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		<title>Freya is weaned. Short video from last weekend.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She misses her mom and followed me around like a puppy. I think she is just going to be a wonderful mare. She is 6 months old now and entering the gawky &#8220;ugly Friesian&#8221; stage. I can hardly wait to see what butterfly will come out of the cocoon when she hits 3 years old. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago &#8211; mid 1990&#8217;s or so &#8211; I traveled to Europe and lot on business. I would come over for a week or two, then go back home, then a few months later come back for another few weeks. I did this for about 5 years. During that time, I worked mostly in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meinse 439 at Dressage in Lexington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my friend Sara and I went to Lexington VA to a dressage show. We went explicitly to see the KFPS approved stallion Meinse 439. Meinse, imported to America last year, is a 5 year old son of Heinse 354. People who know me know how much I loved Heinse, who died this past spring. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Videos from the 2009 Keuring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are of our horses. Tara made Ster with a 2nd premie. Ficus was 2nd premie and scored 7.5 on his trot. Freya achieved 2nd premie and was named Champion Filly. We had a nice day&#8230;.





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		<title>Tanbark Acres and the 2009 Keuring</title>
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We attended the keuring in Huntersville, NC yesterday and we had quite a good day!
First, thanks to the keuring hosts and organizers at Shady Nook Farm, as well as to Rick Simonetti who came down to help out. Everyone was just great.
Our horses had a wonderful day! Tara (Wander x Thomas), the 3 year old, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those crazy Aussies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure if this is true or not but it made me laugh out loud.
Actual Message on School Answering Machine in Australia.
This is the message that the Maroochydore High School, Queensland, Australia, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse transport day &#8211; Keuring prep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today my horse buddy Sara and I got up at 5am, loaded Dahlia and Tara, and headed down the mountain. Tara is going to the trainer, Wiebe Dragstra, to get fit for the keuring and learn some basic harness skills in the meantime. Anyone who follows my blog knows I think the world of Wiebe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to our new filly Freya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday morning May 15 2009 at 4:45 am I got a call from my friend Jill in Oregon. Jill had been helping with foal watch during the late hours and that night she volunteered to stay up until 5am EDT (2am her time). &#8220;Cori is having her baby and you need to get to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnant Cori getting her feet trimmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is day 339 of Cori&#8217;s pregnancy, which means she is due tomorrow. I have expected this baby for a week now and all of us who are staying up all night watching her on the webcam are getting pretty darned tired.
Today Blaine, the farrier, came to trim the horse&#8217;s feet. Dahlia went first, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New foal coming any day now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cori&#8217;s foal by Heinse 354 is due May 13, one week from today. But that mare is just about ready to foal. Last night I was watching the monitor and ran down to the barn at 2am, sure the baby was on its way. But, false alarm. Cori is staring to shuffle her back feet [...]]]></description>
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