Janet Post has been a reporter and photographer for several north Florida newspapers, garnering multiple Florida Press Awards for agricultural and sports stories. She lives on a Suwannee County ranch with her husband, who makes his living shoeing horses and cowboying. Around their place, everything is counted by the head. They have thirty head of cattle, two head of horses, four head of dogs, ten head of chickens, two head of cats, and eight head of grandchildren.