Carriage Ride Around Bedford
Each fall I enjoy taking sunset carriage rides along the Rockefeller horse paths in Maine. Now that I have horses on the farm in Bedford, I've begun collecting beautiful antique carriages of my own. This turn-of-the-century Brewster Bronson wagon was previously part of David Rockefeller's collection. Driving the carriage is Stu Thompson, who helps train my horses. Betsy Perreten, who tends the donkeys and horses in the stable each day, is beside him on the right, while family friends are seated in the row behind.
Photos By Eliad Laskin
Hi Martha,
A plan I have upcoming is to purchase a wagon per season. A surrey for spring, stagecoach for summer, hay wagon for fall and sleigh for winter will host guests for seasonal rides through my 1764 farm property. The idea has been coined to benefit a chosen project or foundation in 2009.
Until then I have a farm wagon I need to sell. I've been liquidating all assets belonging to my National Cancer Society for Animals, which I wrote you I was transferring to new leadership. This horse wagon has had a public image with the media through the years with NCSA and is now in need of some care and storage.
If you would like to give it a loving home, someone may contact me at 508-285-2525. I also have a '66 Red Mustang convertible which was our parade and signature vehicle. I know your daughter bought you a red and white station wagon of some sort. Interested in the movie industry's sweetheart car?
Enjoy your trots through the leaf shuffles and frost ruffles of the season.
Andrea Spencer and the Weimaraners
Posted by: Andrea Spencer | November 25th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Hi Martha,
My above message of old looks lonely, so I'll take the liberty to add a note --
I have no new horse wagon wagers for you, but I do have a cart load of material, so I've been told by voices on high, that you will have a wonderful laugh and smile at.
Flash onto http://andreajetspencer.blogspot.com/
I've been assured that you will find it a good read.
Have a fine weekend.
Andrea Spencer
Posted by: Andrea and the Weimaraners | February 22nd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Hi Martha,
Just thought I'd check in and see how you and the two pups are doing.
It's a nice afternoon to enjoy thoughts of good days gone by. The temperate breeze just seems to wash over you with comfort.
We'll be in touch from blog to blog, from envelope to envelope.
Andy and The Grey Ghosts
Posted by: Andrea and the Weimaraners | April 19th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Martha, daughter of Martha,
I wasn't sure where to post my reaction to a segment on today's MARTHA.
The commemorative closing which featured your mother was exactly perfect!
The entrance of sound just at the right moment moved us from poignancy to sweet laughter, and then with a sound cut, a fast yank back to our hearts, so very sorry, right along with you -- to have lost the face of your 'once upon a time' mother.
Continuing to think of you -- Andrea and the Weimaraners
Posted by: Andrea and the Weimaraners | May 9th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
What a neat wagon. Really enjoy reading all about you, your family and your pets.
Hopefully you will adopt one of Paw Paw's grandsons! How exciting.
Love looking at pictures of your Bedford Estate - It is absolutely beautiful.
Take care!
Jackie
West Jefferson, OH
Posted by: Jackie Dailey | July 29th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Martha, Hoping you might feature a spot on carriage driving in the future on one of your shows.
Ms. Austin's Florida Carriage Museum and Resort in Weirsdale Florida is a magnificent place to drive, learn, and tour a huge museum of carriages and horse history.
Trot on!
Posted by: margaret belvin | August 13th, 2008 at 10:27 am
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Andrea and The Weimaraners Thinking of You Today
Hello Martha on September First,
I usually return to all things loved and remembered when September drops itself off at my walkway each year. I very much hope you've been finding the beauty in your summer's pageantry, poignancy, and Lily Pond luminance.
I have seen such beauty in taking a solitary adventure akin to your friend Rosie Around the World's. I will report on it from time to time as 'experience chapters' develop from my encounters with challenge. The rich kid, only child, from the fancy English household who always swore she was a boy, has given everything she owns to good byes. Andrea and The Weimaraners goes barefoot on an inner voyage to just who was born on December 8th, 1952, and how deeply 'Mount Everest' it is living, letting go!!!
I'm so happy to be incorporating into my book, "Professor in the Sky with Diamonds", the story of power to beat the odds at every turn and to be afraid of no lash of the whip or turn of the screw. This is living!!!!
I wish you the same power and happiness always.
With Love,
Andrea Spencer
(Andrea and the Weimaraners)
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Posted by: Andrea and the Weimaraners | September 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Hello . . .Good Morning,
You know, I'm still thinking. I'm going to take my 'horse and buggy' to Little Compton this week. How about if someone relays me the name of that favorite pie shop of yours and I'll pick up something with a huge smile on it and send it.
Help me out here now . . . seems like the place began with an F.
