Then one day last August, this 5-year-old Palomino mountain horse came up from Kentucky and there was something special about him. Being a Palomino, we named him Yeller. He was a handsome horse with lots of show potential. We started to work with him almost every day and discovered he was extremely smooth gaited, pretty and very showy. Only a few short months later in October, Steven rode him in the Gaited Horse Show and he and Yeller won several ribbons! Because of Yeller I started to enjoy riding again!

Those many summer afternoons, with just me and a good horse on the trails, left me with a feeling of kinship with horses. Unfortunately, growing up interfered with my relationship with horses. The demands of college, marriage, family and professional practice all conspired together to prevent me from getting the horses I always wanted to have. However, shortly after my 49th birthday, I decided that if I didn't get those horses now I probably never would. So the process was started with the building of a stable and the addition of some fences on our property.