Whiskey for my men, and beer for my horses

Willie Nelson is the only person I can think of to combine horses and whiskey so seamlessly (ok, googling that link tells me there's Toby Keith too, but he is a much less attractive link). I guess I ran into a bit of blogger's block with the KY trip as various distractions – well, principally work – prevented me from finding the all-of-twenty minutes I needed to get this brief little entry up. Nope, not just laziness. Really.

So, other highlights of the trip included a visit to the “Old Friends” retired racehorse center, where we got to see movie star Seabiscuit (below -- not a good picture of him, but you can just make out the name!),

and a tour of the Toyota factory, where we saw a little car manufacturing and a lot of oddly exuberant Toyota employees (I hope the few who did not smile and wave for the tour trolleys still have their jobs!). We were not allowed to take any photos of the Toyota factory, presumably for fear that we might immediately ship off the coveted images to Ford (assuming GM is beyond hope and Chrysler/Fiat wouldn't be interested anyway).

On the last day, we went on a tour of the Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey distillery, led by our new buddy Dave. Dave seemed to really, really enjoy working at the bourbon plant. He was particularly fond of the tastings. He definitely took a shining to Kate too. Speaking of shining, Buffalo Trace was the first time I’d tried genuine moonshine. It might well be the last. It was that good.









And here are a few more random pix (click on any and all to enlarge):

Meanwhile, back on the farm, we have some updates on beef for sale (not that I’m going to eat it, but if you eat beef you should) – see the main page for details!