Signed,
Rhubarb with a Chunk of Cheddar. . . Peach with French Vanilla Creme. . . Thimbleberry with Brazil Nut Shavings. . . or maybe just a simple slice of blueberry with the morning paper.
A and the Weims
andeee@comcast.net
Posted by: Andrea and the Weimaraners | September 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 am
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On this particular day . . . .
A NOTE OF GOOD CHEER
I and National Cancer Society for Animals have been nominated for ABC's Extreme Makeover, Home Edition.
As a member of the media, I'd like to use my promotional and persuasive hand to suggest:
--- A Martha Stewart multi-acre forest and garden on this national charity and historic 1765 property.
--- All Martha Stewart products and furnishings throughout the buildings.
--- Perhaps even a KB Home model as our main house.
Shall I make this request, or turn to a Lincoln Log motif and honor John Lloyd Wright?
The animals and I would prefer to honor Martha!
Wheaton College Student Team
Andrea Spencer
Professor and the Weimaraner Troupe
andeee@comcast.net / 508-622-0415
P.S. Your signature paint marked 'Weimaraner' --- let's start there.
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Posted by: andrea and the weimaraners | November 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 am
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WAGON WHEEL TRACKS IN BYGONE DUST AS "OBAMA EXPRESS" RAILS INTO WASHINGTON --- Hudson River Miracle Crew Needs to Fly in on a Wing and a Prayer.
Hi Martha,
Just reaching out to all of my contacts who have contacts. For all of us involved in this weekend's magical inauguration - someone has got to get our new American pilot hero and his passengers from your Hudson River Miracle into the President's box on Tuesday!
The American symbolism of who we are still as a people of miraculous proportion needs to receive standing ovation at the hand of Obama's moment.
What inspiration to have 155 souls and their hero presented with Obama's hail of "Yes, we can!"
I've put out this plea to my media contacts in New York and Washington, but everyone is so busy this weekend that this last minute idea may very well be overlooked. Someone has got to get these people to Washington!
Who can help me power this up?
Andrea Spencer
Determined Journalist
Countdown to Washington
We Are The World Productions Office --- 508-622-0415
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Posted by: andrea and the weimaraners | January 17th, 2009 at 8:20 am
ANTARCTICA -- JUST A QUICK VISION
OK, now on that Antarctica trip you’ll be taking – Here’s a little present of an idea.
You need to go before spring so you can do a marketing campaign – It’s a Spring White Sale!
You’ll be standing in a white sailboat placed on an endless field of ice. It will have a huge billowing sail bulging from the arctic wind. You’ll be wearing some undecided designer wear in whites, silvers and ‘Weimaraner’ greys. There will be a clothes pole planted in front of the mast with another clothes pole just out of the periphery of the frame. It will be strung with all manner of Martha Stewart shades of white linens and other cloth wear willowing in the sharp spring iced air. What could be fresher!
There will also be a section of the bow just freshly painted in some monochromatic tones of icicle white Martha Stewart paint, with the can, of course, on the frozen expanse just in front of the colored swatch on the boat. The tag will be ‘All things white and beautiful.â€
There’ll be a descriptive paragraph by you, endorsing your trip to Antarctica for the clear, clean glow of this sepal of our very planet. Ten per cent of all sales of Martha Stewart products displayed will go to Save the Polar Bear, linking Pole to shining Pole, as one clothesline, pinning dollars from North to South to achieve a planetary deed.
In the background to the right, there will he a long table in Aurora Borealis colors with Martha Stewart shades of white and pastel dinnerware at the hands of 40 sitting Eskimos. For a close-up of that scene there will be an extended magnifier at the front right corner of the page in a rectangular side bar.
That’s the main photo. The page 2 size photo for whatever you do, be it a feature story or an ad campaign, will be you bundled in Martha Stewart blizzard colored bedding on a white and gold runged dog sled with at least 8 white Samoyed canines in tow. There’ll be a breakfast in bed tray in your lap with an entire new line of spring translucent, frosty Kool-Aid color service wear and a hot blue flower in a tubular vase, with Martha Stewart blue hydrangeas clustered at the tip of the sled. The new line from which you dine by flower, will be called Martha Stewart Ice Wear …Glacial Cool Colors for the Summer Sun.
Plan a wonderful trip!
Sounds like I’m already on one!
A and the Weims
Posted by: andrea and the weimaraners | February 3rd, 2009 at 7:40 am
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. . a note before holding you in my thoughts tonight for your loss.
There is more impact in my heart, now that I realize Genghis was the one you had chosen.
COMING HOME
There is no guarantee that a wise decision made, to either act on the spot with something or wait, will create the outcome you expect. I have made many sensible and well planned decisions where the outcome ended unfairly due to a turn in timing.
