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| Christmas at Tullibardine Farm Chinooks, New Sharon, ME U.S.A. |
This Post to serve as my beginning Archival Christmas sharings then, for I took a look again at some of my own Christmas Pasts today in photo albums as I continue to unpack them... So here's some mid to late '90s Tullibardine Farm Chinooks images here, 'for days of Auld Lang Syne!'...
MERRY CHRISTMAS, ONE AND ALL!
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| The Dog Room: Perry Greene Bates Argenta (L), Northdown Triska (C), Northdown Denali II (R) |
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| Northdown Lady (fore), Bates, Triska, Denali (L-R on couch). |
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| Northdown Lady (Timbermist Yukon Jack x Glendon's Sweety) |
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| Northdown Lady (center), Northdown Sabre (left), & Northdown Lance (Sabre & Lance-- North Wind Nome x Northdown Paleface) |
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| Santa's Sleigh one year was in fact our first Moody sled, Tullibardine purchased from Harry Gray, Northdown Chinooks! |
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| Moody made them both strong and beautiful, eh? | | |
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| Northdown Lady (left), Northdown Nugget (F2 dau. of F1 Northdown Timba) |
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| My sister, Marilyn, playing Santa to our Norwegian Fjords, 'Marta' of Fjelltorp (left) & Skoal Farm Hjalmar 'Jr.' (right). |
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| Jack R. Murray (my brother and Tullibardine Farm LLP gen partner), TRAMP (Percheron x Morgan draft horse), my sister Marilyn playing Santa |
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| Me (left front), Jack (rear, haltering Eske's 'Odis'), Marta, Marilyn/Santa, & 'Jr' (right). This may be my only photo w/all 4 Tullibardine equine beloveds therein w/both me and Jack also in view, w/Marilyn/Santa to boot! | |
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| Jack has owned many tractors in his life to date; But this was his all time fave-- I think it's his John Deere Model B, if memory serves. The mechanical 'work horse' of Tullibardine! |
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| First Kennel Runs & Xyard, before we built add'l 2 Kennels Structures in years to follow: Marilyn/Santa (center yard), & me (back to, right). All Runs were 4x12' or 12x12', w/gates opened onto 40' center Xyard. It worked really well for the first years, studs, dams, litters, & old timers daily xercise. We had real fun at Tullibardine, amongst every chore then too... The farm kitchens and sheds themselves were huge. One of woodsheds made comfy whelping/rearing space, and others came and went from the kitchens and 'dog rooms' (one of the also huge living rooms and the enclosed front porch). I miss this farmhouse now for it's sheer size and utility, yet no way could you heat such a structure in Manitoba winters! LOL! :) |
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