Santa Rosa
on the ranch
22.10.2010 - 29.10.2010
22 °C
I made it to Santa Rosa after a 3 hour Greyhound up the 101. Some dad picked me up and dropped me at the Rincon Valley library where I met Linda McDonald for the first time. Rode shotgun to the ranch, cleaned up, unpacked, picked a bed and took off for some Italian. I had ravioli and a beer. I don't know what the other guys had but they're names are: Dan, Toby, and Emillian, from Spain, England, and France respectively. Went to the grocery store afterwards and picked up some food and more beer and when we got back to the ranch me and the guys stayed up bit chatting and drinking. I called it a night soon enough, I was tired and had to get up at 6:30 a.m to start work.
Wake up, eat fast, walk a mile up the mountain, quick muck stalls, set feed for horses, feed ponies and goats, clean pony area, let ponies and goats out, let horses in to eat, clean perimeter, let horses out, thorough muck of horse stalls, muck pony stalls, set evening feed for horses and ponies, fill water, dump waste, walk down mountian, lunch for 3 hours, let in horses, let in ponies, close doors to chicken coops, close doors to duck house, feed lower goats, walk a mile up the mountain, let horses out, avoid mountain lion, walk down the mountain, diner, read, sleep... 4 days in a row, in the pouring rain.
Now it's my 3 day weekend and I'm going back to San Francisco.
Posted by agrievous 28.10.2010 17:35 Archived in USA
