Hunting and then some...

I just realized that our Ranch blog has turned into Jones' blog!  So lets change it up a bit:)

We had our first large group of hunter's come out this week for a very successful hunt!  11 to be exact plus 5 guides.  All the guys were great, very nice and a pleasure to be around!  We hope they come back!  I was very busy cooking and catering to them and got in on some of the action!  Kristen came down to stay with us to tend to Jones while I was back and forth from our house and the lodge.  I just assumed I would make breakfast at a certain time, be done, cook dinner at a certain time and be done.  It didn't quite go that way.  I started breakfast each morning around 9:30. A few hunters would come in want breakfast then head out to see their animals being cleaned and meat being packed in their coolers.  Another group would come in, I would cook for them, they would head out to see their animal being cleaned and meat being packed in their coolers, then the guides would come in wanting to eat.  Then I would have to clean up and sometime in the middle of all that I would have to run home and feed Jones. I would get home about 12:30, feed Jones, head to the lodge to do laundry, head home to feed Jones, chill out for an hour and head back over to the lodge to start dinner at 7:30, head home at 8:30, feed Jones and put him to bed, head back to lodge to feed round one of hunters at 9:15, feed another group at 10:00 and finally sit down with the guides at about 10:30 to eat, clean the kitchen, set out donuts, cereals, bowls etc, for early hunters in the morning, home at 12:30, bed by 1:00! Then somewhere in the middle of all that taking pictures..Whooo, I am tired!

All the hunters were very impressed with all the facilities and all the guides did a great job!  At the end of the hunt they were pros at cleaning an animal!

All the guys had exciting hunts and meat packed in their coolers to last a year!

They were supposed to stay till Sunday but got everything they came to get and left yesterday (Friday) We were exhausted yesterday and was in bed by 9.  This has not ever happened! Ever!  It was so nice!

 I definitely spent more time at the lodge helping than I planned on but had a great time.  I couldn't have done all this without Kristen!  Jones had a great time with her and whined anytime she left the room!  He even gave her a couple of explosions up his back that she had to change! lol.  He has been looking around the house for her today and even crawling to her room a couple of times:(

All-in-all it was a great few days at O Bar Ranch!

I am left now with 17 sets of sheets to wash, 17 beds to make, a lodge to clean, upstairs and down, and a house of my own to clean that I have neglected this week.  All this can wait till Monday!