We were blessed with a simple dusting of snow yesterday, and it created some exquisite natural scenes, which I captured among my travels here in the country and in town.
Most of the white dust is gone today, and we have several days of cool, dry weather ahead.
Yay!
Enjoy the photos and the Thursday Throwbacks below.
I sent a note to my sisters yesterday documenting what happens when you park in their driveway.
Natti, the cat, is an enthusiastic Tibbs Arabians greeter.
Various other cats join in on making visitors feel welcome, but it's safe to say that Natti goes the extra mile.
Thursday Throwbacks . . . .
My sisters, Barbara and Laurie, and Barbara's Half Arabian gelding Dusty have had quite a week at the U.S. Arabian National Horse Show in Tulsa.
Hopefully they left room in their trailer/pickup to bring home all the goodies they won while winning five National Top Tens.
Part of their inspiration besides their lifelong, sheer love of horses comes from the epic family story of the first-ever National Appaloosa Show in Lewiston, Idaho.
In the late 1940s, their dad Harold Tibbs won several national awards, including champion performance horse on the worldwide Appaloosa legend Toby I, ApHC #203.
Since that time, Toby's bloodlines can be found all over the world. I've met people from both Australia and New Zealand who know the Toby line.
One day, when my folks still lived on the North Boyer farm, a fat envelope came from the Appaloosa Horse Club.
Inside was a letter and a registration blank for the South Africa Appaloosa Horse Club. In the middle of the blank was the picture you see below of Harold on Toby.
Decades after Harold (a Sandpoint City water filter operator, Hereford cattle farmer and horseman from little ol' Sandpoint) won his distinction, our youngest sister Laurie achieved a similar milestone by winning a national championship on her gelding Mani in dressage at the Arabian Sport Horse Nationals in Nampa, ID.
And, a few years later, our middle sister Barbara, riding her beloved Dusty, walked away decisively with a national championship in trail at the Arabian Nationals in Tulsa, Okla.
Since then, both sisters have continued to win national champions, reserve championships and Top Ten distinctions at the national level.
Anywho, it seemed fitting today to put this information and a few other photos together, just in case anyone wondered about the depth and span of the family horse-loving legacy.
Even our older brother Mike has sat on a horse. He's never been known to be the consummate horse lover, but he still appreciates the family traditions.
Mike is aboard Tonka. My youngest brother Jim worked with Tonka as his 4-H horse project.
Before Tonka became a member of the family, she was owned by Dal Hawkins.
A beautiful back-country photo of Dal and Tonka graced the interior of the first ever McDonalds in the area in Coeur d'Alene. The Hawkins family were also avid photographers and outdoors folks.
So, a sample from their family photo collection was chosen to hang as a mural on the fast-food restaurant wall.
I'm riding my first-ever horse Tiny, while Laurie is aboard Rishmah aka Richie, given to her by Ardis Racicot and later, an Arabian Top Ten winner in show hack during the 1987 Arabian Nationals in Albuquerque, New Mex.
My brother Kevin has been with Barbara and Laurie at the U.S. Nationals, helping with video work, grooming and general support.
This could be one of our sister Barbara's first rides in the driveway of our North Boyer farm.
This is Largo, our mother's first horse after she moved to Sandpoint from Chicago.
Mother rode Largo in parades and horse shows, and most of us kids experienced our first ever rides on her.
It's fun putting just a few pieces together in a mosaic of our family's extensive horse history.
Happy Thursday.
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