Happy Birthday Papa!

And many, many more!

You taught me to ride, from the time I was 4 years old, from Shetlands to Thoroughbreds.

Paints,Pintos, Palominos, Appaloosas, and Appendix Horses.The difference between a heifer,steer,cow and bull.

Hereford,Angus,Limousin,Santa Gertrudis,Longhorn,Holstein,Jersey,Brahma,Belgium Blue.

The right way to saddle a horse,to make a makeshift halter,ride without a saddle and to make do without an arena but to use your imagination and create the pasture of jumps,barrels and calf shoots.

Many a late night in the cab of a pick up truck on a Sunday evening at the vet's office eating Snickers and drinking a real coke with peanuts.Learning more than I would ever see in the school the next morning.

These are but just some of my fondest memories of things that came so natural to you and were passed down to me.Like many that you learned from your father before and growing up in Southern Oklahoma as a young boy.

Like you my love of the horse is still true today.

 The smell of leather, feel of a hand tooled saddle and the coarse mane of a horse makes my heart skip a beat!

 I owe that to you as I have the same feel for the horse running in my veins. It seems to be an inherited type of love that you cannot really understand or ignore,but it lies there waiting to be saddled.

Happy Birthday Dad & Papa!

Love,

L.

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