From a ranch in northern Texas where the Bluebonnets bloom beyond the horizon there came news from a good online friend that she had lost two of her best friends, Sally San and Finale. I will let her explain who they are and why they were so special. Lynn Baber writes from the heart in a style that makes one feel like you are sitting across from her on the front porch and listening to her speak, a technique I still haven’t mastered...

I guess I was about 8 or 9 years old.  Our next door neighbors had a place down in south Texas, just north of Austin.  My dad worked for the telephone company and we all went down there often.  Now, this was in the 40’s, early 50’s.  He hooked up all these old wall ringer phones around the ranch. Whitey was an old horse..very calm and sweet.  My next door neighbor was always bothering me.  Her parents bought her this little black Shetland...