Week one

What are we doing: “just make it beautiful” said the boss soooo we are weeding, cleaning out all the old growth from last year and making it fresh. Killing gophers. Planting onions 🧅 roughly 460 or so. Harvesting and consuming asparagus. Riding horses. Fixing fence. Putting buffalo back where they belong. Collecting chicken and pheasant eggs 🥚—> eating said eggs 🍳 (only the ones that can’t be sold of course!) hiking mountains, finding slot canyons and exploring Zion National park. 

What’s it like here: 

—weather wise it’s always a surprise…. the nearest weather towns (locations known to the weather app) are about 15 miles in either direction down a mountain….so when it says it won’t freeze there that doesn’t mean it won’t freeze here soooo the first 7 days we were here we woke to frozen pipes 4 of those days but hopefully the cold has passed! (After waking to frozen pipes that first time we unhooked our water line thereafter). 

—communication wise….there is zero I repeat ZERO cell phone service unless you climb a mountain…. but at least the mountain does have a decent view 😜 

Thankfully there is WiFi in certain areas so we can make WiFi phone calls and send messages. 

—work wise….laborious…I have never in my life worked a manual labor type job (though there were a few nurse shifts that left like it!!) But it’s nothing like this we are outside 6+ hours a day and most of the time we are using real muscles! 💪🏼 Pulling pushing hauling raking shoveling etc etc and sheesh bed feels so good at the end of the day….and sometimes even after lunch 🙈 it’s called a siesta 😜

—children wise….they love it! We sing home on the range daily. They are learning a TON (and so are we!)They have gotten to do so many firsts. They sleep sooo good! 

—camper wise….our site is the best we’ve ever had. It’s HUGE! We have a “yard”. A hammock cove. Privacy. A treed area the boys can adventure and play. And a mountain on the other side….it’s pretty great…if only it had WiFi or cell service. (Taking any and all suggestions on how to make that occur…we’ve tried a WiFi booster with no luck 😩)