It seems to me that August is the cruelest month, apologies to T.S. Eliot. I welcome September, bringing startling blue skies, with autumn weather in the offing. But before we move along, August 31 always feels auspicious, being my father’s birthday. J. Brian Barry would have been 99 yesterday. He is gone, but remembered by […]

The past week has been the hottest week I can remember. Riding has been postponed. The horses have suffered and sweated, as have we all. Luckily, Fred came to shoe the horses before the heat wave arrived. It was the last really pleasant day we had, and that was ten days ago. Somehow, I neglected

The days are not long enough to dent the ever increasing pile of “things to do”, much less find time to blog, with our slow internet. The good news is that fiber optic is making its way in this direction at long last. Meanwhile, we never stop being grateful for the beauty surrounding us. As

In 2015, we went to Paris to look at a horse. Paris, Kentucky, that is, which is part of Lexington. The horse wasn’t quite what we wanted. I had been accepted into the Thoroughbred Makeover, and we were searching for a retired racehorse that was a sound hunter / jumper prospect. We had exhausted all

It’s been a hectic time since I last blogged. On Monday, July 24, we met up with our longtime friends, Susie and Jake. The plan was to have a last visit to Three Creek Farm followed by lunch with us and the three Carpenter sisters, but Dorothy was delayed in New York, so we had