One hundred years ago today, on August 31, 1924 at The Chestnuts in Roos, Yorkshire a baby boy was born to Ruth Hanbury Barry and James Harding Barry. Their third son in four years, he was christened James Brian, but went by Brian, and was called Brue (for the Irish king, Brian Boru). A sister, […]
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Missouri summer weather hit us like a hammer this week. Rebecca was scheduled to come over on Monday, and I suggested it might be too hot. But she was determined to finish the job we had started a week before, when we cut some fence boards for the north pasture. With our bandanas on hand
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Summer weather returned for the Happenstance August Horse Show, but Jane and Derry were ready to compete. Harry and the dogs and I went to cheer them on. With afternoon out of town visitors, and a long scheduled evening birthday party in the Central West End, we could not get north to Pike County. Last
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The Vietnam memorial sculpture is completed, signed, and has left the studio to go to molds and casting. And now the General is taking shape. Twenty years ago, Harry did a sculpture of Hannah Cole, a remarkable pioneer woman who settled Boonville, Missouri, along the Missouri River west of Columbia, after her husband was killed
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I have been having frustrations with WordPress, so here is a short touching of base to see if all the restarts have helped. The horses have been enjoying rich summer grass thanks to abundant rains. Daytime dieting is not having much of an effect against all that delicious greenery. Horseflies are the ruination of August