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		<title>SADDLE FITTING THOUGHT OF THE DAY: WESTERN</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although English and Western saddles couldn&#8217;t look more different, fitting them is relatively the same. Both saddles are constructed on a solid framework called a tree. The tree is what is fitted to the horse&#8217;s back. This is tricky, of course, because the tree is buried underneath all of its leather &#8216;clothing&#8217;. Knowing the distinct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SADDLE FITTING THOUGHT OF THE DAY: BALANCE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Balance is a crucial part of your horse&#8217;s training and use of body. How your saddle is (or isn&#8217;t) balanced directly effects these things. Your saddle is balanced when the deepest or flattest part of the seat is parallel to the ground. Be careful if you use the height of the cantle in relation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But I have found that I&#8217;m getting what I need. I have a musical background so I have songs running through my head &#8211; a lot. It&#8217;s like my own personal radio station that only plays the songs I need to hear, not necessarily the songs I want to hear. Hey Mr. DJ, how about something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Fly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but I ain&#8217;t got wings, comin&#8217; down is the hardest thing&#8230;Tom Petty really got it right &#8211; it&#8217;s the song that keeps looping through my head these past months. Tory and I have been home now for about 8 weeks and have made huge strides (pun somewhat intended) in working together. My right foot has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;indeed. My lapse in writing is due mostly to the lack of anything happening lately. I have been focusing my attention on keeping customers contacted, tracking orders and getting repairs done. The economy is taking its toll but we remain optimistic. Thank you to all of you who keep coming back!
 I have been riding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Thought of Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day late and a dollar short &#8211; VERY short, in this economy. I wrote this blog entry shortly after the Presidential Inaguration and didn&#8217;t publish it. Here are my thoughts from a month ago:
Without a doubt, this has been a momentus week. I&#8217;m not talking about anything I&#8217;ve personally done or have done with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, the weather outside is frightful&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but the riding&#8217;s real delighful! The weather has been frightful indeed! Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock (preferably one in tropical climes), you have a basic idea about how the weather has been reigning havoc this winter. Here in the Northeast, we have been hit with interchanging weeks of bitter, arctic -like cold, ice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fresh Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year everyone! The Christmas tree has been returned to the woods, the tree skirt had as much animal hair taken off of it as I could get, the tree lights are in working order for next year and there aren&#8217;t any Christmas cookies left &#8211; must be time to start a new year! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breads are back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least, that&#8217;s what the back cover of my bread recipe book a la 1970-something declares quite boldy. What does bread baking have to do with horses? Well, um, not much really but something about the downturn in the economy, slower business and skyrocketing bread prices (almost $4-$5 a LOAF?!) has me baking more bread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Change in the Weather</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many things I really enjoy about this time of year: good hearty crock-pot food, the amazing colors of the leaves, snuggly sweaters. There are other things that I don&#8217;t enjoy as much: the shorter days, the biting wind, the miserable damp weather. *sigh* Unfortunately, you can&#8217;t get one without the other. Riding has [...]]]></description>
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