It seems a shame that we have been very busy here, yet there is not much to blog about. The weather has been damp and a bit gloomy at times, but not cold, which is nice. I shall give an account of the past week. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday I continued to walk the three […]

Oh, dear! It’s time to write the dreaded Christmas letter and start sending Christmas cards. I will act like a millennial here and post the card and letter as we approach the actual holiday. But for now, well, so long to Rachael. She has gone west to Kansas City, and from there back to Idaho

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

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

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