>>     HI JAN -- glad to see you're still lurking around here!!
 >> How's everything
 >> going with you??
 > Same old, same old.  Work continues to be crazy.  I still
 > get EQUUS, Mike
 > Plumb's Horse Journal, Practical Horseman, Dressage Today
 > and Horseplay to get
 > my horse fix.  Plus the gazillion catalogs that come as the
 > result of
    Hehehehehe ....... well, at least you are keeping up on everything !!
 > subscribing to all these things.  Every week I take the new
 > arrivals up to the
 > laundry room and read while my clothes are in the wash,
 > wishing I was out
 > riding instead.  
    I can relate to that!!  Besides -- look what GREAT reading material you
have while waiting for the hum-drum drudgery of doing laundry ;-)
 > EQUUS did a lead article a couple of issues ago (#238)
 > about how to cope with
 > losing your horses, and they're still getting letters from
    Yes, I read that -- brought tears to my eyes but in another way was 
ather
comforting to find out that there were others out there besides me and Meg 
ho
feel the same way about loosing their "best friend".
 > readers who have
 > lost their horses.  One I particularly remember from last
 > month's issue came
 > from a woman who was helped by having a printed article she
 > could give to her
 > family and friends who didn't understand why she was as
 > upset as she was.  It
 > made me glad that we could be here for you and Meg.  How
 > sad it must be to lose
 > your horse and not have *anybody* you know to talk to about
 > it that would
 > understand.
    I thought that was good too ....... and the little letter about the 
other
who found her daughter sleeping with her horses red halter really made me cry
...... not bad tears -- just tears that I fully understood WHY the daughter 
did
that.  I've found comfort just stroking something that belong to "Baby".  I
never told anyone that but don't feel so silly doing it now that I read that
other letter.  I just can't bring myself to let any of the other horses wear
anything that belonged to "Baby".  However, I did relent and let SEDONA wear 

show halter that I had bought for "Baby" but "Baby" never wore.
 > This month's EQUUS (241) is the 20th anniversary issue, and
 > has a big look back
 > on the first 20 years, with lots of sidebars containing
 > biographies of the
 > contributors and a nice photo spread of the staff members'
 > horses who have been
 > used as models over the years.
    Yes, isn't it a GREAT magazine this month??   I've really enjoyed it.
 > And boy, you can really tell Christmas is coming -- I just
 > got a holiday
 > catalog from Tack in the Box, and one came last week from
 > Back in the Saddle,
 > and I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting about.
    I've gotten quite a few "horsey catalogs" here lately too.  I LOVE 
ooking
at all the 'good stuff'!!  I'm going to buy my herd some Christmas stockings
this year.  AND, I've decided to decorate the barn ....... I have people 
coming
and going wanting carriage rides -- I thought it would be fun to have the 
arn
all decorated up for Christmas!
    Sure nice hearing from you again, Jan ...... take care now.
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