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07/27/2025

In memory of Cecile Hetzel Dunn 🕊️ With grit, heart, and unshakable purpose, she helped shape the equestrian world for the better across breeds, disciplines, and generations. 🤍

07/27/2025

Rest in peace, dear friend.

12/07/2024

10/22/2024

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08/06/2024

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Make Them Carry Their Saddle

A father of a darling girl and I were talking last week and he said that he wanted his daughter to ride more and not have to do the work part of the catching, grooming, and saddling. I smiled as I explained.

Riding horses is a combination of strength, timing, and balance. Kids in this country are physically weak (unless they are actively involved with weight training and physical conditioning 4+ times a week.)

When you walk out to the field, you are clearing your stress from being under fluorescent lights all day; feeling the sun soak into your bones. As your body moves on uneven surfaces, it strengthens your legs and core.

When you groom your horse (especially currying), you are toning your arms and stabilizing your core.

When you carry your saddle, your arms, chest, and back are doing isolated strengthening work.

Being near horses, calms and makes you tune into the splendor of these empathetic animals.

When you ride at a posting trot, it’s equivalent to a slow jog calorie burn wise.

After a lesson, the riders are physically tired and mentally quiet and balanced.

Horses feel your heart beat and mirror your emotions back.

Riding large and somewhat unpredictable animals makes you resilient and pushes your expectations.

Working with horses is so much more than learning how to ride.

So parents, make your children carry their saddles. Don’t do the hard parts for them, as long term it actually hurts them. To advance with their riding, they must get stronger. You can help by doing the high parts.

I love having you all at the farm, and am so grateful to get to share these fascinating animals with you.

Hannah Campbell Zapletal

01/11/2024

For those who have not heard, Sara Ring passed away last Friday, January 5, 2024, at the Memory Care Center at Foxwood Springs, Raymore, MO.

Her visitation/funeral will be at Langsford Funeral Home in Lee's Summit, MO, on Friday, January 19, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. Sara will be buried at Floral Hills East Cemetery in Lee's Summit.

11/19/2023

COME ONE, COME ALL!!
Annual Grandview High School All-Year Black Friday Get together.
Friday, November 24th, 6pm at RC’s Back Door Bar (Upstairs in back) Martin City.

RC's Back Door Bar and Grill, 330 E. 135th Street

08/28/2023

Joseph D. Turnbaugh aka. Logan Joseph James

Joseph D. Turnbaugh aka Logan Joseph James, 63, passed away Friday, August 18, 2023, in Milan, MO. Born July 17, 1960, in Kansas City, MO, and grew up in Grandview, MO and South Kansas City, MO. He was a 1978 Graduate of Grandview High School and attended CMSU in Warrensburg, MO.
Joe always had a passion for the outdoors, his dad taught him at an early age, to hunt, fish, correctly use fi****ms and bow and arrow, and he mastered duck calling and was an avid hunter. In his teenage years the family showed horses and he was a very talented rider. He worked for the family business, the Jackson County Advocate, a legal weekly newspaper in Grandview until 1991 when he moved to Milan. Joe used the name Logan Joseph James as a stage name when he DJ’d and sang in Country Bars. He loved the name Logan, his given name was Joseph, his father’s name was James.
Joe was preceded in death by his father, James D. Turnbaugh, jr. (2003) and his mother, Agnes A. Turnbaugh (2017) Lee’s Summit, MO. He leaves his sister, Annette M. Turnbaugh, Grandview, MO, and a son, Joseph L. Turnbaugh, Sunrise Beach, MO and grandchildren.
Logan loved living in the solace of the country in Milan and leaves many dear friends and family. He will be cremated, and his ashes will be spread on his beloved farm. A Celebration of life will be held later in Milan.
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04/20/2023

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Maintenance Action Team painting exterior of the Farm Home. Photo Credit: NPS A Week by Week View of Maintenance Action Team Work Harry S Truman National Historic Site - Farm Home Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Maintenance Action Team Restoration and Repairs NPS