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Daisy was thrilled to have long walks both Saturday and Sunday. She was patient while Jen and I gathered blackberries, she found a deer carcass on both walks, and today she entered every available body of water, no matter how shallow or fetid. Sarah also spent the weekend in the field, attending HITS Saugerties, the […]

Sarah’s horse for the summer, Sully (formally known as Lanchello), a Dutch gelding, arrived at Southlands Friday morning after an overnight drive from Georgia. By Saturday, Sully had acclimated enough to be ridden. He seems like a fine fellow. In unrelated news, Jen’s secret garden has awakened for spring, with blooms including this fancy Blue […]

Today we attended the Sheep & Wool Festival at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, perhaps the nation’s foremost gathering of ladies who like to knit. Among the offerings are skeins of yarn, wool socks, and lamb skewers. Also today was the Landsman Kill Trail Association’s Fall Hunter Pace, which drew about 120 riders. Here you can […]

Sarah had a good day jumping with Scottie today at Southlands. They participated in one event but somehow won three blue ribbons.

Today we watched Rhinebeck’s quintessential Memorial Day parade from the Lawsons’ front porch. We had Jen’s parents, Erica and Geoff visiting for the weekend, and the Scherrs happened to have rented a house for the weekend about fifteen minutes from us. We felt slightly sheepish about inviting ourselves over to the Lawsons and bringing eleven […]

Here’s a drone’s-eye view of our freshly mown hayfield courtesy of the equine photographer for the Landsman Kill Trail Association’s Fall Hunter Pace, which rode through our place Sunday.

Lately we have been spending Friday nights in the city because Sarah has mid-day Saturday dance practice, where she is gunning for a big role in the Nutcracker. Here’s one of our more photogenic maples shortly after we arrived late Saturday afternoon. We hurried over to Southlands for their annual fundraising gala, held this year […]

We spent most of the weekend in the city, but this evening we attended the Hudson Valley Hunter Jumper Association’s annual banquet at the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, where Sarah was named Reserve Champion in two events: Short/Long Stirrup, and Pleasure. Congratulations to Sarah and Cisco (a.k.a. Talk of the Town)!

We had a short weekend in the country, arriving Saturday evening after Sarah’s dance rehearsal. When we got out of the car, Sarah said, “It smells like hay!” It’s pretty late in the year for haymaking, so I didn’t believe her until I found our upper hayfield had been mowed by this large Ford tractor. […]

Sarah had a horse-filled weekend, with a lesson Saturday morning, a jumping demonstration at the Southlands Foundation annual gala Saturday night, and a show Sunday at Meadow Creek Farm. Here is Sarah aboard Cisco, on their way to winning a second-place ribbon in equitation.