WELCOME TO MY FIRST
ALL "MINE" GRAPHIC PAGE
I finally did it !!!

This is my very first attempt
of "creating" graphics of my own
I am dedicating this page
To my Friend.
Her name is DONNA
and without her patience
and time spent teaching me
the "hows" and "how to's"
Well,
This would look ALOT different.

I quess I need to introduce myself,
My name is Cindy
but people have started calling me "Kick"
since I have been online.
Short for Kickapoo
which is the name of the Indian tribe
that used to live on my property
a long,long time ago.
I live in a very small
community of about "500" people
Our population sign say "419"
but a few have been added
We don't have to lock our doors
and can leave the windows open
and the keys in the ignition over night
or to run into the store.
I moved here 17 years ago
and put down roots
being a military family
and later marry into it
I have never lived in
one place longer than 3 years.
So, my roots are deep here.
I have 2 children,a son,
Ted,
who is 30,
and a daughter,
Sandy,
who is 20.
Both are married.
Ted has given me my first grandchild,
Jaylyn Nicole.
I divorced in 1980
and have remained single,
it is easier
and less complicated that way
when children are involved,
Now,
Well,
I hate saying too old,
so as a friend once said,
You're not old, just "SEASONED".
Sounds better that way.(hee hee)
Anyway, finding the internet
as brought the world to my finger tips
and I realized
that I am alot like everyone else.
I have so many likes and hobbies
and the next pages I create
will address alot of them
I have learned alot doing this one
had help on the other two
and I think the rest will go alot faster
geeezs, I sure hope so
I know "Trial" and "Error" so well,
especially the "Error" part
I guess I should explain
something to you
on why this has been so difficult for me
In 1986,
I had a very serious horse accident
with severe head trauma
I am ok ,
the wonders of plastic surgery
and a few wires
and bits of plastic
but the residual of the accident is,
I have a very hard time
comprehending what I read.
It takes a lot of repetition
to get things to the point
that I can remember how to do it
without having to have instrucions close.
So, bear with me on that.
The bullets below are of things to come
So,check back regularly,
I'll work as fast as I can
and I promise you won't be disappointed.
:o)

Before I get to the bullets,
and a viewing of my site AWARDS
I am so excited about those!!
I have some history
about the county I live in.
Here it is,
see if this sounds familar.

The names of Loving and Goodnight
are synonymous of the early day
ranching history of Palo Pinto County.
Both men settle there
before the county was organized.
Loving came with his family in 1855.
Goodnight and his mother came in 1856.
They became partners
in the ranching business in 1866
and in June of that year blazed
The Loving-Goodnight Trail westward
to New Mexico and Colorado,
one which thousands of Texas Longhorns
were later driven to
the western markets.
Oliver Loving might well be called
"The Father of Texas Trail Driving,"
according to Charlie Goodnight
who said he was undoubtly the first man
to trail cattle from Texas.
This was the year of 1858 when Loving
drove a herd of Longhorns
from his Palo Pinto Ranch
through the Indian Nation or
"No Man Land," across Kansas, Missouri,
and into Illinois.
In like manner,
Loving pioneered the first trail
to Colorado.
In 1867,Loving and Goodnight
started out again over the same trail
with a second herd of Longhorns.
This trip ended in disaster
for Loving near the Pecos River,
when he was shot
by the Indians.
He later dies from the wound.
The partners met in
Ft. Summer, New Mexico,
before Loving died,
and Goodnight promised him
that he would bring his body back
to civilization for burial.
Loving died September 26, 1867.
In the fall of that year Goodnight,
true to his word,
brought the body back,
carried by wagon to Weatherford,Texas,
where it is interred.
Goodnight marketed their cattle
and bought Mrs. Loving
her share of the profits which amounted
to about seventy-two thousand dollars.
Charlie Goodnight
left Palo Pinto County in 1876
and established the first ranch
in the vast plains country
in the Polo Duro Canyon.
He ranched in that section of Texas
until he died at
ninety-four years of age.