"Chosen by a Horse" by Susan Richards is another good horse/woman-grappling-with-middle-age book. Loved her sense of humor. Warning: This book has made people cry.
Marilyn
P.S. Were any of you Black Stallion fans when you were kids? I was. The books; not the movie. Tho' I loved the first movie.
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From: lauraafana <quiltedpony@att.net>
To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, February 28, 2010 8:50:08 AM
Subject: [haflingerfriends] Re: OT/Book
Thanks for sharing this information. I can't wait to read both of these books. By then, Dawn may have written her's (hint, hint).
Laura in Cal.
--- In haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com, "Sue" <sholland91@ ...> wrote:
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> Julie, I read that book too, and loved it. I also read the book the author wrote before it called The Glass Castle, which is really good, too. The author, Jeannette Walls, has horses herself. I checked out her website and she has some videos on YouTube that were filmed at her ranch in New York.
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> Sue Holland
> Shadow Hills, CA
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> --- In haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com, Julie Wilson <wilsonjz@> wrote:
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> > Sorry for your loss Dawn but I sure enjoy reading your posts. Even in the event of this loss, your horses are incredibly lucky to have the freedom you are able to allow them. Don't beat yourself up, s__t does happen now and then.Â
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> > Slightly off the topic, I have to comment that I just finished a great book last night called "Half Broke Horses" by Jeannette Walls, a true life story of the author's grandmother who grew up in the western united states through the earlier 1900's. Getting to read a book now and then is a guilty pleasure for me because life can be so busy, but, haflinger friend ladies everywhere would enjoy it - I swear. Besides that, as I read your posts this morning Dawn, I feel like they are a continuation of that very book I just finished.
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> > In the meantime, keep on trucking Dawn, spring time is on the way!
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> > Julie in snowy SE MI
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> > --- On Thu, 2/25/10, rivervalleyph <rivervalleyph@ > wrote:
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> > Subject: [haflingerfriends] Re: First 2010 Foal at Rivervalley is tragic...
> > To: haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com
> > Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:14 AM
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> > Hi Everyone,
> > Thanks for your kind words. I understand that you all have a "solution" to this, as I think the same at times, then I realize, it is how it is at this point. Donkeys don't work for us. There is actually a Llama farm up here and they too loose them to the nasty critters that are hungry. However, what I failed to tell you, sorry, is that the mares, young and older (bred mares and young stock) are out there with over 60 head of cows and they are not on my land. This is winter pasture I have for helping haying, with cattle, ect. for the neihbors throughout the summer and winter months. It is really a blessing in saving my hay cost as the neihbors are feeding them as well. So, putting other critters with them would make an issue, besides, honestly it could have happened right here too.
> > However, I do appreciate the ideas and yes I have thought many times over about the same things. I however have two good big dogs that protect them when they are home and at the least let me know when something is wrong that they can't take on. But still, they were not home, and the mare was "early" as I wasn't sure when she got bred. The studs got out more than once last year....and all the other unwanted mares that got bred were aborted if I thought they got bred. However, I did not think this mare got bred until a few months ago I noticed she was wider than usual for an open mare. But as for when, well I seriously thought it was a later foal. The other mares that I did breed on purpose, two for sure are bred, are not bagged up at all and are not due till next month, which I know is just around the corner.
> > So, here I am. Still hurt, mad a bit, and feeling terrible for my mare. She is a super mom and I hope she settles down and eats soon. Now the other point I forgot to mention is that another mare was by her side when I found her. The other mare would run to the me then to her and when I took the foal, she followed and hollered as much as the mare whose foal it was. Neat to see how mothernature works some times. The other mare took her back up the mountain to feed and hopefully she helps her. Now the other strange thing is that mare is not even mine, she is however a mare I saved this summer for the neihbor as she ripped her shoulder out and I spent 4 hours sewing her up layer at a time. She was never socible to me after that- haha- but yesterday she was the first to tell me and show me where Folly was. She stuck to her like glue the whole time and that is really neat.
> > Just a few months back I had a now coming two year old gelding get attacked by a cat or a bear we think as he was run through fences and found in another pasture, down, and hurt severely. We had spent days looking for this colt, knowing he was misssing, and i decided not to put him down but spend the money and time to doctor him. He is home, in a corral in the back of the "little old barn" (one of three barns here) and healing is still super slow, but much better then he was. I do not know if he will be 100% sound yet or not, as I do not ask him to trot or do much still. Just doctor away. But my point is that I still feel (and this could be wrong) that the horses are better off out in mountain pasture to grow and mature, get excercise and learn and when there is problems then I begin to wonder if i am right. However, I have seen many cripples in pens and overfed and under excercised, so what is better? The horses that make it are far better off I
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> > The only way to make it better, if the other horses weren't out there would be to put the stud with them. Last year I had the studs and geldings up there and no one got hurt. Merl takes care of buisiness! But even now I don't know that he could have saved the colt for Folly. Will never know. But like I said I will be bringing them home, as planned, within the week I hope- I moved the date ahead! I did want the bred mares home for foaling as it is hard to find them up there. Miles of pastures, streams, beds, up and down country, ect. make it hard to find one if they go off.
> > Anyway..thanks for letting me share....ramble. ...whatever I just did! I will be back later. Need to go work on fences, thpough it is 1 degree and the wind is blowing our foot and a half of snow everywhere! YUCK!
> > Later,
> > Sincerely,
> > Dawn
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> > --- In haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com, "Molly McD" <mollymcdonald@ ...> wrote:
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> > > Oh Dawn, I'm so sorry! You're right, that life is not for everyone.... .you're one tough cookie! That must have been awful!! Don't think for a minute that anyone thinks you "bored" us with your story, and don't apologize for sharing, let us share your burden. Write again about the same thing as needed, it'll help to talk about it.
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> > > Molly in Ohio
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