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RainDancer, Kan Daanz and Taffie

Located East of Austin near McKinney Falls State Park, Dancer, KD and Taffie's home has offered great riding opportunities in the neighborhood and at McKinney Roughs.

Here's some photos of riding, and working with the horses.

Taffie history

Go Back Home • Go to Dancer's wheels & New Wheels • Sept 2002 • Steve Moore & Moonie

Dancer & Moonie movie March 2004

Movie of Dancer and Moonie coming in for supper • Movie of Steve working with Moonie

Watch movie of Dancer's reaction to Moonie getting to go through the gate and she didn't

2017

Chris and Jeannie out for ride

2016

Chris rode Taffie on last day of the year

New horsey neighbor visit

KD not doing well

Chris riding with Barbara and Jeannie

Chris is caring for Liz's horses and had the vet check out Taffie's weeping eye while she was inspecting Liz's horses

Chris and Barbara checking Taffie's eye

Chris and Jeannie riding with Bracken looking on

Chris and Taffie

Chris & Taffie out for ride with Jeannie • Bracken waiting Chris' return

Shirley & Jeff's open house • Chris, David & Jeannie • Jennie & Lauren • Taffie & Bracken

Chris leaving to ride with Jeannie & Bracken watching

Bracken out to see Chris• Chris & Taffie

Deer in pasture • Chris weeding • Chris & Martin working on stable cam with KD supervising

Chris Taffie testing shoes

Chris mowing with KD and Taffie with Bracken looking on

Chris and Taffie • KD

Chris and Jeannie out for ride

Chris, Bracken, KD, Taffie and Farrier

Chris and Taffie preparing to ride with Jeannie • KD & Taffie

Bracken and Moonlight • Chris coming in from riding Taffie & Bracken looking on

Jeannie photos • Bracken out with Chris in the morning

Chris and Jeannie out for ride

Hay delivered

Chris and Taffie ride • Martin Yamaha inspection • Trailer ready to go get hay

Chris, Jeannie and Gayla out for ride

Chris and Taffie off to ride with Jeannie • Kd running • video

Chris out for ride with Taffie

KD & Taffie after KD was unable to get up 091916

Dominique and Ivon's wedding Wimberly

New cam set-up

Wendy and Joe came by for lunch, a museum tour and met Bracken, KD & Taffie

Farrier

Bracken after large flock of large birds migrating overhead - video • new security camera at night

Chris working with Taffie

Barbara taking care of KD and Taffie • KD wanting to go see his friends, then sulking

KD and Taffie

Martin sharing a banana with Taffie • video

Chris bringing Taffie for workout and heading out to Dominique's brunch

Barbara taking care of KD and Taffie • KD wanting to go see his friends, then sulking

KD and Taffie

Martin sharing a banana with Taffie • video

Liz, Bennie and their son came to take care of the horses

Chris KD Taffie

KD & Taffie grazing

Chris and Bracken at the stable in the August rain • hay room door accidentally came down on Bracken • video

Chris Riding Taffie

Chris riding friends and bringing KD in to heal his hoof

Chris and Taffie

Chris' birthday 2016

Chris, Bracken & Martin June 30 • Chris & Jeannie heading out & KD watching

Bracken on a rainy day and taking her pills

New security camera setup • night vision

New farrier and Chris heading out for ride

Bracken watching Chris get horses ready to go out • Chris Taffie ride • KD

Bracken, Chris and Taffie

KD and Taffie coming in for the evening with a great sunset • video

Bracken watching for Chris • visiting with Barbara

Chris out for ride with Taffie - KD staying calm

Chris taking Taffie out for a ride with Jeannie

Chris and Taffie heading out for a ride

Chris bringing in KD & Taffie for the night • KD gears a cookie

June storm • video

Chris rode Taffie

Chris with KD and Taffie - KD getting boots • Taffie scratching her ear and Bracken watching • video

