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Weather in nearby Clifton, AZ
(Our weather is ~7° cooler)  Fair, 46 °F UPCOMING EVENTS Ranch Photography Workshop
Erosion Control Workshop #6 Spring 5-Day Cattle Drive Vacation End of Summer 5-Day Cattle Drive Vacation Women Only Ranch Vacation
Erosion Control Workshop #7 2012 Workshops |
Riding Fence in the Tall Pines We have a new ranch hand intern. Aerin is here from sunny California to learn a little about ranching and check out a different lifestyle. He is still on the vertical learning curve. One thing he learned very quickly is that horseback riding lessons in an arena are not [...] Doug and I took a two day break and went to the Cowboy Music Festival in Tombstone. What great music! Don Edwards was the featured [...] Cowboy Bill Emrick Rides By Double Circle Ranch is pleased to welcome Bill Emrick and his family to the ranch. Bill and his wife Amy, and kids Josie and Seth will be an important part of the ranch from now on. In Bill we have a good working cowboy, a farrier, a cowboy poet, a [...] Double Circle Ranch has had another intern. Dave from Seattle is spending a month here doing all types of work. [...] Cowboy Karl Gatherin the Longhorns Our friend Karl was back to the Double Circle Ranch last week. He drove in from Los Angeles. Karl wanted to get the feel and spirit of ranch life. So we put him right to work. Karl and I rode picking up remnant cattle and herding cattle on the NO [...] Herding Texas Longhorns Jeremy Balderrama is here working as a ranch hand intern. He is an absolute breath of fresh air – makes you have confidence in the younger generation. He is a college student with major in Animal Science and a minor in Criminal Justice – and a second minor that I can’t remember [...] Hands-on ranch-hand/Cowboy training in ranch skills. Cattle herding, horse care, riding, solar installation, house/barn repairs, monitoring forage, etc. [...] Karl on his Cattle Herding Vacation We had a wonderful guest here at the Double Circle Ranch last week. Karl Lentini from Los Angeles came to the Double Circle for a cattle herding vacation. He spent a week riding and herding Texas Longhorns. He chose this ranch because he didn’t want to go to [...] There seems to be a slightly different philosophy about horses between cowboys and buckaroos. Cowboys value their horses and take care of them. They are the carpenter’s equivalent of a good saw and hammer – tools to be used and well taken care of. Buckaroos come from the old Spanish horsemanship school. They too value [...] Getting back to the differences I’ve observed between the traditional cowboys and the buckaroo we’ve hired, here’s what I’ve noticed about their riding [...] |
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