May Mania – May 9

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Time (well, lack of…) continues to confound me. There are never enough hours to do all the things I mean, and need, to do. Seems I left off at the end of April with the blog. And it feels like it has rained almost non stop since then, until today, which was warm and sunny. Jane and Eddy and I went over to Happenstance to watch Susan’s lovely gray mare, Vera, show. As always, it was fun to catch up with friends.

Before April closed out, my brother, Mark, came for a visit, bearing Vietnamese food from the city. He and his wife, Cynthia, moved to St. Louis from Chicago last year, but they are city dwellers, so we do not see them much. And, of course, circumstances have kept us confined here since Harry’s fall in January. Life is just beginning to return to normal.

To close out April, we had a visit from dear friends, Linda and Ted Parkhurst, as they traveled through this part of the world, where Linda was giving a three day riding clinic. En route, they stopped in Santa Fe, where Linda painted a beautiful mural on a friend’s wall.

It has been a splendid Spring for birds. We have had multiple indigo buntings and rose breasted grosbeaks. Here will follow too many pictures. I will endeavor to return tomorrow with more news of life at Bronze Fox Farm and environs…