We started out farming with horses so that I knew how to manage them. First, I rode the cultivating horse. We planted trees, we had an orchard, primarily peaches and apricots, and we graduated eventually to a tractor, but it wasn’t until I was probably out of the house that we had a good tractor. We did not have electricity in the home when we first went there, neither did we have running water in the house. We had to carry water from a ditch that was carrying irrigation water through our property to the house. And it wasn’t until I was 15 years old that we had indoor plumbing in the home. But my brothers and sisters, we worked hard, we enjoyed life, we didn’t have computers to play with as that didn’t come along for quite a few years but we made due. I learned to play a horsey, and I had my own horse by the time I was maybe 12 years old.
