While looking for a place to relax and renew, we found our Shangri La. It was so lovely, we didn't realize until too late that we had stumbled into a sinkhole of constant work and worry. We also didn't notice in our haste to possess this place (our own live, year-round streams, two of them, and waterfalls, and big rocks, and a two-acre pond, and our own meadows, forests and even a swamp. 120 acres of wild beauty. Oh, did I mention cows?), we didn't notice it was a working cattle ranch.

Yippee and boy howdy!

And oh, my God, what had we done?