Day dream Ranch..

Well, as some may know I have a lot of favorite shows. Though recently I have come across a new favorite show. I am a BIG, BIG, fan of country music so a few weeks ago I was watchin' GAC (Great American Country, for those of you who are weird and don't like country music, this is a country music video station) and there was a commercial for a new show called "Tom's Wild Life."

Oh man, this is my FAVORITE new show (its only first at the moment, cause "Flipping Out" is over for the season). The guy and his wife run an outfitting business. For those of you, (like me) who aren't hunters, they host people who enjoy hunting, and prefer to have someone there with them to provide equipment and the know how, and property to hunt. They provide food, lodging, and hunting!

Anyway, the main guy on the show lives in Kansas and he  is hilarious! He has celebrity friends who come out to his ranch and hunt deer, turkey, and other critters. Not only do I enjoy the humor of the show, and watching them have fun, but I am pretty sure that I watch this show because I enjoy the life of the ranch.

I also love to keep up with a pretty popular blogger-cook-photographer-author-ranchers wife, named Ree Drummond. Her cooking show (on Food Network) and blog is called The Pioneer Woman. She is too, not only funny, but fascinating to keep up with because she lives in Oklahoma (and is from Bartellsville OK, where I was born), has an insane amount of property and.... well she owns a ranch!

isn't she so cute!

You see I have this secret fantasy of owning a ranch. Yes, thats right, can you imagine me on a ranch? No, I can't either really, but its true! Now, I know it isn't plausible for me to own a ranch, considering I live in California, and I don't plan on leaving and would have to be a BILLIONAIRE to own that much land out here in the sun shine state. Sure, its expensive, but thats not the only reason. I mean, you have to know something about animals and land, and have some kind of way to keep that ranch going.... right?

my imaginary cali ranch

Ok, take my cousin Karen for instance, she and her husband Doug own a ranch in Kansas. Well, you just spend a week out there with them, and you see what it takes to keep up that ranch! Oh my gosh! She has many horses, that they board, and some they own. Now, my cousin seriously knows EVERYTHING there is to know about horses. If one of her horses gets hurt and has a gaping hole in it from trying to get through a fence, what does Karen do? She sticks her HAND IN THE GAPING BLOODY HOLE (I wasn't trying to be British there, it was really a blood hole)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yep, well it had to be done, so she did it. For cryin out loud, someone would have to resuscitate me! She sleeps in the stables and waits for mama horses to deliver babies, and if those mama's need help, she digs in there and pulls em out. ugh. Once, her and Doug were having to fence there property and she had an accident, and lets just say she had to have a blood transfusion!! A BLOOD TRANSFUSION!!!!!!

Karens Ranch

Well, these are just a few reasons why I couldn't own a ranch. I mean if I had a ranch I would have useless animals living on the land. Like, one pig, one cow, maybe a chicken or two, throw in a goat, or a lama, maybe. I mean I couldn't over whelm myself with too many animals. What if something goes wrong?? I'm surely not stickin' my hand any where near ANY gaping holes! If a chicken got squirrely on me, I would probably end up calling the grocery store, to see if one of the butchers could come out and make a hit man type house call, so I could have some nuggets!

((sigh))

Yeah, it will stay just a dream I suppose. I will continue to watch "The Pioneer Woman", and "Tom's Wild Life", and maybe continue my visits to Karen's to get my fix every once and awhile. This will do. For the sake of the poor imaginary animals that would be stuck on my ranch, I shall for go my fantasy ranch life, and stick to my small California semi city life.