Retreat Schedule!

Good morning, writers... Shane here, and while I won't run you all ragged this week, my job as ranch manager is to make sure everyone leaves here enriched...

And possible a pound or two heavier or lighter, depending on the feed bag.

Any good retreat knows when to schedule... and when to allow time to veg, relax, work, play, etc.

We're no different here at the ranch.

Animals like to eat on a regular basis.

So do our guests.

Meals are listed on the program inside your rooms... You can eat in the main dining room, hours are posted, and we don't do any fancy organizing about who eats with whom. That's up to you. You might meet new folks, folks that change how you see or think about things.

Or you can have food in your room, but there's no room service here. We've got trays, and you're welcome to carry a tray up the main staircase and eat alone, but then you might want to think a little about why you're eating alone.

But that's between you and the good Lord above, because I'm no counselor.

I'm a worker. Like my dad and mom before me, and theirs before them. We work the land. We work the day, the night, the week, the season.

And by and by, we get it done.

And by and by we've built a business like few have seen and fewer have had the honor to run.

That day-by-day stuff works.

That's my guide for the day, for Monday.

Some folks can let work pile up, then dive in, and get things done. But most folks see that huge pile of work and shrink back. Then they go another way.

It's like that for lots of us, and that's why I follow that old saying. A day's work now makes tomorrow's work easier.

Wait, that's not really an old saying, I just made it up, but you get it. I know you do.

I've got a schedule, here on the ranch and here it is: I get up... and begin.

Now my wife, she's a night owl and she's up late with all kinds of  things going on. That works for her, and when my alarm goes off in the wee smalls, I know better than to disturb her. She's got her way and I've got mine, and both are good... Night or morning, no one cares.

Long as it gets done.

And that's what regrouping at the Rocky Ridge Ranch is all about... learning to get it done.

And then having the sense enough to set back and relax....