Propane Tanks and Old Trees

Breaking 140 Year Old Temperatures

Unbelievable! 79 degrees on December 27 in southern middle TN at our farm! breaking records like crazy!

No Future Restoration Projects, but Went to Peru

At Machu Piccu

Down the Urabamba River with our Traveling Companions

The Marketplace in Cusco

Veggies in the Market in Cusco

Incan King Monument in Cusco

Our "taxi" driver (a Retrofitted Motorcycle, taking our lives into our own hands)

Baby Alpaca

Andy serving Guinea Pig

The Urabama River

Andy Ready to Paddle

Clarice Celebrating Her 59th Birthday in Peru

Children of Cusco and Our Guide, Walter Torres

Children of Peru

Fountain Park in Lima

This has nothing to do with restoration or living in rural America, but we did go to Peru in August, It was truly a trip of a lifetime! The culture, the people, who were so polite, the food (lots of potatoes), the Andes, altitude sickness, yuck!, the beauty and wonderful traveling companions from all over the USA. Everyone should visit Peru!

Belle of the Ball

Welcome, Belle of the Ball, my new fox hunter! This is a photo of our very first hunt in Lexington, KY with the Iroquois Hunt, and first ride together in March. I bought Belle that day and hunted her with Hillsboro the following Wednesday. She is a very dark bay, 11 year old, spayed mare, 15hh, 3/4 Percheron, 1/4 Morgan.  She is lovely and loving. I have been riding her all summer and she has been a star. I have a new trainer, Roman Kaul and he makes her look like a dressage star when he rides her in the indoor.  I am boarding her at Karen Gray's in hunt country. I am so excited to have her!!! love you, Belle!!!

Spring Flowers at Laughing Fox

Spring Flowers at Laughing Fox Farm. The irises and Nellie Stevens holly have been here since before we owned the farm. I planted the tulips and pansies. What I have learned is that irises loved to be thinned out, pansies are annuals, tulips have to be fed to produce flowers, and the holly tree just thrives on its own.  I had to feed one of the three hollies one year. I sprinkled about 10 lbs. of bone meal around it one spring and again in the fall.  I fed it because the leaves were turning yellow. Hollies go through a molting period when some of the leaves turn yellow. But that time the yellow leaves were about to outnumber the green ones. The tree is doing great.

Gone since 2013

For whatever reason I have not been able to access my blog until now. good to be back!