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A seasoned Real Estate professional, combining experience, resources, and skills to create personalized journeys for clients.

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Gather the herd. Join us Oct 24 for a great cause.

Join us for an evening of community, conversation, and connection as we officially launch the Great Escape Legacy Project at our place right here in Longmont CO.

This free event is our way of inviting you to learn about the horses who call our sanctuary home. Through photos, stories, and video, you'll get to know the remarkable members of our sanctuary herd, discover their individual journeys, and learn why lifelong sanctuary matters.

Enjoy German-fare from the Schnitzel Wagon food truck (vegan, vegetarian and GF options available), local beer and cider, live music, and great conversation with fellow horse lovers and supporters. Whether you've been part of Great Escape for years or are just discovering our mission, we'd love to spend the evening with you.

There is no cost to attend. If you're inspired to support the Legacy Project, opportunities to give will be available, but our greatest hope is simply that you'll come, connect, and help us celebrate the beginning of something that will protect our sanctuary herd for the rest of their lives.

Learn more here: https://www.greatescapemustangs.org/sanctuary-herd

And join us October 24 here:
Little Hawk Ranch
8922 N 39th
Longmont CO
80503

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Hello October, introducing our highly coveted annual Women’s Issue with our cover star “Miss Peggy.” To know her, to be in her presence is a true gift. She is an angel on earth and we are so honored to have her be part of our Women’s issue!

Cover story: @lindenbutrym
Photography: @oldblackkettle

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✨THE TANNER UPDATE WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR✨
Tanner was release back to his herd! A huge thank you to all that sent him love and healing on his recovery from his emergency eye removal surgery! An extra shout out to Michelle and Carson of the Great Escape Mustangs team for hauling him and caring for him during his recovery, Lori and Jim for being sanctuary guardians, and our veterinarians who were there to support him so quickly. The herd missed him and welcome him back in right away.
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@sander.michelle @csfhorsemanship @littlehawkranch

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My latest 100 Days to Greatness class graduation and launching lunch celebration. With @janetleaprealestate @remaxofboulder
#weareouttherekillingit
#100daystogreatness
#realestate
#launch
#supportingtheprocess
#remax
#agentssupportingagents

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Incredibly fun week in Tahoe with a visit from @angrybovine and @sander.michelle

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The wild-to-willing process 🐴⛰️🌲🌞💖

This is a friendly reminder that the gentling process is not yet complete when you pick up your gentled/TIP trained Mustang from a trainer.

Newly gentled wild horses are just that: Wild horses with a few new skills and hopefully a different perspective on humans. They are not suddenly domestic horses with a wild past.

What does that mean for you, if you're the adopter/owner bringing your new Mustang home, or a trainer who has been tasked with facilitating the next step in the once wild horse's training?

It means that most likely (with the exception of a few special horses that own the ground they walk on, no matter where they go, and step off the trailer ready for their next adventure) it's going to take 2 weeks, yes, TWO WEEKS of consistent handling - actually doing something productive with the horse rather than parking it in a pen and feeding it - for that Mustang to comfortably do with you what it was able to do for the original trainer at that trainer's facility.

But why, didn't you just pay to have that horse gentled?

Because they can't generalize yet. That's why. They have learned that a certain few people won't eat them, and to perform a select number or behaviors in a specific setting. They have not yet learned to transfer that to all people in all environments. They barely had the chance to let their guard down for the first time in a long time. Now you're loading them up, and hauling them to yet another place, away from the friends they just made, and all the things they finally got accustomed to. You bet they're going to be rattled. I'd bet that you didn't pay that trainer for an extra month or two and their fuel to take your new equine partner on field trips to expose them to all sorts of different sights, people and sounds. If you want that, please discuss with your trainer.

So when you get that horse, and it acts like it's wild again, but you saw it perform certain tasks and act gentle around people, then no, it's not gone feral. It needs you to guide it through the adjustment period. Actively. By all means, contact your trainer if you're stuck. A decent trainer will probably aftercare ...

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Yesterday May 26 at 8:20pm mountain time this embodied opportunity of “mine” (aka: “I”) began its second half decade. It was a fantastic day. Full. I was literally overwhelmed many times over the day. With how incredibly fortunate “I” am. Especially as this 50-milestone comes after the last 18 months spent engaged in a really focused effort to shape my opportunity in this life anew. Fueled by space given. And guidance revealing. From both visible and invisible sources. This kind of language may seem a bit “new agey” for many but it’s all from the heart and my best articulation of what I’d call true. So, yesterday was full. I caught up with friends who live afar. I played a bit. Centered a bit. Exercised a bit. Connected with the wild a bit. Got to unwrap a box of love from my parents - over Zoom. And be real with them about what I’m learning and who this work is showing me I am and what I’m here to do. As it unfolds. Then, in the evening, right at the exact time of taking birth 50 years ago, I shared in a socially distanced “loose council” with some of my dearest human animals who live near me now. And asked that they say something about me. And they did. And it was humbling. It was just a very special of special days. Overwhelming for this guy I’m coming to better and better know. But necessary. And believe me, truly, I express my gratitude for how fucking good I have it. Life on life’s terms means also accepting the good flow with the tougher phenomena. Owning and appreciating and taking that just as I accept the tougher things I’ve been finally healing. For Wholing. To continue walking “my” path into existence in more and more service. If I should continue to be so “lucky.” Thank you for reading this. Thank you to @angrybovine family for hosting, and to @barlito for the time lapse capture. Thanks to the invisible real. And the visible. Here’s to doing our best with what we have. For cocooning when necessary. For becoming again and again. For feeling all of it. Knowing death is necessary. And on and on. ❤️🦋🐲⚡️

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It was a good day today! Got Ferd worked, and he’s teaching me a lot about myself, and how to be even lighter than I thought I could ever be. He’s one subtle, smart horse that’s for sure. I also worked Pete, and he’d been just kind of hanging out since I got him, but I finally had some time to work him, and we got a first haltering! Really proud of how he’s coming along. Also got my Mom back to riding Wren today, her Salt Wells HMA mare, and they did wonderful, and we even went for a nice little ride in the pasture!
#greenmountainhma #saltwellshma #goodhorsesmaketheworldgoround #125dollarhorse #blmmustangs #springtimeincolorado #csfhorsemanship

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Time flies. 19 years with this one. And looking forward to many more. #anniversary #luckyguy #loveyoulady

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Somehow we are here. 18 years ago this little peewee joined our world and made us a family. It has been the greatest joy of my life to watch her develop into the amazing young woman she has become. Boulder is lucky to have you and it fits you so well, kiddo. I know you will make the most of the opportunities in front of you and enjoy these next 4 years like none before them. Open your mind, your heart and your soul and let the experience enrich your world. We will miss your presence in our everyday lives but are so excited for you. Eternally proud of you. Love you, Gigi.

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Great Escape Mustang Sanctuary visits Friends

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If you would of seen this horse a few months ago you would see the change in her now. She is way more trusting of me and has a gentle eye now! #SheIsMyFavoriteMustang #SeniorSunday @great_escape_mustang_sanctuary

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