I have a new hero to add to my list. And here she is.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OHNeRjC4nJw

This is sweet!! I don't really want to live that long, unless I can still
get on
and off a horse or at least sit in the barn smelling their sweet smells.

Ride life and your horses til the end, girls! :)

Connie Reeves truly was an inspiration. She died 7 weeks before her 102nd
birthday, a couple weeks after falling from her horse (the paint in the
video). She broke a vertebrae in her neck but was recovering when she died
of cardiac arrest. Her thoughts on her fall? She stated that her dismount
may have been her last, but it was not as graceful as she would have hoped!
Here is a wonderful article about her life and death:
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/07/Floridian/A_cowgirl_s_final_ride.shtml