Horses, Food, Fun, Family and Friends! Part 1

What a great Kentucky Derby party.

Sally and great grandson Andy. Sally bought her outfit to coordinate with the hat she chose. That is the proper way to do it and she is a very proper lady.
Everyone was in a great mood and had such fun.

Tucker really loved my hat. I think he wants it!
We each brought an appetizer or dessert and what great food it was. there is no better was to host a party that to let each guest bring something. The food was outstanding.

This year there was no clear cut favorite so we all had fun watching the horse we drew in our pool. My horse, State of Honor, started the race in first place and stayed there until another horse took over…and he didn’t finish in the money It was fun to see him get off to a good start since he was a long shot.
Hats were not required but added a lot of fun and color to the party. Stay tuned for part 2.

Horse Fever

Ten years ago Ocala, Florida did an exhibit of painted and decorated horses, much like similar projects of various animals around the country and abroad.
I LOVE those types of things.
This year they repeated it with 27 fantastic horses.

Yesterday we set out to go "horse hunting" to find as many of the 27 horses as we could. Our information was incomplete and they had already been sold to various businesses and individuals so many were not easily found.

We did find the 4 from the first Horse Fever a decade ago on the square. Then we found a few more in that general area.
The ones I'm showing on this blog post are from the current herd.


Broken Beauty was just a block off of the town square.


This "Quarter Horse" was covered with quarters and the artist also painted quarters on it.


"Brick City" was directly across from the square facing the square. It was our favorite of the horses we were able to locate.


This is the other side of Brick City.

I hope to spend another day horse hunting and find a few more.

If you enjoyed this post let me know as I have more photos and some closeups I can post at another time.