Gary came over to adjust Chris' muck pile • video

Taffie following Chris

Taffie loving Chris' spraying • video

Farrier

Chris working with Taffie & carrots for KD

Chris working with Taffie and giving Bracken a brushing • Squirrel up tree

Chris went to ride with Barbara and Jeannie, however Taffie had other plans • video • mowing

Bracken at the stable • Chris riding Taffie

Chris working with Taffie & KD watching

KD watching pasture work • Bracken watching for Chris

Hay delivery

May 27, 2016 flooding on Dry Creek in River Crossing

Chris, TAffie & KD • Chris mowing

Rain - Chris checking drainage and KD and Taffie fed up

Chris riding Taffie on a rainy day & KD being good! • video

David and 2 boys helped Chris with drainage work

Chris multi-tasking talking entertainment and accepting stone delivery for pasture drainage work

Skunk in pasture • KD from new stable camera

Chris riding Taffie with KD being good

Grackle Squirrel Standoff • Chris riding Taffie on Mother's Day • Bracken

New stable security network camera - good color and night vision • old cam's broken gear • pasture photo for drainage work

Replaced our stable camera • Chris, KD , Taffie training Junior

Chris and Taffie - video

Chris KD, Taffie & Bracken - coming in for the night

Chris working with Taffie

KD acting up because Taffie is being walked out

Storm brewing • Bracken visiting stable and Taffie intimidating her

Chris mowing and KD & Taffie watching and acting out

KD and a miserable wet hawk • movie

April rain • Chris' two horsepower mower

Chris with KD and Taffie with Bracken looking on • video

Chris Taffie lesson • bird jockey on weather vane

Chris working with Taffie

Dr. Moore treating KD with Chris • Bracken keeping watch

Chris working with Taffie

KD and Taffie running in for supper • video

Taffie was really good and Chris mounted first time!

Chris success mounting and riding Taffie • mowing Bill's pasture • Bracken • Chris Bracken Martin Easter

Chris and trainer working with Tafie and managing KD when Tafffie is out

Chris and Tafffie working with trainer and mowing yard

Chris Taffie lesson

Trainer working with Taffie

KD was on the ground when we returned from meeting with Don re taxes 030716. Vet came from Elgin and was able to get KD up.

Taffie with trainer • More Photos

Chris, KD and Taffie

Chris and Gaila unloading hay

Rachel working with Chris to load Taffie in trailer

Chris and Taffie

Chris, Taffie and KD • video

KD Taffie Farrier

2015

Chris, Taffie and KD

KD watching as Chris works with Taffie

Thanksgiving with Barbara, Larry and Ken • out with KD and Taffie

Horsey friends stopping by

Chris working with Taffie

Chris riding Taffie 11 0915 - view video

Chris Taffie & KD • Gaila, Chris, Taffie & KD • view video

Chris, KD and Taffie Nov 3rd

Chris, KD and Taffie settling in

Taffie comes home November 1, 2015 • video

Chris and Jeannie go check out Tuffy / Taffie

October 30, 2015 flood - first time water has gone over the bridge in River Crossing by our home

Chris KD

Chris and KD with Vet • video (turn off sound)

Very sad - due to bucking, Chris returned Sahara to Rachel

Photo sequence with Chris and Barbara working with Sahara and she bucked Chris off again Oct 10

Photo sequence with Chris working with Sahara. Oct 10

Chris and Sahara. Chris began working with Sahara and initially Sahara did well. Then when Chris began trotting, Sahara bucked putting Chris on the ground. Rachel came and worked with Sahara with no problem. Then Sunday when Barbara came

Chris and Sahara out front

Chris washing Sahara

Chris and Sahara

Chris' first ride on Sahara in River Crossing

KD and Sahara grazing

Sahara Comes Home September 12, 2015 • Getting stable ready & picking Sahara up from Rachels • video more photo

Waiting for rain and KD and Chris • video

Chris took her trailer out to Rachel's to work with Sahara video

KD and bird in flight

Barbara and Gaila took care of KD while Chris was in Seattle

Chris mucking out, treating KD's sores and giving treats

Chris at Rachels riding Sahara - video of Rachel's horses running

Bracken watching for Chris in Copeland where she was checking out a horse

Chris & KD • video

KD takes a "selfie" • KD & Chris

KD rolling and dog shaking • video

Chris' Birthday began with the discovery that KD had broken the gate and was next door, luckily unhurt • video

Chris and Gary unloading hay and working on mower - video

KD rearranges his alfalfa • movie • Moon Star

Chris mowing & KD acting • Bracken watching for Chris at Lowe's

Chris and KD on his 22nd birthday!

