.9% sure now that she is a dunalino (sire is a palomino and her dam is a red dun). Her dorsal stripe is very dark right now even with her winter coat and can’t wait to see how she sheds in the spring. Doesn’t really matter to me what color she is though, she is going to be a great mare once she stops hurting herself!
Speaking of Ruby, she must know when I am going to start getting her ready to start under saddle because she has managed to injure herself each of the times I was going to start her. This time was right at the beginning of my vacation. So, once again we wait until the injury is healed enough to try again. Have to make sure I don’t make any comments around her when the time is coming!
We have had some wild weather in our parts and while I loved the record breaking 71 degree day in January, I didn’t much appreciate the tornadic storms that came with it at the end of the day and into the early morning hours. Last total I heard was 20 some tornadoes touched down in our part of the state. We were fortunate enough not to have any damage, but I wasn’t pleased when I found out there was an F1 that touched down about two miles up the road from us.
I will have new app mare coming in the Spring and am really excited about her addition though still trying to decide whether I will breed her this spring or ride her. Will have more information on her soon.
My dad is the same–not much to say there except he is not on the road to recovery by any stretch of the imagination. I guess there has to come a time when we have to make a decision as to whether to continue to push (having the best interest of our parents at heart, but clearly not having any impact and only creating bad feelings) or just let them be and enjoy the remaining time we have with them in our lives. I guess I’ve chosen the latter at this point. It just amazes me as I talk to more folks in my situation how much our parents become like children.
Well, I guess that is all I wanted to catch up on, so until next time . . . .
Thanks for stopping by! Wishing everyone a prosperous and healthy 2008!
Toni
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