If you have a sincere desire to experience and learn about life on a working ranch, you may wish to consider an intern position at Crystal Creek Ranch. Please check out our website info here crystalcreekranch.com/about-us/internships/ Thanks!
We’re looking forward to a new season at the Ranch. We made new changes to the Overlook Ranch House by adding a 5th bedroom downstairs with 2 queen beds, and replaced several other beds with queen size ones. We also added new wood flooring to the kitchen and all bathrooms, as well as the two upstairs bedrooms, and the downstairs hallway and kitchen area. We replaced and upgraded foundations and porches at the Russ Noah and Lakeside log cabins also, as well as new bathroom floors in the Cabin Ridge House. Spring is almost here, and the daffodils are in bloom. See you soon!
My favorite place to stay on the ranch has always been the Lakeside Log Cabin. Built of logs that were hand hewn by settlers here in the Ozark area of Eminence, it was fun to reconstruct it from its old Courthouse lawn location to our lake back in 2008. Shown here is the cabin as it was before we dismantled and moved it.
If you have a sincere desire to experience and learn about life on a working ranch, you may wish to consider an intern position at Crystal Creek Ranch. Pleas check out our website info here crystalcreekranch.com/about-us/internships/ Thanks!
AAAhhhh….frozen pipes this morning from 6 degree cold and the failure of both my heat lamps in the well house. Folks that have city water probably don’t appreciate the fact that they don’t have to maintain a complete water system from well to house! But the water sure tastes good….as long as I fix the water heater element every 6 months because of the lime [and we don’t like the soft water systems]. Gotta love country living!
As I basically stumbled around the kitchen, preparing my coffee in the early morning glow of a new day beginning, a significant flash of white in the corner of my vision caught my attention. It came from a small little meadow of sorts that is in front of our house. Four deer were waking up to an early Spring morning, just as I was, and stretching. Now I’ve watched deer quite a bit over the years, but had never seen this particular behavior, to which I could easily relate, as I did my own stretching along with them. The white of the underside of their tails was so visible because as they extended their front legs in a stiff sort of bow to the ground, their tails remained high in the air for what seemed like a very long time, even though it was only measured in seconds, i’m sure. They could also see my presence in the half lit kitchen, and were observing my movement at the same time as I did theirs. A nice start to the day.
