Friday, July 13, 2007

Oh the Ranch! Where to start... I have so many great memories from my days at the ranch! Each day living on the ranch as well as working on it is a new adventure. I rememebr one day the people on the ranch let me help them round up the cows, I got to ride a horse and go out in to the field and round them up, I felt like a real cow girl....almost! Another one of my vivid memories from the ranch was a day when I worked with Dylan and we supposed to transplant grass from one place on the ranch to another. It sounds much easier than it really is, we were to take a fairly heavy pic ax, i think it was, and swing it over our heads into the ground and dig up this bermuda grass from the roots and fill up a wheel barrel full of it and the take it and replant it somewhere else. It sure made me appreciate the kind of hard work it takes to upkeep a ranch and the work that some of the people here in Honduras live and do everyday. And God bless Dylan for his patience and extra hard work that he had to do that day to make up for the work the manual labor that I attempted to do, but was not extremely successful at. Working on the ranch can be hard and dirty work sometimes, but I love it and it has just really opened my eye and strengthened my appreciation for the farmers who live and work here in Honduras. --Kenz

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