Aug 6, 2012 | Blog
I am home now after a few long flights from London to D.C. to Seattle to Juneau and finally up to Haines and so I’ve been out of touch. I am cleaning my desk today, and getting a little organized– the family, animals, and garden all need some attention....Aug 1, 2012 | Blog
Grandma Joanne is much more relaxed now that the event is over and Karen is both in one piece and successful—not a medal, but the top ten in the world is a pretty nice spot to be in for a 54 year-old athlete, and she rode a big, kind of dangerous horse, very well. Mr....Aug 1, 2012 | Blog
I figured you might like these pictures of our day yesterday, from walking through Greenwich Park to the stadium to Karen jumping, the quick re-arranging of the grounds before the awards, the medal presentations and the international teams’ party afterward for...Jul 31, 2012 | Blog
Karen finished ninth today, and was the top American. The team had some trouble, to say the least, with the only other good round going to young Will Coleman, whose horse stopped at a jump yesterday on the cross country course and so they lost a bunch of points, but...Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
It is raining and cool this morning, which is too bad, as today is our last day at the event, and a stadium day, which is usually a kind of dress up day, as we are just watching show jumping. We are up early in our little London house taking turns in the bathroom,...Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
It has been a crazy, good day and we are all wound up but tired. Karen is in 24th and rode very well, the US team moved up to 5th. (We were 8th yesterday.)We have 155 penalty points and the German team is in first with 124.7, so between first and fifth there are 30...
