Horse Tales - Lake Wales, Florida

One weekend, when I was in Junior High , my boyfriend, Douglas Mann, took me to his mother's cattle ranch outside of Lake Wales. She was going to be out there and drove us out. We decided, since I had ridden before, Douglas would take me for a ride on some quarter horses. These horses run as fast as a car, I found out. They use these horses to round up cattle. Well, we started out across a wide open field, and the horses we were on decided it would be great to run wide open and stretch their legs. My eyes got so big and I was seeing my life pass before my eyes. Douglas forgot to tell me how to stop a quarter horse. Well, I started pulling back on the reigns and that made the horse run even faster. The horse decided to try to get rid of me and get me off his back, so the horse headed toward a hammock of tall trees and bushes. I just knew this was it, because I couldn't stop the horse. Ahead were some low fat limbs. All of a sudden, here comes Douglas on his horse. He rode up beside me and grabbed me off the horse and saved my life. It was one of those rare moments. He said, He couldn't get me killed the first day out at the ranch. His mother would be mad. We slowly rode back to the house and doctored my ankles where they were bloody from trying to stop the horse. I lived through it and we, of course, grew fonder of each other. One of the guys I went to school with, said Douglas carved a heart on his garage with his and my name. He is a lawyer in Bartow. He is married and has children.