I apologize for being so late with my entry this week. I took Sunday off from giving tours because we had family in town. My brother, sister-in-law and two nieces came to Kentucky from western New York State. So I was a Kentucky tour guide this weekend!
Things are good at Old Friends, though. The horses [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 27, 2008
Tuesday May 27, 2008
May 27, 2008
Memorial Day Weekend
The heat has finally kicked in. Before Sunday it was cool, honest-to-goodness Spring weather. Thanks to all the rain we’ve had everything is green and burgeoning. I don’t think I’ve ever seen flowering trees – the dogwoods and redbuds in particular – as beautiful as they have been this year. And of course our horses couldn’t be more [...]
May 19, 2008
Sunday May 18, 2008
Today was a beautiful day, especially when compared to last Sunday. No rain, about 73 degrees and bright sunshine. The seemingly ever-present Kentucky wind was blowing, as it has been doing a great deal. All the horses are feeling great, though. Kiri blew out a quick sprint across his paddock this afternoon. He still can move [...]
May 12, 2008
Sunday May 11, 2008
Happy Mother’s Day to all, including the moms whose children are of the equine, canine, feline or other variety!
Today was an extremely windy, rather chilly and wet day at Old Friends. It was nothing at all like last weekend’s beautiful Homecoming weather, but we still had a couple groups of hardy souls willing to try [...]
May 6, 2008
Monday May 5, 2008
I’m a day late posting, but what a week it has been! For me, it started at 5 am on Wednesday when a group of Old Friends volunteers and supporters served sausage biscuits on the backside of Churchill Downs. The Louisville Thoroughbred Club, their charity arm called My Racing Heart, and Purnell Sausage Company held [...]
