That is my mantra today. Keep it simple, just try to survive.
Our guests went home yesterday, but not without a typical bit of Wild Mountain Farms excitement. Monday night we got a message from the airline saying that their flight out of Missoula was cancelled. After many phone calls they got it smoothed out. Well smooth doesn't exactly describe how yesterday went, but at least we got them home.
4:00AM - Wake up
4:30AM - Take first guest to Missoula airport
5:30AM - Drop off guest at airport
6:30AM - Return to ranch, eat breakfast
8:00AM - Take other two guests to Kalispell airport 2.5 hours away (suprise!)
11:30AM - Drop off guests at airport
... at this point, you'd think any sane person would crawl into bed for a nap. Well, at Wild Mountain Farms, we're crazy like a whole litter of fox pups! Read on ...
12:00PM - Lunch in Kalispell
1:00PM - Pickup goat ... it is on the way home! (The story of the goats will have to be another post)
2:30PM - Return to ranch, settle in Chico (the goat) with Oliver (our lamb)
... nap? Well, I may have passed out for a few minutes while Christie was handling the critters, but then it was right back to work ...
4:30PM - Take Natasha (visiting mare) home, thus closing Breeding Season.
5:30PM - Stop off at Sportsman's warehouse to buy a hunting rifle (that will have to be another post as well, I'm afraid)
7:00PM - Back on the road to Natasha's house
7:50PM - Are we lost? No! There's the turn to Corvalis ... whew
8:00PM - Natasha returned home safe and sound
9:00PM - Dinner at Applebees (yeah, well, it was the only thing open)
10:30PM - Heading home
11:45PM - Home at last, jiggity-jig
Is there a moral to this story? Nah. All I know is that I spent about 20 hours awake, and 15 hours of that driving all around Montana, including driving up and down our mountain three times and I'm tired.
Breathe in. Breath out. Repeat.
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3 comments:
You know, Dave. I wish you'd get off your bum and do something.
There really isn't a dull moment around there, is there?
Well, I think there was a dull day, back in January, but I'm not expecting a repeat this year.
Wow! You turned out to be quite a writer, Son. Looking forward to more. Might turn into a blogger m'self one of these days. Meanwhile, keep looking for those dull days around every corner. LOL
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