KD gets new shoes - video

Chris contracted for our neighbor to repair the pasture drainage damage caused by our heavy rains

Chris & KD • Home

Chris having KD checked for Laminitis by Dr. Moore

KD sore hoofs

KD gets a bath • KD • Bracken worm • Chris mucking - video

June 1, 2015

Facetime with Chris & Sheila at Elaine and Peter's 5/18/15

Letting KD out • Dry Creek higher • video

KD - Barbara - KD standing in the rain - video

Louise and Dan hosted a Kentucky Derby party. Steve and Louise with her Derby hat. We all went out to meet their 2 day old foal. - video

Chris, KD & Martin Selfie • Bracken - Brack rolling video

Chris brings KD in from the pasture - video

Chris washing KD and mowing - video

Bracken & Martin in the Studio • Chris spraying and KD

Sunset 03/15/15, stable and Chris KD & Bracken stable at night

Chris grazing KD with Bracken looking on

Vet with KD

Chris' stable work & Farrier with KD

Chris riding with Jeannie

Chris grazing KD with Bracken

Dancer's painting now over the mantel

2014

Chris giving KD a bath

Chris & KD • movie

KD water

KD;s new waterproof blanket

Rain Dancer 1982 to 2014 - with Chris from 1995 • October 17, 2014 • Dancer's life • video

Chris and new Vet with Dancer

October 2, 2014 storm • the bright stable photo is lightning at 11 pm at night and looks like daylight • KD is always out in storms

Chris and KD

Misc while Chris in Seattle • Chris rain video

Stable chips • Chris trimming the grass with Dancer and KD • Martin KD • front porch sit ten

Chris, Dancer and State vet taking blood samples

Chris Dancer KD - 4th of July

June 12 Chris Dancer & KD

Sunset 050914

KD & Dancer "Where's Chris going with our trailer?" • video

Chris with Dancer & KD in the stable • video

Chris & Gary spread the muck pile • video

Dancer & KD • Chris grazing Dancer & KD • Chris brushing bracken which B loves • Dancer Chris neighbors Jeannie & her husband

Thought the same raccoon had returned 16 days later, however turned out to be a different on. It was also released. Bird on one of our security cameras

Chris Dancer & Bracken

Raccoon trapped, warning Bracken, sleeping the next morning and released into the wild (16 days later the Raccoon is back in the stable eating Dancer's food.) video

Bracken's Birthday • Chris Dancer & KD

Snow and tree down & Chris repairs fence

Preparing the stable for trip

New Dancer KD web cam installed to check on Dancer in other cameras blind spot behind the stable

2013

Dancer had a problem getting up again and Chris walked her around after Martin, plus Debbie & David helped us get up. video

09/28/13 Chris rode Moonie with Marjorie, Rachel & others at McKinney Roughs

Chris, Dancer, KD & Bracken

08/20 vet

Chris with Dancer & KD, vet, Chris going after wasps on back porch, Bracken keeping an eye on Chris as she takes care of Liz's horses over the 4th weekend, raccoon in Chris'' tack room (you can't see me because I can't see you(:-), horse visitors - Laurie & Karen

July 4th KD's birthday, Ken came up and Chris fixed a great dinner and extra carrots for KD

Chris Dancer, KD & Bracken

Chris taking Dancer and KD out to graze and Dancer & KD coming in for the night - Bracken

Chris with Dancer, KD & Bracken

Sharon, Anthony, Julius & Rowan Texas visit

Chris took Dancer and KD out to graze in the front & Bracken & Dancer connected. video

February 2013

Chris with Dancer & KD, wind blew down tree on fence, Chris & Gary spreading manure on pasture.

