An Old Haunt

I was driving out in the country last week and came across an old but familiar haunt.

The sign was still up, marking the property, but the horses, trailers, pastures, and ring were no longer there.

The We Like It Ranch! A place that used to own a lot of Paints and that held small, unrecognized horse shows several times every year way back in the 1970s. I used to show Cee and Amy here when I was a teenager.

Since Craig and I moved for his work at the University of Illinois for twenty-seven years, there are gaps in my local knowledge and I do not know what happened to the people who had raised horses here or why the ranch is virtually gone - aside from the sign, you would not know that it was once a very nice horse property.

I do love the vintage sign, though. It is a part of the area's horse-history, and I would like to see it preserved somehow.