It's difficult not getting overly emotional (both sad and happy) while viewing this picture.
Today marks seven years since we said good-bye to our mother, Virginia Tibbs.
That day, family members were participating in two horse shows, here in Sandpoint and on the coast.
This year family members stuck to one show, the Spots of Fun Open Horse Show here in Sandpoint.
I learned during this year's Saturday's show that a horrible car accident had happened south of Sandpoint.
Later, I learned that Skip and Nancy Pucci were involved. They were taken to Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene.
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| Skip and Nancy Pucci |
Nancy has been released from the hospital and is with their daughter Jackie this morning. And, Skip should be released soon after surgery on his shoulder.
Jackie tells me that their Border Collie, which was in the car, is still missing but, happily has been sighted.
Wishing them all the best.
I mention the accident because Skip was at the reins in the photo above during the Fourth of July Parade in 2006.
That year he selected Mother to ride with him through the parade in his cart. Talk about one thrilled lady.
With help from my sisters, she got all duded up, showed up at Skip's mother's house before the parade and then went off clip clopping down the streets of Sandpoint, probably wearing herself out waving at spectators.
I always thought that was one of the nicest gestures of Skip to provide that big thrill for my mother.
Skip has been instrumental in our lives in many ways. For one thing, he was the first person to welcome Bill to the Sandpoint area when he came for the 1973 Boy Scout Jamboree.
Skip was a scout leader at the time, so he went to Spokane Airport to pick up a guy named Bill Love and took him to the Jamboree where I met him for the first time a few days later.
Our family has all loved the Pucci's over our years on this planet and in this town. Wonderful family with fascinating life stories to say the least.
In fact, I just featured Skip's daughter Gina as a native in the Natives and Newcomers for Sandpoint Magazine.
Back to this weekend's horse show.
Another wonderful and beloved human being (I think even a classmate of Skip and Nancy's) organized the show, as she has for more than 30 years.
Sadly, she was not able to come to the show because she spent the weekend in the hospital, dealing with the complications from a leg infection.
Happily, we hear Moreen Leen is on the mend and will come home to her family today.
We missed her but, like the Pucci's, the Leen family presence was evident at the show, not only with folks pitching in on Moreen's behalf but also seeing that the logistics ran smoothly.
Yes, Kenny, I'm talking about you, and I haven't yet told Bill that you said I reminded you of an old "banty hen."
Gonna getcha back for that one!
And so, it was the Spots of Fun Open Horse Show where many of our family members participated or provided support to other riders.
Our neighborhood was well represented with a new horse in the neighborhood to go along with the others that went to the show.
And, yes, I'm sure every one of us family members thought about Mother and Harold (his "Harold Tibbs-Toby I belt buckle went to Moreen's granddaughter Miranda Dodge) throughout the weekend.
We'll continue to remember our mother on this anniversary of her passing and probably in various ways every day.
For now, I feel confident that both she and Harold would be thrilled with how their respective horse legacies continue.
They would have been impressed to see "all the pretty horses" doing their thing at this weekend's show.
As for Skip, Nancy and Moreen, be well soon.
Happy Monday.
That year he selected Mother to ride with him through the parade in his cart. Talk about one thrilled lady.
With help from my sisters, she got all duded up, showed up at Skip's mother's house before the parade and then went off clip clopping down the streets of Sandpoint, probably wearing herself out waving at spectators.
I always thought that was one of the nicest gestures of Skip to provide that big thrill for my mother.
Skip has been instrumental in our lives in many ways. For one thing, he was the first person to welcome Bill to the Sandpoint area when he came for the 1973 Boy Scout Jamboree.
Skip was a scout leader at the time, so he went to Spokane Airport to pick up a guy named Bill Love and took him to the Jamboree where I met him for the first time a few days later.
Our family has all loved the Pucci's over our years on this planet and in this town. Wonderful family with fascinating life stories to say the least.
In fact, I just featured Skip's daughter Gina as a native in the Natives and Newcomers for Sandpoint Magazine.
Back to this weekend's horse show.
Another wonderful and beloved human being (I think even a classmate of Skip and Nancy's) organized the show, as she has for more than 30 years.
Sadly, she was not able to come to the show because she spent the weekend in the hospital, dealing with the complications from a leg infection.
Happily, we hear Moreen Leen is on the mend and will come home to her family today.
We missed her but, like the Pucci's, the Leen family presence was evident at the show, not only with folks pitching in on Moreen's behalf but also seeing that the logistics ran smoothly.
Yes, Kenny, I'm talking about you, and I haven't yet told Bill that you said I reminded you of an old "banty hen."
Gonna getcha back for that one!
And so, it was the Spots of Fun Open Horse Show where many of our family members participated or provided support to other riders.
Our neighborhood was well represented with a new horse in the neighborhood to go along with the others that went to the show.
And, yes, I'm sure every one of us family members thought about Mother and Harold (his "Harold Tibbs-Toby I belt buckle went to Moreen's granddaughter Miranda Dodge) throughout the weekend.
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Miranda Dodge |
We'll continue to remember our mother on this anniversary of her passing and probably in various ways every day.
For now, I feel confident that both she and Harold would be thrilled with how their respective horse legacies continue.
They would have been impressed to see "all the pretty horses" doing their thing at this weekend's show.
As for Skip, Nancy and Moreen, be well soon.
Happy Monday.
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