Buying the Ranch

When we all bought the Lee Ranch we had no understanding of how lucky we were to inherit the Lee’s with the Ranch.  Escrow took forever to close and during the exhausting transition we found ourselves friends, the Lee’s may have a different definition of what we have become   The Lee Ranch became the North Fork Ranch and very early we all had decided the 103 year legacy had to live on wherever we could honor it.  From the very beginning we realized we did not have the luxury of just moving into the ranch we had to create an income or the ranch would slowly eat us alive.  A bag of seed to plant the field $1,000.00 and that’s if it takes and you don’t plant it to deep or to shallow or to much water not enough water.  There’s equipment that daily calls out (change my oil, start me, did you see the dust has clogged my filters) There’s a three mile water pipe that during the dead of cold winter water pressure pops holes in the pipes just to say hi with huge sprays of water. Not to mention plumbing, weather and daily chores.  Our first winter was a 20 year winter storm.  It started out as a beautiful snow day with pictures being sent to everyone look how beautiful until about mid day when Ah oh crossed our minds.  But here’s the best part no matter what has come our way WE HAVE FIGURED IT OUT AND WE HAVEN’T KILLED EACH OTHER… we only have one life line being Gary and Lois Lee, most of the challenges nobody on the other line is going to help they’re pretty much hanging up after the first sentence.  We’re thankful for our regular texts from Lois hey it’s time to change this or do this or look out for this, we’re even more thankful that they still pick up the phone… I know they hang up and still have the best laugh ever, and probably even mumble the word idiots regularly, but they still answer that phone and take the time to help us in our time of need…

So we’ve made it year one and now year two we have come up with a plan, only time will tell if it’s a good one but it’s time to put our big boy pants on and pretend we know what we’re doing…  God Help Us