This past weekend I joined the Sisters on The Fly to camp, relax and take a day trip to visit a working ranch. This was my first time joining these ladies who's motto is, "we have more fun than anyone." Oh yeah? We'll just see about that!I will write more about these wonderful ladies in an upcoming blog. For now, I will talk about the day trip we took to a working ranch in Northern Arizona. I knew that the plan was to visit a ranch, however I didn't know what was in store for us. We were greeted by some amazing and welcoming people at the ranch house who were gracious and more than willing to take time out to pose for a photograph or two for me. The kids were wonderful. The scenery was unreal and everything was what you might imagine a ranch to be.
Being from California, I haven't had the opportunity to witness a working ranch and see how these folks live. It's a life of hard work and love for what they do, since you won't get rich being a farmer. It's a way of life that they love and for them, they wouldn't have it any other way. We took a tour of the ranch, were able to pet some horses and at the end of the tour, it was time for all of us to watch as they branded several cows. I am not a meat eater, but I do respect what they do for the people who do eat meat. It was hard for me to watch at first, especially seeing how stressed the animals were to be put in the situation they were in. As far as treatment of the animals go, I know that there are much worse situations so I would consider these cows lucky to live on this particular ranch.
I look forward to more experiences such as this one. For more photographs of life on this ranch, click HERE.