Dancer Vet - 020113

28th anniversary of marriage proposal • Chris working in the stable

01/16/2013 Bracken on duty & Chris with Dancer & Bracken

KD, Martin, Dancer, Chris & Bracken Happy New Year!

2012

Storm winds blew tree onto Chris horse fence and Dancer seized the opportunity and took a walk to Gary's.

KD became so excited he broke the corral fence. view video

12/2/12

Bracken & Dancer & KD waiting for Chris to return from the UK

Chris just before UK trip • Brac & Trou at Arby's

Chris & KD

July 10, 2012 we finally received 6 inches of rain • video

Dancer gets treated by the Vet

June

Chris rode with Barbara at McKinney Roughs • view KD video

June 10 Chris and Barbara finally got to go to McKinney Roughs (96 degrees out)

Chris at Horse event June 2, 2012

Chris went to Barbara's to ride for first time in a couple of months • video

Chris working with KD on the trailer loading & Dancer bath • movie

April 1, 2012 Chris working with KD • movie

3/12/12 Horses trimming our grass - movie

03/8/12 Rachel working with KD on trailer loading - video

Feb 1 - Dancer & KD - mud • grazing in the yard

Jan 4th - Trou & Brac &KD & Dancer

2011

UK Trip 2011

Chris with Dancer (not eating) • on way to vet • grazing

Clouds...NO rain • Chris pulling out trailer to take KD to McKinney Roughs and ride with Barbara • Dancer having difficulty getting up • movie • a few days later...rain

Chris unloading after ride with Barbara at McKinney Roughs • video

Chris was able to briefly ride KD on 09/16/2011 • video

Rowan & family with Dancer

Chris taking care of 4 extra horses from the fire evacuation areas (bottom) Horses going home - video

KD, Bracken, Troubador, + Chris washing KD & Dancer and Chris with Dancer mowing grass and treating leg • movie also shows land prior to being cut back

Dancer gets a mister on her fan - Austin 50 days + over 100 • (rt) KD

Bracken in the woods after squirrels • Chris cooling down Dancer & KD • movie

June 24 & 25th, 2011 • Movie

Chris & Barbara went on horse trip to Sister Creek Ranch April 29-30, 2011 • view movie

Chris took Dancer for a massage on April 12 • view video

Chris and KD preparing to join Barbara at McKinney Roughs Sunday 040311 (supv by Bracken & Troubador) - video

Chris & KD exercising • video

Troubador & Bracken watching as Chris & KD prepared to go riding • video

Chris with Dancer & KD (love the smile on KD's face)

Troubador, Bracken Chris and KD preparing for Chris & Barbara's first ride at McKinney Roughs in 2011 (Dancer looking on) KD eating cookies

picture of Dancer's home

picture of Dancer running

Kan Daanz Rain Dancer

Kaset (KD's grandfather) Aladdinn (KD's great grandfather) KD's registration

2010

Chris with Dancer, KD, Bracken & Troubador

Dominique & Chris enjoy sunny ride

Valentine's Day • Chris took KD and Dancer for walks with Dominique and her horses

Cold front arriving 02/08/10 • movie

Chris bathing KD

Chris and KD out for ride while Dancer munches

Barbara taking off rugs and Dancer & KD enjoying being out

Barbara taking care of Dancer & KD in 10.8 degree weather • Bracken & Troubador • movie

2009

Cold morning

Spending time with the family • movie

Chris and KD off to ride with Barbara at McKinney Roughs • movie

Chris and KD heading to McKinney Roughs - movie

Chris and Patty

Chris and Dominique heading out to McKinney Roughs to ride with Barbara 11/08/09

Dancer & farrier

Chris and KD out for a ride

Chris and KD heading out to ride with Dominique & Barbara at McKinney Roughs • movie

