The Sadie Lady

Congratulations to long shot Da' Tara in his impressive wire to wire win in the Belmont yesterday, the longest (1 1/2 mile) and hardest ...

Date: June 7th, 2008 Place: Belmont Park, Elmont N.Y. Post-Time: 6:25 EST Event: 10 horses running for the Belmont Stakes THE EVENT : One ho...

This year is the 30th anniversary of Affirmed's Triple Crown Win and Citation's 60th. Big Brown has been compared to Secretariat. Bi...

My dad was a gadget man and he liked to try out new things. When we were growing up he collected them like people collect stamps. He had hot...

Big Brown Cruises to Another Easy Win in Preakness Excerpts from AP Racing Writer: Beth Harris BALTIMORE - Not once but twice, jockey Kent D...

When we lived on our boat in Charleston we lived at the Stono Marina right of the bridge on John's Island. The weather has been awful th...

Aunt Betty sent out an e-mail titled the Cowboy Bible. The first truth was "Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-stron...

Jeff and I signed up for a cooking class at The Foxfire Gallery in Greenville. I'd heard about the shop in the Living in South Carolina...

Last winter Jeff and I made a promise that we wouldn't plant any trees and bushes this year. Last summer, especially because of the drou...

Richard, Johnnie, Nancy, Ginny & Stacey Carla sent an e-mail out yesterday with pictures of kids getting into all kinds of messes for in...

I finally got to go home to see Memphis last week-end. Friday night we went shopping at Oak Park Mall then to Ginny's house to visit wit...

A week ago we rented the movie The Jane Austin Book Club . The book club comes into being when a woman discovers her husband is having an a...

Skipper is finally weaned off the last of his meds. The vet came out and looked at him one last time. He has about a 1/2 inch scar on his c...

Jeff says we run a Bed and Breakfast for Horses Skipper's eye is doing better but still needs to get meds for at least another 10 days...

We haven't had snow in several years. I was excited about going to bed last night to see what it would look like this morning. It had ju...

As soon as I made my flight arrangements to go back to Missouri, Ginny and I started working on a family baby shower for Memphis. We had a g...

Last week-end Skipper's eye started weeping and it seemed to be bothering him more. Called the vet on Sunday and he came out first thin...

Today we took Chase and Sadie to Cowpens Battlefield in Cowpens SC. It's about 30 minutes from our house. I know that's a weird name...

Carla keeps referring to Memphis being in the Moses Basket, so I asked for pics. He is the most beautiful thing in the world!

This has been one horrific day. The vet got here at 10:30 and Skipper had a piece of an acorn shell stuck in his eye, it was almost 1/2 inch...

Frank, Carla and Memphis We had a nice day and took The Sadie Lady on a walk at Cowpens Battlefield. She loves it there. Sarah is coming up ...

Dad and Son Why do boys get the good hair? Mommy's Doing a Great Job! I wonder if Carla will still find time to get her nails done when ...

Memphis was discharged from the hospital yesterday. Discharge from a hospital is monumental in and of itself. All those instructions, forms ...

Will write more later, but Memphis was born at 11:25 Seattle time: He weighed 9 pounds 2 ounces and is 19.5 inches long, lots of blondish ha...

Jeanne gave Sadie a Christmas collar. She loves it and if I take it off she whines at me to put it back on! Yesterday we went to Miliken for...

I was saddened to hear Dan Fogelberg died today after battling prostate cancer since 2004. I always loved his music but one of my favorites ...

Karen and Ray were on the road by 0830 and then we left to take Sherrie to the airport a few hours later. We made one quick trip through Cow...

Jeff has a pistol range down in the back and every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving we go down and do some target shooting. Steve loves...

This year we girls did it right. We made enough of the food ahead of time that we didn't spend all day in the kitchen. Most of the after...

We all slept in a little this morning, then Sherrie and I started making appetizers (beefy cheese dip and crab dip), pumpkin pie and a cherr...

Thank-goodness we canceled the trip to Gatlinburg . We started out around 0930 this morning and didn't get home till after 1600. The thr...

Today Sherrie and I went up to Landrum. We stopped in The Hare and Hound for lunch and were able to sit outside on the patio. It was a beaut...