I am one who refuses to take on guilt for doing what I thought was best, regardless of outcome. I hope you are of the same ilk.
SHORT STORY
Years ago I asked my father to drive my vomiting Weimaraner Irma to the vets. I was busy on a project and it was a prudent decision based on the facts at hand.
He soon called me from the vets and said, "She's gone." She had died from peritonitis from eating sticks.
Though 23 years later, I still bite the pathos of never saying good bye to her because I was "Busy Andy." However, I had made the right choice for the circumstances in front of me. I did my best and gave guilt to the wind, keeping my sadness instead, as a badge of how much I loved her.
Andrea and Other Loved Greys
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Posted by: andrea and the weimaraners | March 8th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
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A PERSONAL QUIP
"I've known you for 31 years and all you want to do is talk business," a friend said to me today.
I love work, creating, campaigning and achieving far more than playing ball on the beach! I won't be apologizing to anyone for that, but I will CONTINUE to apologize to you for tooting passions into your blog with every turn! I love sharing the BIG IDEA with big 'ideaists,' but if response is nil I should knock on my head that I'm overextending my ardor!
After my long time friend bonked me today, I stopped to think that I again annoyed your forum with a recent commentary on save the dog with brain cancer! I realize I'm having a hard time keeping the preferred tempo, and sometimes my delight with topics will carry me away.
So sorry! -- No beach ball skills.
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Posted by: Andrea Spencer | August 7th, 2009 at 5:52 am
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A Valentine Card from Shakespeare, Noah, Jericho, Butterfly, Spencer and Moses ----
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There's love, there's red, there's chocolate boxes.
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With hugs and kisses, all in one days clocks's.
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Tic toc.... before time runs out!!!!
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We love you Martha, No doubt, No doubt!!
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The Kids
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Posted by: Andrea and the Weimaraners | February 14th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
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AN EASTER STORY FOR MARTHA ----
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I went to see puppies.
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A wild dust was stirred into their outdoor pen by some other Weimaraner, who I never saw rush by, for her speed. A few weeks later this crazy animal would become mine.
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She was no longer needed for breeding. The call came. Did I want her. No, I wanted a puppy.
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Seeing my elderly parents’ eyes crest over with sorrow for this throwaway show dog, brought her home with us to ten ‘depth of heart’ years, until cancer became her life and she blew away.
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I named her Professor Zimbabweeps for a boxful of wild and crazy reasons. Like the dust she created on the day I first met her presence, there was much twirling about her in character and deed. All that she was, named her and named her and named her.
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She was the great heiress of Colsidex Standing Ovation and Nani Mastercard this and Mastercharge that. She was the dog on TV for Fox News, guiding families through animal cancer, and later, the Founder of the National Cancer Society for Animals. She was also the enthusiast, who often tore open cat food cans, smearing the deliciousness into my longhaired wool rug! Mostly she was a nickname –- Those who knew how she came to me in a flurry of dust, and what she had become to thousands of cancer stricken animals, looked at her face and slate stone color, and said, ‘God’s Dust!’
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When our illustrious memories of swimming side by side in Lake Sabbatia, to standing on stage for cameras at Boston’s Prudential Center, came to a close under cancer’s grip, I had her cremated. Her ashes would be spread under two 185 foot ancient pines on the edge of a great hill to the field. We had sat there together, over and over through the years, both musers under the sky.
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Oddly her ashes never arrived. I called and called the crematorium. Mistakenly she had been ‘left on ice’ for 2 weeks! I wondered why I had been ‘fortune’s fool’ to such an indignity. On Easter weekend I found out.
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A Power greater than myself was about to tap me on the shoulder that the throwaway dog would be safe in His hands, and traveling first class to meet him.
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The crematorium called. Professor would be returned to dust from whence she came, on that evening. It was Good Friday. I remembered the thousands of animals. On Saturday friends came from all over to leave peace at my door while the day hung its head in memory of the ‘crazy to playzie,’ the icon, the love…...
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On Easter Sunday, a lady National Cancer Society for Animals had counseled through the loss of her cocker spaniel asked if she could could be the transport of Professor’s ashes home. Into my hand Linda handed me Professor Zimbabweeps. To the field I went. The sun was out. The wind was turning. As I opened the gold canister, her presence.... from the first moment I met her to the last second I watched her.... her presence in dust blew by me with the wildest of speed. God’s Dust.
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A meaningful Easter to you Martha,
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I hope you personally receive this, and find pleasure in reading it..
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Andrea and Professor's Weimaraners
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Posted by: andrea and weims on twitter | April 3rd, 2010 at 11:57 am