Thursday, February 10, 2011

Even Cows Must Think
The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side

We will celebrate our first week back on the central coast tomorrow and are slowly getting settled in to our new home. We are living at the Clifford Ranch with acres of beauty surrounding us. It's a peaceful sanctuary here and is more than we had hoped to find in our journey back to a simpler life. There are no traffic sounds here. Only birds chirping. The neighbors' cows occasionally get through the fence and come over to enjoy grazing in our front yard. The owners of the ranch [Jeff and Tamara Clifford], have an amazing raised garden along with fruit trees, berries, grapes and more. They also have two dogs and four chickens have recently joined us at the ranch and are producing an average of three eggs a day. Tam literally just brought us eggs while writing this! Yum! Thanks Tam! They are also thinking about getting several head of cattle soon so that will be fun. The photos show Casita parked next to the barn that has a garage in the bottom and living area upstairs, complete with bath and kitchen. The middle photo shows the view from our kitchen window. We are surrounded with beautiful, old oaks and rolling hills. The cows are right. The grass is greener here . . . No wonder California cows are happy!

No comments:

Post a Comment