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Horses, dogs and other
Photo Album Favorites—
We had horses
and dogs while growing up in the Kittitas Valley. Here are a few
pictures of these and other great friends, including those that
continue to share our lives today. Also, we encourage you to look
for your next pet at a local shelter or animal rescue agency. The
animals there are desperate for loving homes; remember, they need
you as much as you need them.
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Our little red hen with Bruce
Barbie and the Banties
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Rufus and friend
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Our Indy
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Little Lisa
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Where's Waldo?
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Dee Dee
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Zeppo
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Rufus and Bruce
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Sadie - Miss Sadiekins
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Barbara and Laddie
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Baba
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Sophia and Ali Baba
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A walk to the mailbox
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Sophia and Mitzi
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Barbara and Mitzi
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Tippy in the straw |
Urban and Max |
Tippy |
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Laddie
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Charlie
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Lucy & Charlie
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Tippy...Your devotion to us,
our love for you can never be destroyed. Your strong spirit unbound.
GO TIPPY to an eternal place of love. --12/11/88
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Our horses during the early years...
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| Shammie and Cuando. Cuando was a chestnut
Quarter Horse with a white blaze. His sire was Raven Boomer
and his dam was a pinto mare. |
| Stepper and Katie, June 1967. Stepper was
a Shetland/Appy cross. Supposedly, he was named Stepper because
of his natural single-foot gait. We believe it was actually
due to his tendency to step on our feet. |
| Sheba-Lea and Cory, June 1967 (above) and
August 1967 (below). Sheba, a registered half Arab, was Shammie's
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Cory with Sheba-Lea
Sheba-Lea and Shammie
Katie's Bud
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Barbie on Ester, the neighbor's pony.
Sophia on Stepper
Stepper
| I wanted very much to say something about horses and
how important it was that we (or at least speaking for myself--I)
had the opportunity to have several horses...the horses and
the places to ride them are the most important to me now...I
appreciate the freedom we had at home to explore (you might
say) on horseback. Pounding hooves and rushing winds!!!!--(KE,
11/17/81) |
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and later on...
Katie and Tanya
Ross and Zeke
Sammy with friends at Long Beach,
Washington, July 2000
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Sham with Barbara
In the ribbons!
Sham and Sammy - Winter 2003
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Those that remain in our heart
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White and chestnut horses in the dust of pole corrals
slip away with a childhood
gone on the wind through the valley below.
Dust, raised in the cloud of a gallop,
lifted in the puff of a stomp of a hoof,
lies buried deep in the shade of mature orchard growth,
lost in the humous of a decade of leaves. (C.E.)
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Morgen and Bruce, 1985.
Hasard, as a 2-year old, 1989.
Cory and Sky
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Cory, Hasard and the uke, Summer of 1999.
| I wouldn't have grown up any other way. My memories of
Cuando, Stepper, even Sheba are something I would never give
up. Morgen was another of those forgiving, comforting souls
one could bury one's face into--non-critical, loving, comfortable--the
smell, the warmth...we need them. (SE, 9/3/86) |
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