Rose Ranch

This past Thursday and again today I drove out to the Rose Ranch. On Thursday the class was doing some tracking and I just watched and had fun walking with the dogs to the various tracks. Kyla got really excited when she saw the horses! To my amazement she wanted to herd them. But I do have one question.....why oh why do dogs think that horse poop is a rare delicacy?

Today was fun too! No dog work.....I went out to the ranch so that I could visit with May, Tom's significant other. She is sooo pretty and so nice! The story behind her and Tom is pretty neat. Now May had been in a very abusive marriage, so she got divorced. Her best friend decided to attend the Tom Rose school and she called May (who was living in Michigan) and told her, "You have GOT to come down here and meet this man! He is so nice!

So......May drove down there....spent a week....she and Tom had a BLAST and then she went back to Michigan. The following weekend Tom flew up to Michigan and told May to pack her bags and come down to Missouri to live with him. Talk about a WHIRLWIND courtship!

And May did just that.....and they've been happy ever since.

She said that they've only been apart for two nights since she moved down there and that was when she went to Tennessee for the funeral of one of her best friends grandmother. When she told me the details of it, I cracked up....and then said, "I must be a sick person." She laughed and said that everyone who has heard about it has had laughter as their first reaction. Anyway, the Grandmother was 99 years old.....one of those old time traditional Southern ladies....and when Obama became the Presidential candidate....she announced to the world that if America ever elected a Black President....it would be the death of her! Well, wouldn't you know it....two days before the Inaugauration, the Grandmother died. The family likes to tell everyone that Obama killed her. :)

The pictures on here are of Tom's ranch. I LOVE his new sign.....it wasn't there last summer.

The one with Kyla sticking her head out of the window was so that I could show the cars of the class parked out there for the tracking and the other picture was just part of his ranch. Tom raises cattle and Paso Fino horses, which are renowned for their easy gait.