• Run For The Roses or a Mint Julep

    The Kentucky Derby is tomorrow (always the first Saturday in May)! Attending the Kentucky Derby is on my life experience bucket list. The perfect excuse to wear a pretty dress, don a large hat, and watch magnificent horses all while sipping a cocktail, and not just any cocktail, THE MINT JULEP. Horseracing is in our blood. For nearly 50 years, our grandparents, William C. and Barbara Nelson, owned and operated Gunshy Manor, a 165-acre farm located in Redmond, Washington, that became one of Washington’s most successful breeding farms. It all started when Grandma Barbie bought a Thoroughbred mare named Triple Punch, a 1957 daughter of Triplean. Her first foal, the…