Alpharetta,
            GA October 15, 2001
             
          
              
            We had a good harvest of grapes and a beautiful day to pick them. 
            Using 2 radios, we listened to GA Tech football and the Atlanta
            Braves baseball at the same time while we picked. 
           
          
            Applewood
            Muscadine Grapes
           
          
            Laura
            pickin' & grinnin'
           
          
            A
            Gator-load of grapes
             
          
              
            Meredith Mack found a cute, completely tame, white and brown female
            rabbit sitting patiently at the farm entrance gates.  She
            lived in the tack room for a few days and was fun to feed carrots. She now
            has a good home with Leslie Crews who lives across the street. 
            Carl the Dog was especially interested in the rabbit.
           
          
            Carl
            the Dog and the cute rabbit
             
            
                  Winter Dressage Program
               
              
                Contact Applewood
                about our winter dressage boarding, training, and instruction
                program with Amanda Persons.  Lesson horses available.
                 
            
          
            Quotations...
           
          
              "We exult in our tribulations,
              knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance, and
              perseverance, proven character, and proven character, hope."
              - Romans 5:3-4
             
            
              "The greatest mistake you can
              make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
             
            
               - Elbert Hubbard
             
            
              "It is better to know some of the
              questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
             
            
              "In the end it will not matter to
              us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us
              greatly on what side we fought."
             
            
               - G.K. Chesterton
             
            
              "Courage is not the towering oak
              that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens
              in the snow." - Alice M. Swaim
             
            
              "Far better it is to dare mighty
              things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by
              failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither
              enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight
              that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
             
            
              "Computers can figure out all
              kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just
              don't add up." - James Magary
             
            
                "Our greatest glory is not in
                never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -
                Confucius
                 
            
          
                  "So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family
                  parrot to the town gossip."
                 
                
                   - Will Rogers
                 
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            Michelle Gibson gave an exhibition ride at the ABIC/USDF Regional
            Championships last weekend.  Held in the Olympic equestrian
            park in Conyers, GA, it was the first opportunity  for the
            public to see World of Dreams, Michelle's new Hannoverian stallion. 
            They put on quite a show for the spectators on Saturday. 
           
          
            Michelle
            and Indy Saturday 10-13-01 
             
            
              Airborne again
             
            
              The best reward, a pat on
              the neck
             
            
              Indy seemed to enjoy the
              crowd
               
            
                Cheryl Williams and Laura
              Thatcher staffed Applewood Foundation's display table at the show. 
              They handed out literature and answered questions about the
              foundation.   
             
            
              Cheryl and Laura collected
              donations in Indy's feed bucket
               
              
                "Each of us makes his own weather; we determine the color
                of the skies in the emotional universe which we inhabit."
               
              
                 - Fulton J. Sheen
               
              
                  "Some things have to be believed to be seen."
                 
                
                   - Ralph Hodgson
                 
                
                  "Let us run with patience the
                  race that is set before us." - Hebrews 12:1
                 
              
              Your contributions can make
              a winning  USA
              Olympic campaign possible.  Visit
              www.applewoodfoundation.org
              and find out how you can be a part of the dream today.
             
               
                GOD BLESS AMERICA
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