Chris and KD

Farrier 100109

Barbara & Chris were taking KD to McKinney Roughs, however KD wouldn't unload • movie

C&M took Dancer to A&M large animal hospital & she was given clean bill of health

Chris heading out to McKinney Roughs with KD to ride with Dominique and Barbara - movie of loading

Chris & KD • Chris, KD & Dominique

Chris & Dominique heading to McKinney Roughs to ride with Patty

Chris & Patty back from ride • (right ) Chris at Patty's for ride

Sunset in May 09

Chris & Dominique take horses to "bomb proofing" event • movie

Chris, Dominique & Patty out for ride • view video

Chris & Dominique out for ride • view video

Chris with Dancer on wash rack, Martin with Dancer & KD

Chris & KD riding with Dominique, Patty and Patty's friend from Conn

Chris & Dancer mucking

Chris & Dominique walking horses & visiting new neighbors - video - new neighbors house

Dominique working with Chris & KD

Chris and KD

Chris and KD returning from treatment

Chris (Dancer) and Patty out for a ride while KD looks on

2008

Chris and Dancer with Troubador & Bracken (view movie)

Chris on KD & Patty riding in back.

Chris riding Dancer & KD looking on

Chris returning from having Dancer's teeth floated

Chris out with KD and Dancer 082308 - movie

A brief rain shower • movie

Chris working with KD

Family Photos June 19,2008

Becky working with KD • KD, Chris, Becky, Friend & Liz • movie

May

Pasture spraying - video video2

Chris, Dancer, Dominique, KD, Patty & Molly riding - movie

Chris participated in an event at Rachel's on March2, 2008 designed to help"bomb proof" the horses • view video

Chris heading out for ride with Barbara

KD and Dominique's horses watching Chris & Barbara out for ride • view movie

Chris & Dominique participated in the February 10 Travis County Expo Arabian horse event. Chris & KD won 1 First, 2 - Second and 1 Fourth place ribbon

Chris, Dominique & Laurie out for ride • KD being protective of Dancer • view movie • helicopter over area

photos of Chris & Dancer & Dominique & Chris taken by Nell Carroll for the Austin American Statesman - click on article below to see larger image.

Chris & Dominique loading for McKinney Roughs (with Bracken watching from her room) - movie

Chris & Dominique - movie

2007

Chris videotaped Dominique to help with riding workout - view

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Chris & KD

view movie

Chris and Dominique attend Katy horse show

Chris Dominique, Amy & Gary unloading Chris' hay

Chris & Dominique • Competition • Seguin, Texas more pics

Chris Dominique April 28, 2007 • video

Dancer and stable door movie

04/05/07 Chris' pics of KD - click on pic for larger view

Liz, Becky & Bennie exercising horses

Dancer in stall relaxed 02/24/07

Chris & KD 02/18/07

Dancer & KD 02/15/07

Chris with KD and Dominique with Bob

Superbowl group visiting stable 02/04/07

Ice and snow in Cedar Creek • KD and Dancer • view movie

Chris with KD and Dominique with Bob excising - watch movie

2006

May 2006

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pictures of Chris & Dancer preparing to go to McKinney Roughs 05/21/06

Chris & Dancer preparing to go to McKinney Roughs 05/21/06

Dancer Movie • Go to another movie • Requires QuickTime

Dancer & Moonie with Chris & Marjorie November 2004

Moonie and Dancer 10/2/04

movie of the run

Moonie leaving for other pastures in December

Sonata moves in with Dancer - view movie

Dancer and Sonata with Chris' tractor - Chris & Ken inspecting damage

March 2005 • Dancer looking for Sonata

2003

October

Anthony & Sharon - Austin - November 2003

picture of Dancers stable

Dancers stable

Dancer waiting for Chris and Bach at the Feed room door

Watch movie of Dancer's reaction to Moonie

2002

Dancer and Chris prior to move to new home

2001

2000

1999

Chris & Dancer

1998

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