Every year, my friends and I remember the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup for one particular reason. In 2014 it was the strong wind that felled a port-a-potty. The year before, our dogs didn't get along, in somewhat spectacular fashion. And the year before that, the freezing temperatures sent one of us home on a rescue mission to bring back warm socks and Irish coffee for everyone.
This year the weather was warm and sunny and we brought only one dog, so I suspect we'll remember the event for the absence of a well-loved member of our party, who had a death in the family the day before and had to help sort out the myriad of funeral details.
Although it just wasn't the same without him (he would have loved seeing the tiny Papillon and the gigantic but gentle deerhound), we still had a great time watching the horse races, especially when we knew the jockeys, and socializing with friends in between.
It was fun to see Ivan Dowling and Kelly Merette bring out the "Cheshire Beauties," the foxhounds of the Cheshire Hunt.
Food is always an important component of the event. I baked two kinds of cookies, and the other members of our merry band brought caprese salad and turkey meatballs (which turned out to be a wonderful and not-too-unnutritious combination). At other people's tailgate parties I enjoyed marvelous chili, marinated asparagus, and smoked salmon.
Hats off to the members of the Hunt Cup committee, who work long and hard to organize this yearly tradition, and thanks to the landowners who let us invade their lovely property.
Myriad of?
ReplyDeleteI always thought this should be myriad + noun, without preposition. But now that I see a professional editor use "myriad of", my world is shaken.
I like it as a noun, but it can be an adjective too! So we're both right.
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