So, now I knew what I wanted and had already been looking (more like browsing) at horses for months but nothing really caught my eye!

I get a call from Coral and she said that the girl who she bought Diva from lives in NC and has a horse (an arab) in CA that she needs to lease ASAP. I went back and forth (with myself) and then decided that a lease would be perfect for me, especially being such a beginner. I thought that if I didn't like having a horse, then I could give her back...

So we move Coral's (step-daughter) horse (Diva) to our property in Alpine, per her Dad's approval and of course he isn't going to do anything to take care of the horse and it would be on me. Mind you, he has fought me for months on getting my own horse. But now he has agreed to have me take care of a horse when Coral is not at our house .... wasn't that nice of him.

Anyways, I always have intentions one way or another and getting the approval to have one horse on the property was...

Okay, I'm going to start from 'my' beginning with horses!

Of course, being the typical girl, I always wanted a horse of my own growing up, although it was out of the question and no one in my family owned one or was even interested.

I rode with my sister's friend Valjean a couple times and once I fell off while on a canter and held onto the side of my horse by the mane. I pulled myself back up and kept on cantering!! Being a smaller child, it was easier to hold...