This message is from: "Ursula Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As many of you know we, at Trinity Fjords have been hosting a few Fjord Folks for driving weekends here in beautiful British Columbia.
This past weekend we finished this summer project with two great people from Colorado ---Beth Biemer and Sandy North from Starfire Farm. We had a great time. Brian hitched every conceivable combination of hitches. tandem, four-in-hand, unicorn, pair & singles. We also had fun doing single & pair log skid of the timed variety and the skill variety (1ft 2ft & 3ft pulls) We also set up the advanced draft test and Brian and Beth drove those with singles. It was 'a weekend to die for' especially for drivers. Sandy and I tended to be the critical (colour)commentary, videographer/photographers, cook & support (IOW the usual gophers) Sandy recorded the whole weekend on video. We also took update photos of our two stallions Raynor and Stein. We will update our website shortly with those. For those if you drivers out there...look out....Beth is an up-and-comer in the driving world. She is a superb horseperson in her own right already and is working on her driving skills BIG TIME. Her horses are young but she will bring them along 'right' and in the future will be giving everyone a run for their money. Trinity Fjords was like Grand Central this morning. Rune Lassessen (Hestehaven) was here picking up his horse 'Joe' who was here for driving training (we miss him already) He is a Pinto but a Fjord at heart and treats fences like Fjords too. Rune took my young stallion Penfrydds Raynor to Anne A. for a few months of riding training. They all left within a 1/2 hour of each other (Beth & Sandy to Vancouver to catch their flight back to Denver) & Brian back to the hospital and his work....So today, the place seems deserted. Only 8 Fjordies left on the place and a whole lot of empty feelings and stalls. We will now concentrate on getting the four-in-hand ready for the High Country Pleasure Driving Show in Calgary at the end of the month and then the Victoria Horse Trial the middle of Sept. This will be OUR TIME. The four are getting in shape and thus far are sound. We will miss going to Libby but will try to go again for 2000. Good luck to all of you who WILL be there. Jim H. will be a good judge for you as always. We will get all the news from our son Aaren who will be there as the Announcer as always. ON ANOTHER NOTE: I am thrilled with the amount of discussion about Evaluation lately and would join in if there were about 10 more hours in each day. What do you all think about compiling the results of the last 5 Evals into one book along with some explanation of the history and other relevant information. Have the format of the book such that we can add future results in booklet form and add into a Binder ALSO have a Stud book of the same format to add to the Binder and maybe an official Guideline for New Owners in the same format to put into the binder. All info nicely bound and binder-ready and organized. What do you think? How many of you would pay $25 per copy for each of these books? On the International front this type of published info would say "North America has Arrived "....these are our horses and this is what we do with them". Breeders would have vital info at their fingertips and all this info would be available to all who are interested in maintaining the integrity of this Breed .. nationally and internationally. This type of project is being considered and it would be interesting to get a feel for the demand. Please let Mike or I know so he can take a rough number to the BOD to convince them that this is a worthwhile project and a place to apply membership dollars. The initial outlay for this type of printed matter is costly so interest needs to be reflective. There are many of us that would value this type of publication but as always the BOD is skeptical about demand. Let's send them a message. Ursula & Brian Jensen Trinity Fjords Box 1032 Lumby BC Canada V0E-2G0 http://okjunc.junction.net/~ujensen/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (250) 547-6303
