Well, here we are, blowing toward December. We are having high winds today (my least favorite weather condition). It is warm, but temperatures will plummet tonight and we will have a feel of winter soon. I left off at Thanksgiving. We continue to be grateful for many things here. Remarkably warm weather has been very […]
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I hope all had a Happy Thanksgiving. It was for many years a difficult holiday for me. Bridlespur had a Thanksgiving Hunt, which was the first hunt after Deer Season. Deer Season shut down fox hunting, because the danger of being shot outweighed the fun. But Deer Season in Missouri ends on the Sunday before
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Half a century ago, in 1972, the annual Bridlespur Hunter Trials were held, by tradition, on the third weekend in November. That year, I rode Tré Awain Tourbillon, the beautiful gray Connemara stallion on whom I jumped many big fences, and from whom I learned courage and joy. Before I was fortunate enough to get
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Thanks to all the help I have had, my recovery has been rapid. Full effects of stem cell treatment are seen in 7 to 9 months, but already, today, I have no pain. Sometimes there is a “roller coaster” effect, with good days and bad days, but I am encouraged. I am also uplifted because
Well, we weren’t expecting snow. I guess we haven’t been paying attention to the weather forecast. The cars were not undercover (though Weedy was), the shovels were still in the shed. We were quite unprepared for the beauty that greeted us as dawn came up. Marianne arrived to turn out the horses and do the