The Ranch Memorial Weekend 2025
Barbara and Jerry
The kitchen early Friday morning ready to welcome all comers.
The grandkids enjoying their breakfast.
There’s always something new to admire at The Ranch and more than usual this time. All these buildings including the kitchen, the barn, the new living room, etc. got a new paint job.
That’s the new library out there that also includes a bedroom and full bathroom. Barbara’s got a system set up to catalogue and shelve Jerry’s 10s of 1000s of cookbooks. An exaggeration? We don’t know yet!
More of the complex of buildings that got the new paint.
Yes! Here’s the link to Pinnacles Country Inn and The Ranch Store.
Shelley runs the store and does most of the administration for Pinnacles Country Inn. Several of the houses where we stay are available for rent and the award winning Oils of Paicines and other products are available for You!
That’s my room in the orange building below. When I open the door the air is flooded by the smell of this huge lavender bush. I just stand there for a bit, enjoying a lavish lavender air-bath.
This has been my room for years and recently Shelley moved some routers around in the other buildings so now I can pick up the internet And look-ie here Air Conditioning! Oh my. This is the exact style of mini-split I’ve been considering for my house. It works like a dream!
The Ranch Dogs.
Rita at the Love Nest.
The Pastor/Pomerantz family preparing their contribution to tonight’s dinner. Everyone contributes something delicious!
Gathering for ‘our’ traditional Friday night Shabbat. Usually we do it before dinner when it’s still light out (non-traditional) but this year ‘we’ were so hungry we ‘forgot’ and did it after dinner (also non-traditional)…
…but it was as lovely as ever.
My front porch light.
Saturday morning we learned how to make tortillas!
Everyone getting in line for a turn.
YAY we did it!
Then the ladies packed up the ones we made with our name on the bag, made a bunch more for seconds, and Barbara drove our creations plus plenty more up the hill for a picnic. There was a good group that did the hike up and the rest of us got a ride. Here’s eating at the picnic tables…
…and here’s hanging out for a while before walking/riding back down.
Carl and Bill solving the problems of the day, and Michael, thinking!
Back at the pool, a friend of Dusty’s and his two girls came by for the afternoon.
One lunchtime a huge wind gust picked up the umbrella and shattered the glass table exactly like what happened to me a few months ago and as I write this my new table is coming today!
Jerry and Barbara’s house, lookin’ good.
Evening on The Circle.
HENRY, Barbara’s pet white peacock since 2009.
Saturday night is Talent Show night. People sang, read their poems, told jokes, did skits, and the Sassy Sisters danced to Lean on Me while Barbara played the drums. Have you ever listened carefully to the lyrics of Lean on Me? At our first rehearsal I blubbered and collapsed into tears! Wow, that was something, but at least I maintained composure the rest of time.
me, Bill, Lynn, Naomi, Sandy, Bonnie, Rita, Ashlee, Dusty
Lew, Carl, Jerry::Connor, Tucker
Sandy made us a great event. She led us in a Qi Gong exercise routine and then we did a meditation based on a sutra, No. 24 from Radiance Sutras by Loren Roche. We were me, Bonnie, Lynn, Naomi, Ben.
A few pictures from a stroll around The Circle.
A common scene, folks gathered ’round.
It’s BBQ Night!
Ah, Samara’s legendary chocolate chip cookies.
Happy Trails to us all, until Next Year!
