Sugarwood Farms

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01/30/2024

Dream Country house with huge stained horse frontage

01/10/2024

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01/07/2024

63 years ago today, Mister Ed premiered. It first aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1, 1961, to February 6, 1966. The show's title character is a talking horse, originally appearing in short stories by Walter R. Brooks. Mister Ed is one of the few series to debut in syndication and be picked up by a major network for prime time.
Comedian George Burns financed the original pilot for Mr Ed which was shot at his McCadden Studio in Hollywood at a cost of $70,000. Scott McKay played Wilbur. Jack Benny was also involved behind the scenes.
The show in effect had two leads operating as a comedy team. The title role of Mister Ed, a talking palomino, was played by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by former Western film actor Allan Lane. The role of Ed's owner, a genial but somewhat klutzy architect named Wilbur Post, was played by Alan Young. Many of the program's gags follow from Mister Ed's tendency to talk only to Wilbur, his skills as a troublemaker, and his precociously human-like behaviour that far exceeds anything those around Wilbur expect of a horse. A running gag is other characters hearing Wilbur talking to Ed and asking to whom he is talking. Another running gag centers on Wilbur being accident prone and inadvertently causing harm to himself and others. According to the show's producer, Arthur Lubin, Young was chosen for the lead role because he "just seemed like the sort of guy a horse would talk to".
The other main character throughout the series is Wilbur's generally tolerant young wife, Carol (Connie Hines). The Posts also have two sets of neighbors, to whom Ed delights in making Wilbur appear as eccentric as possible. They included the Addisons, Roger (Larry Keating) and his wife Kay (Edna Skinner), who both appeared from the pilot episode until Keating's death in 1963; thereafter, Skinner continued appearing as Kay, without mention of Roger's absence, until the neighbors were recast. During this period, Kay's brother Paul Fenton (Jack Albertson), who had made occasional appearances before, appears. Following the Addisons, the Posts' new neighbors were Col. Gordon Kirkwood, USAF (Ret.), portrayed by Leon Ames, Wilbur's former commanding officer, and his wife Winnie (Florence MacMichael). They appeared on the series from 1963 to 1965. In the final season, the Kirkwoods were phased out, while Carol's grumpy and uptight father, Mr. Higgins (Barry Kelley), who appeared occasionally throughout the entire series, apparently moved in with Wilbur and Carol during the final episodes. Mr. Higgins loathes Wilbur since Wilbur's quirky eccentricity always clashes with his own emotionless and uptight personality. Carol's father never stops trying to persuade her to divorce Wilbur, whom he often refers to as a "kook" because of Wilbur's clumsiness. Alan Young performed double duty during the final season of the series, also directing nearly all episodes.
Ed's ability to talk was never explained, or ever contemplated much on the show. In the first episode, when Wilbur expresses an inability to understand the situation, Ed offers the show's only remark on the subject: "Don't try. It's bigger than both of us!"
The Posts resided at 17230 Valley Spring in the San Fernando Valley

12/30/2023

Hi there!

12/27/2023

Looking forward to the new year to come 🎀

12/11/2023

DO YOU LOVE HORSES?

People get involved with horses and horse related sports for a myriad of reasons. Number one, is love of horses in general, coupled with interest, that for some, grows into a lifelong passion.

I am one of the passionate ones. I have loved and learned about horses for most of my life and now that I am over 60 I think…wow, time has sure flown by.

So many horses. Lesson horses; in the early days, Lightning, and Flame, Tulip, Little Chief, horses who all gave me knowledge and experience and fostered my interest even more.

Then race horses. Seven years worth. Winners, losers, the tryers, the slackers, the clowns, and the absolute sweethearts that told me with certainty that no horse should be pushed as hard as these horses are at such a young age. I could not change the sport so I moved on, with sadness for my four legged friends whose future I had no control over.

Problem horses next. The misunderstood, the angry, the fearful, the confused and uneducated. I learned so much trying to communicate my way through their problems. I was not skilled enough during this chapter of my life to avoid injury but I learned better procedures because of each one and no injury kept me down for long.

Then a chance. To work with horses who knew more than I did. Six years at The Arabian Nights Dinner Theater in Orlando. I learned SO MUCH during that time. My passion was reignited when I saw what horses were capable of. During that time I settled on dressage techniques to become what I most wanted to get good at.

KYB dressage my current training business was grown in the almost 30 years that followed. So many horses, my first, then second then 20 th Grand Prix horse and many many horses surrounding them. Each with information to share that I could add to my skill set. I kept learning and started to share my ways with others who wanted to learn as well.

Late late late. Too late, I started a rescue. I will say I was going through life with blinders on. Not realizing for every well cared for and loved horse there are three horses with naught. Horses with no food, no options and sadly no ability to survive in the world they were stuck in.

Now I do what I can. I am still learning, still training, teaching and caring for horses. I have students who want to learn to. I write all this because here is my message and thought for the day.

If you love horses, learn to care for them. Before you learn to ride. Become a servant to the horse and true understanding and knowledge, true horsemanship will flourish there.

In the barn, caring for horses.

Becoming a horseman is more important than learning to ride.

If you love horses. Make that your first goal!
Cheers,
Yvonne

12/08/2023

Magical ��

12/06/2023

"Two feet move your body, four feet move your soul".

11/20/2023

Love knows no obstacles 💙

11/01/2023

I love those 🌹

- When my instructor repeats to me: ′′Straighten your shoulders and open your chest!” He’s not just teaching me how to stand up. He's teaching me that in life we should always walk straight and face problems head on.

- When my instructor asks me to lower my legs and keep them close to the horse, he teaches me that in life we do not allow distractions and that little is enough to deviate from his path.

- When my instructor tells me "Too much hand, don't hang on to the reins! "He teaches me to give and not to take, with the greatest respect of others.

- When he yells and repeats endlessly: "Look forward in the direction you want to go!” He teaches me the importance of setting goals and never losing sight of them to achieve them.

- When I ask to move up or do more and my instructor says I'm not ready, he teaches me that in life you must always respect your rhythm and never skip the steps.

- When I fall and get back up, I learn that there are always setbacks, times when we back up, but the important thing is to get up more determined than before.

- If I hold my breath during a ride and he jokingly tells me "breathe! You are purple!” I understand that you have to let your emotions flow in order to get rid of them.

- When at the end of the course I am happy with the work done and my instructor says to me′ ′Well done, thank your teacher′′ I know he is not referring to himself but to my horse.

- Now you, you who are watching a rider pass in the saddle, keep saying that riding is not a sport because it is the horse that does everything. I agree. Horse riding is not a sport. It is a life lesson.

10/27/2023

10/26/2023

The thing is, this rein aid is like the letter “a” in the alphabet. You simply can’t start reading without knowing how it works and what it can do.