The Ranch in 2023

YAY!

me, Carl, Rita, Barbara, Jerry, Lynn – Sandy, Lew, Bonnie, Damon, Samara, Brett, Mos – Ben, Naomi, David – Denis, Michael, Bill

The top picture is a night scene generated by my phone. It used to remind me of AI(?) as it generates pictures in the dark.

But now we know otherwise!

.These are Marijke’s shoes from when she and Bob climbed down to the stream. I didn’t go with them.

This family dining room is among the rooms that have internet and everyone who comes here sits quietly. It’s lovely, overlooking the ever-popular basketball court and ping pong table.

Speaking of dining rooms, this is where everyone gathers for breakfast and dinner. (Lunch is out by the pool.) Each evening Jerry passes out a couple of cartoons from the New Yorker for a caption contest. I am hopeless but many others contribute hilarious suggestions.

Where we have lunch. There’s a nice kitchen in the pool house, a pool, hot tub, changing rooms, the tennis court is beyond the green gate.

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Good Morning!

More pictures follow of ‘going around’, everyone’s daily stroll.

Heading up to the Vista Deck and Fish Pond.

Jerry has two of these people movers now so no one has to make the arduous (read steep!) journey up by walking unless they want to. I rode, both ways. From here Jerry also took everyone who wanted to out for a 4-wheel drive to see the pond.

Barbara had organized a lovely box lunch picnic.

A view from the corner of the deck looking down on The Ranch.

Marijke walking up And down with her wolf-dog in tow.

I’m a sucker for these night-sight pictures I take in darkness with no idea how they will turn out.

A white peacock Barbara hand-raised from a chick in 2009. I took the above through the mesh on his enclosure.

Although Ben and Bonnie and a few others including myself came on Thursday night, the traditional start to the Memorial Weekend at The Ranch is Friday.

A morning stroll ‘going around’. The picture below is also a piece of the walk everyone takes once-twice-three times a day.

So many decorations.

Every year we have the traditional Friday night:

Everyone gathered for candles and songs.