Transplanted in Texas

Horse Racing - Eclipse Awards & Pegasus World Cup Well, I didn't pick all the winners in this year's Eclipse Awards - but then, I never have. Still, I did pretty well, naming 11 of the 17 Eclipse Award winners, including Horse of the Year! California Chrome, as expected, swept both the Older Dirt Male and Horse of the Year awards, while Classic Empire, Champagne Room, Arrogate, Songbird, Beholder, Tepin, Finest City, Rawnaq, and Chad Brown took home the awards, respectively, that I had picked them to win. Highland Reel was beaten for the Turf Male Award by Flintshire, Lord Nelson was beaten for Champion Male Sprinter by Drefong, Juddmonte took home Best Owner from Spendthrift, WinStar took Best Breeder from Clearsky, Javier Castellano took his fourth Top Jockey title with Mike Smith trailing, and Luis Ocasio took the Apprentice Jockey title from Lane Luzzi. Tomorrow, the top two Horse of the Year and World's Best Racehorse finalists will take on each other for

Inauguration Day Today, President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office in what is turning out to be an awesome inauguration ceremony. These past two months have shown the state of this country - indeed, the past year has demonstrated how lost and confused a good portion of its people are - and it is in a poor condition. Most of the people want the country to be fairer to the majority, but a large minority, the “left”, the “liberals” (why are they called liberal when they are so tight-fisted and often Ebenezer Scrooge-like?), want it to cater to them. This country was not founded to be ruled by fear. It was founded to give everyone an equal chance to pursue happiness. We cannot please everyone. Those who truly want to improve their lives will work at it, and this country will let them try. They are not locked into their station in life, except perhaps by their own foolishness. Those who wish to be catered to and so are causing such destruction are spoiled brats, products

Next week, I will have a huge post on the Eclipse Awards and the Presidential Inauguration, but this week is a quiet one to focus on the latest goings-on here. 70 degree weather in January is definitely a Southern thing, but I like it. However, we have also gotten a lot of wind to go with it. It is a mixed blessing - the laundry dries faster, but it has a hard time staying on the clothes line! This weekend my sweet husband and I will be in Palestine at the annual Sam Davis New Year's Ball. I will mostly just be watching; he will be playing in the band. It will be his third year playing the band for this ball, and I have never been to it before! A lot of new and exciting things have happened around here lately. Last week, my sister-in-law got engaged to a young man who just happens to be one of D's best friends. This week, we began weaning Dingus. Baby Baker is an active little guy/gal, and we cannot believe that we have only eight more weeks (more like seven and

2017 It's been a busy week. D has worked every single day this year so far (including New Year's Day, a Sunday ), and I've been getting down to business cleaning up our spare room for the baby and getting ready for the next cold spell (ack!). Last night it got pretty close to freezing, and it's not supposed to get up in the 50's again until Monday. Fortunately, there is a warm spell coming mid-week, which will be great, except of course on our sinuses. We ended the year, not by D going in and getting his license to carry (the class was cancelled after the instructor was informed the location was going to be closed New Year's Eve), but by getting the hot water heater hooked up. Of course, now we have to replace the faucet on the kitchen sink so it doesn't leak when the hot water is turned on to it, but it's not that bad! This month, D will finally go in for his license to carry class, and then I have two midwife appointments: one at 32 weeks,