September
20,
2009
September rains have greened up the
pastures (finally) with the promise of more to come. And we're just one week away from the
start of the fall competition season. Good luck to all those who are entered in Greenwood's
Fall Horse Trials. CTEA will have a good representation there.
Inaugural dressage
show
In August, CTEA member Lolly Perry and
her husband, Bill, held their first Perry Equestrian Center Dressage
Show on their new property not far from Liberty Hill across the
interstate from Fair Oaks Ranch. CTEA members helping and/or
participating included Sydney Moss; Lolly's sister, Mary Boster, who
came in from San Angelo along with Elizabeth and Victoria New, and me.
Judy Campbell-Urban judged. It was a small show, but a nice way to get
one's feet wet, both from a show organizing/hosting standpoint and from
a green mare who hasn't done much standpoint. We look forward to more
shows there.
Off to school
CTEA member Victoria Harding is off to
Lubbock for grad school at Texas Tech. She's working on a
master's degree in English with a minor in women's studies. She hopes
to be able to event her TB/Hanoverian Sovereign, but that remains to be
seen. Her old ex-eventer Mason died late last month.
In the news
Another member, Sandy Venneman, who
lives in Yoakum, was featured in a story in the Victoria Advocate.
Sandy is an assistant professor at the University of Houston-Victoria
and lives way out in the sticks. Yes, I live out in the sticks, too,
but trust me, I've been to Sandy's and she's much farther out in the
sticks than I am. Headline on the article was "No A/C is no big deal"
and it talked more about Sandy's unconventional lifestyle in choosing
to live without air conditioning than about her horses. But there were
two photos of her with her horses (one jumping, one leading), one of
her on her front porch with her two dogs and one of the 100-year-old
house she had moved to her property. Yes, the one with no A/C. She does
have central heat, though. She explained in the article that she's very
heat tolerant, but not cold tolerant.
Please let me know what's going on in
your lives. This column is for members and about members. You can send
me e-mail to: kpaledes@gvec.net.
Please note that this is a new e-mail address for me.
