A wealthy New England blind woman escaped the shelter of her overprotective family to marry a poor blind rancher in a remote California mountain town, and gets the jolt of reality she'd been longing for. There's more to learning to ride western than just horses, and it has to do with seeing eye bulls, a cabin so small she constantly crashes into her grand piano shipped from home, four elusive children she can't see to feed or care for, and a husband who expects perfection, prays on horseback, makes adobe bricks to build her ...
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A wealthy New England blind woman escaped the shelter of her overprotective family to marry a poor blind rancher in a remote California mountain town, and gets the jolt of reality she'd been longing for. There's more to learning to ride western than just horses, and it has to do with seeing eye bulls, a cabin so small she constantly crashes into her grand piano shipped from home, four elusive children she can't see to feed or care for, and a husband who expects perfection, prays on horseback, makes adobe bricks to build her a proper house, drives a jalopy truck with his seven-year-old son on his lap--and won't ever admit to being blind.
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This book shows how two people from normal though very diverse backgrounds,both handicapped by blindness, can join forces to live a full productive life together The heroine, brought up in a comfortably protective loving family develops increasing loss of eyesight through a genetic disease until the result of blindness. The hero has grown up as part of a loving but struggling western ranch family. His blindness being the result of a HS sports accident. When the couple finally meets they have each struggled with the frustrations of adapting to their handicap. How this couple is able to find a future, raise a family and manage a large Western ranch with changing economic needs creates an exciting, challenging and informative read. The story of this inspiring couragious couple is well told with intelligence, humor, honesty and love..
