This is my favorite picture. It is of me as a child, Betty Raetzsch, at our ranch, the Raetzsch Ranch in the Sand Hills about 15 miles from Seguin, Texas. I was riding Black Pete, our ranch horse. Everyone else said he would try to scrape them off under tree branches but he did not do that to me. I can't remember exactly when I started riding horses but I was young, as you can see from my photo. We raised a few head of cattle, white faced Herefords and Santa Gertrudis. My Uncle Alvin Pieper helped with the ranch a lot.