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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Day Trail Ride</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.  We had lots of family time, and I managed a bunch of time with the horse.  New Year&#8217;s day was cold, but wonderfully bright and sunny, with no wind.  Perfect for a ride.





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		<title>Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early morning mist
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		<title>View from our mailbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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I was getting the photos off of the camera recently and saw this one.  I remember taking it earlier this summer, and thought I was unable to capture the double rainbow.  It was a pleasant surprise to see that I had.  We had a couple of weeks of storms, and almost every rainbow we saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elsny.wordpress.com&blog=2122175&post=114&subd=elsny&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rest in Peace, sweet Sunny</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The therapeutic riding program I am involved with lost their (our!) pony yesterday.  She was a once in a lifetime pony.  Sunny was donated to the program by a lovely family who had purchased her for their children.  The children lost interest, and the parents realized that she needed a job, and contacted us.  Somebody put a lot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elsny.wordpress.com&blog=2122175&post=88&subd=elsny&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bean has been really into fishing as of late. I mostly blame it on Curious George (which we have been reading every.single.night since Christmas &#8211; argh!).  She has a  really long stick that we sit with on the dock and put down in the water &#8211; that is our pretend fishing.  Our pond is really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elsny.wordpress.com&blog=2122175&post=83&subd=elsny&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work at home?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why yes, I did.  And I managed to get two documents re-written to reflect some upgrades we made here in the lab.  Bean was great.  I was pleasantly suprised, and think that I could get used to working from home more.  I admit that I kind of envisioned me up at midnight, clicking away on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elsny.wordpress.com&blog=2122175&post=61&subd=elsny&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Tracking the turkeys</media:title>
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		<title>Our Turkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We have a flock of turkeys that travel back and forth through our land a couple of times a day.  They are hilarious birds.  They make an absolute racket if they think they are alone.  They can be way back by the creek and you can be in the house and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elsny.wordpress.com&blog=2122175&post=48&subd=elsny&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equine Napoleon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new horse started boarding at the stable where I keep my guy.  I know this horse, he is retired from the therapeutic riding program I am involved with.  He is a super guy, and had I not already had my horse when he came to the program, I most likely would have taken him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elsny.wordpress.com&blog=2122175&post=37&subd=elsny&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look both ways before you cross the street</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my entire 16 years of driving experience, I have hit very few creatures.  The first incident remains burned in my memory.  It was late, late, late.  I was driving home after a rousing night hanging out at a dunkin doughnuts.  I was on RT46, maybe 3 miles from home, driving Herbert,  my little tan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elsny.wordpress.com&blog=2122175&post=5&subd=elsny&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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