For most people, right now is a time to be thinking about Halloween. As for me, I am thinking about horses! On Sunday I had my first jumping lesson with Jeeper so that I will be ready for fox hunting season. There was so much to learn. Step one: how to put an English saddle on a horse. I have …
Halloween in the Hill Country!
It’s Halloween time in Hunt, TX and there are tons of spooky and fun happenings around the Hill Country these days. This year Meghan, Meredith and I decided to make our own Halloween costumes. I decided to be a leopard. I made my costume by making a no-sew tutu . I found a very simple tutorial online. Using leopard print …
Imagine…camp!
Wonderful ruminations from Barb, New York advisor from Tips on Trips and Camps: IMAGINE Imagine a place where a blackberry is actually a berry that is black. Imagine a place where text means the words that kids hand write in letters to mom and dad. Imagine a place where social networking means telling stories around a campfire. Imagine a place …
Meet the Sotos
For the last 30 years or more, Camp Stewart has employed Jaime Soto. Jaime originated in Guanajato, Mexico, and is honest, clean cut, soft spoken and hardworking. After many years, he eventually was able to bring his wife, Engracia, and their sons who are identical twins. The “boys” work alongside their father with the horses. Engracia is self-employed, cleaning houses …
October required fun: nature hike
Time again to remember how others relate to camp: required fun! We gathered at lunch time, and hiked to Mountain Lion Maw (my tentative new name for the headwaters of Caballo Creek, aka Junior Overnight Site, aka That Place Behind the Stables). There were a dozen of us from Heart and Stewart, with my favorite niece and nephew on the …
Competitive Trail Riding
As a little girl growing up, one of my favorite things to do was to go trail riding with my daddy. I never had any formal lessons growing up. Everything I knew about a horse I learned from my dad. Packing a lunch and hitting the trail with our horses was a special activity that my dad and I shared. …
Operation Write Home: Goal 500 Cards
My mom and I are very crafty! We sew, paint, scrapbook, and most recently we started card making. It is always so nice to have a handmade card to give to someone, because you are able to personalize them much more than the ones you buy at the local Hallmark store. About a year or so back my mom introduced …
Are we ready to vote yet?
Raise your hand if you’re sick and tired of all the political ads and cantankerous debating! I know I am, but I also have low tolerance for fussing and fighting (as a child, I learned to tune these thing out, ha ha!). I stopped at The Store in Hunt to post a flyer for a choir concert we’re working on, …
Homecoming Memories
In high school, one of the biggest things I always looked forward to was homecoming! My homecoming is probably a little different than what most of you experience because in little Melbourne, Arkansas we didn’t have football! That’s right, no football homecoming game. Instead, we had a homecoming basketball game. We still had maids from every grade, a homecoming queen, …
Wounded warrior family adventure
One day on the tennis courts in Kerrville, I met the rare native Kerrvillain (not the official term, but the one I use, for people who were actually born here and didn’t move in). She moved away at some point after high school, but is back. As it turns out, her husband has this idea about bringing wounded military with …