Sarah on Pilatus and Stan on Sómi riding on our track.

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Left to right: Landi, Sómi, Pilatus, and Komma.

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Just before Christmas, 2002, Somi won his first blue ribbon in a novice dressage competition. He had been in the States for a little over one year. We were very proud of each other!

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A horse show at Town Hill. I was talked into going in a walk-trot class but we did not score well. That's to say I was told we really went well, but we did not have the right "look". Either the horse was too small or the rider was too tall. Take your pick. But it got me to wear a jacket and tie...

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Sarah and Stan toast each other after a beer tolt at the Fitch's Corner demonstration.

Big horses and little rumps!

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Just one of my favorite shots of Somi moving along, happy, hair blowing in his own airstream.

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Trying out Landi for the first time. Somi is watching carefully to see if he will have a friend to share the load.

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Somi and Landi in the paddock right after the trip home from the Icelandics on Ice tour where Landi decided to come home with us.

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Lawn ornaments when we visited our friends Kathy and Joel.

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Sómi tolting on ice for the first time -- at least in a hockey rink. And Stan, tolting on ice for the first time anywhere!

Sómi's first time on television. Not bad for a farmer's riding horse from Skagafjordur!

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A gait demonstration on ice, Stan was announcing on Sómi and thankiing Reynir Adelsteinsson.

Yes! The horses do poop on the nice fresh ice as soon as they get on it. How could they resist? Here's our crew of pooper-scoopers.

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Sarah and Stan on a "mixed" ride: Icelandics with the big guys.

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Stan brought Landi home with him from the Ice Show Tour. Landi is looking over his new digs. Imagine, a horse from Iceland, a place with no large trees...

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Sarah tries Landi. Thinks he's really OK.

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"Hey, Mundi, Tóti, this is a great place, good food and companions, but the trees around here are helvitis big!"

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The first real snow of the winter of 2003-04 and we had 18". These are our four riding horses, all raised in Iceland and used to this stuff.

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Rún watching over her herd which has a new member. As soon as we find out how to say "Rooster" in Icelandic, we'll name him. That is, if he stick around. He kind of just showed up...

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