A talented friend of ours, Robb Roberts, created a prototype for the floor piano. He put a hinge at the front attaching a piece of wood the width of a key extending onto the key. He also placed a round …
Bob, our farrier, was here yesterday. As I stood there holding each horse my mind easily drifted back to when they first arrived here as weanlings. Trimming then was very entertaining! Nowadays Zelador and Zeloso are pleasantly boring.
Except six-year-old …
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Saturday Bill and I rode the boys. He remarked several times that Zelador and Zeloso (born in 2004) had matured beautifully this past year. I mentioned that Christi McQuaker commented Friday that when horses became six years old, things improved!…
Bill returned from a week-long Frank Bell Clinic near Tuscon, Arizona. He enjoyed the ride around the mountain and the team penning, and, of course, riding several times each day! He said there was a brindle coloured cow that liked …
I sent Bill to a Frank Bell clinic (Nov. 7-14) near Tucson, Arizona.
Obviously he’s enjoying it! The deal is: I go next year for this clinic and Bill goes for the “advanced” clinic. Usually they’re back-to-back at the White …
During August we decided to raise money for Toronto Cat Rescue. Within a few days of that decision Amanda and Alex started training the barn cats to perform in the show. To everyone’s amazement the cats started learning tricks. The …
Here are the Men Doing Dressage at the fundraiser October 17th. As our announcer Kenneth Hodges said, “You don’t see this every day… and there’s a reason for that.”
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I told Bill about teaching the boys “hand”. We were both doing liberty work with Z and Z. I demonstrated with Zelador. A few minutes later her announced (pretty much like HE had thought up this technique) that Zeloso REALLY …
Etienne Leroy (a French Classical trainer) will be here at the end of November. He’ll be in Quebec and Toronto.
Etienne worked with Zelador and Zeloso in 2008 and we’re looking forward to his upcoming visit. He emailed that he’d …
I’m working on a submission for the Canis Film Festival. My entry has horses learning how to touch something and progressing to touching a noise maker with the “orchestra” as the grand finale. Well, the deadline for entries is December …
Here are some photos taken by Ann Clifford of the pups at six weeks and four days of age. All of them are now in their new homes. It’s very quiet around here!
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Here’s the email we received from the Toronto Cat Rescue:
Just wanted to send you a big Thank You from everyone at TCR! We all had a great time on Sunday and the grand total we raised was $1319!!
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A few days ago (Monday October 18th) Breakfast Television came to Winsong Farm. The BIG van arrived around 5:30 A.M. with Jennifer Valentyne pulling up the farm laneway before 6:00. This adventure was set up by two enthusiastic BT groupies, …
