There are many life lessons to learn by owning a ranch. Linda Mills, of Legend Valley Longhorn Ranch in Richland Springs, Texas, shared some that relate to her life. Feel free to share your Ranch Lessons by emailing the editor.
Things I’ve learned in the last four years of having a ranch...
1. SOMETIMES your husband’s dreams become reality - just go with it. God’s got it.
2. Six months of tent camping every weekend in the heat of summer can work - tent fans and a cold shower before bed works wonders.
3. While I prefer indoor plumbing, I can survive without it and really appreciate it when home.
4. When your husband wants to do all the labor, like building fences, that means he wants you to be his helper. Good team building most of the time.
5. When you shower outside, Longhorns like to drink your water in your foot bucket, so you never actually get to be alone. Watch your back.
6. Nothing that comes to the ranch will ever be clean again. 7. Longhorns multiply quickly. Six to 45 happened fast.
8. It takes longer than you think to heat the 1978 Airstream trailer when it’s 20 degrees outside. An hour later, and we were up to 40 degrees inside.
9. You will always be scratched up, and it’s not unusual to find a tiny little red cactus thorn somewhere on your body three days later or to wash your ranch clothes and put on underwear only to find sticker burrs stuck in them.
10. Have lots of first aid kits. 11. Palpate on cold days. Keeps you warmer.
12. Have a jack that can actually lift your trailer full of cows when you have a flat.
13. ATVs and lassos don’t go well together. This was not in my street-smart books, and now I have a nice second- degree burn across my wrist. Just thankful I have my arm.
14. Don’t get in between a bull fight even in a truck. Bulls will win.
15. It’s hard, it’s fun, it’s frustrating, but most of all, it’s made us a better team, as a married couple and as a family.
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