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News from WCC Morgans

Hi Members. I see new faces among some of our meetings. That's a welcome sight. I hope you enjoy the interaction and love we all share of our Morgan horses.I want to express my appreciation to Connie Hickey for picking up the Publicity Secretary position to help keep our club informed with our monthly newsletter. She has been doing a great job and we need to keep her informed so she can get information and news out in the Tales. And wasn’t the format cute? I love it. Thanks Connie!!!!

Speaking of news, I want to let the members know that my daughter, Jenny, whom many of you know, will be getting married on October 10th. We will be flying down early that week. She is living in North Port, Florida and will have a beach wedding. I look forward to the wedding and experiencing sun again. I certainly haven’t seen much sun in Illinois. Cindy, the young filly I bought at the sale a couple years ago is doing extremely well under the excellent training she is receiving from Kathy Mayes at Cotton Hill Farm. Now her owner has to catch up. And I will! But I am finding that it is a little harder to teach an old dog new tricks. We had a wonderful meeting at the Brunk Museum last weekend. It was very informative and the chicken & noodles were fabulous. All the food was good, but I am partial to chicken & noodles. I am looking forward to the July 4th show. Hopefully, I will see many of you there.

My best to all of you and try to stay dry.

Brenda Whiteman

 

Voice of VonderLind

VonderLind Morgans little filly Mia (No registered name yet) was born on May 24th, 2009! (Sorry, I was suppose to help with the horse show that day and ended up stay home to the birth of a filly) The cute little filly is out of One Exception (Sable) and Heatherwald Wingman. This is both Sable's (age 19) and Wingman's first foal! We were hoping Mia was going to be as sweet as her sire, but boy were we wrong! She is a little spitfire like her momma!! Poor momma gets a little tired of Mia running around her in circles over and over. Sable just stares at me and yawns, maybe trying to tell me she is TOO OLD for all this dizzy running! She has been a perfect mother for her first foal! We are proud of the both of them! Mia, once registered will be put in the Morgan Futurity too! If you ever want to come visit our new filly or horses just send me an email!

sarahlindaman@yahoo.com

 

Busy’s Been Busy

Busy Signal was busy the week of June 15-19. He was one of  two horses used for Garage-a-

Palooza (kind of like Vacation Bible School on caffeine) at South Side Christian Church in

Springfield. Twenty grade school children got the chance to work with horses at the event. They were taught differences in tack, grooming, riding and driving. Several adults also got the opportunity to drive Busy ( including his paternal grandmother’). All in all, Busy gave about 40 drives in a two day period. His mom and dad are proud of how well he behaved and represented the Morgan breed. The best part of Garage- A-Palooza for Busy was of course the 20 lbs. of treats the kids kept giving him!

 

Horner Corner

Hi there from the Horner's! We have been busy since last month. Of course, Dr’s appointments have topped the list but we are both doing better each day! Again we want to thank you all for prayers and words of support! It seems to me that we have a bigger family within our Morgan Friends than we have real family and in these days and times that means a lot! Rain seams to be the order of the day for many days, but the hot weather is now here! In Jacksonville they have a big 3 day Civil War re-enactment here in the park. Well the Morgan horse was there. They had about 40 head of horses there and they told how many in each breed and the Morgans were in force with 19! I went to talk to a couple of people from Iowa and Missouri with Morgans. They were all in awe of how well the Morgans handled the cannons and the gun fire each time! It was a good time. A little warm, but nice. Terry and I have been going to  horse/pony sales over the last month, many in Amish country, We haven't found the right one yet, but I am sure it won't be long before we find something we want to bring home! Tack is the big thing to spend money on for now! We are hoping to see all everyone at the shows and we are looking forward to the days and evening sitting with friends around the table at State fair. Summer is going fast.

Terry & Darlene Horner