Thank you, Kim......I'm learning about one new thing every day about this little compjuter gem! Ramona, I guess the two stories I sent only went to you - could you forward them to the rest? And Ramona asked me to share the story of the side-saddle riding, so here goes: My great-grandfather's older sister was HARRIET MASON GRAY. Her husband, ALEXANDER GRAY, had lost a leg in the Battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815.... Page 1: "Father told me he had seen ALECK plow in the fields until blood would run down his wooden leg. Father would laugh and tell how HARRIET would call her girls before daylight on Monday mornings and say, 'Get up gals, it's already late. Today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday and then next day Wednesday - the week half gone and nothing done.' She was a widow for many years and many stories were current of her eccentricities and doings. She scorned the side saddle made for women and rode astride a man's saddle in the present style. Once she was thrown by a horse on a country road and landed astride the fork of a tree in such a way that she could not dislodge herself and so had to wait until a traveler came along and released her. Once during the Civil War some soldiers came by her farm when she was absent and took several of her horses. As soon as she learned of it, she followed after and overtook them and made it so hot for their commander he gave back the horses." Kay