What a nice Sunday it was, too: partly cloudy, a nice refreshing breeze and only 80 degrees. Everyone was happy!
I have to officially welcome a couple horses to Old Friends. Leave Seattle, our first son of Seattle Slew, (Williamstown being the second) returned to Old Friends after about a six or seven month stay at Hurstland Farm. [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 29, 2008
Sunday June 29, 2008
June 22, 2008
Sunday June 22, 2008
Summer is officially here and the signs are everywhere. I noticed today that Diane has changed out the flowers in the gift shop window boxes. No more spring pansies. Now we have beautiful geraniums, petunias and ivy. We also have sun bleached manes, flies, and fly masks. Sure enough, summer is here!
Ogygian has perhaps the [...]
June 16, 2008
Monday June 16, 2008
Happy Father’s Day, a day late! For me, Father’s Day seems to mark the beginning of the heart of summer. And like most summer weekends, this one was busy. Saturday a bunch of us went to Churchill Downs for Steven Foster day. Sylvia was complaining that all her volunteers left to go to the races. Thankfully, [...]
June 9, 2008
Sunday June 8, 2008
ABB– After Big Brown. What a day. We’re all feeling kind of bad about Big Brown. I think our own Ruth Ann took it the hardest—she was ready to celebrate a Triple Crown winner. But it sure makes you appreciate just how doggone HARD it is to win those three races, and what fabulous horses [...]
June 2, 2008
Sunday June 1, 2008
Today was probably the first really warm day of 2008. In fact, I would say it crossed right over the red line into downright hot by about 1 pm. By then, tour dogs Jake and Marley were very wisely sitting in the shade at every opportunity. They gave up completely after the 1 o’clock tour, [...]
