Wilma Ridin' Out
Well, it is official – Doug and I sold the Double Circle Ranch yesterday. It is time to retire and put the ranch in the hands of younger folks. The Bryce family from Pima bought the ranch. They are several-generation cattle ranchers with good work and conservation ethics and years of experience raising Brangus cattle. Three generations of the Bryces will be here running the Circles. I look forward to watching the three youngest – rough and tumble little boys – learning to ride this country and grow into top hands.
Doug and I are keeping our cabin and acreage along Eagle Creek. And we will still have the bunkhouse for old friends to use. But the Bryces will not be doing the tourist business for a while. They want to learn the ranch, stock young cattle and get them acclimated to this country, and remodel the NO Bar house before restarting the dude ranch business. So all the programs will be put on hold for awhile. Hopefully, the programs will resume in a couple of years.
At any rate, it is a bittersweet sale for Doug and I. We are just plain tired and need to take life a little easier. Plus we want to travel – and that is pretty well impossible when you are running a ranch with no help but each other. In a way, we have the best of both worlds. We have the cabin, bunkhouse, 2 horses and our dogs. We still have 3,000,000 plus acres of national forest/primitive areas/wilderness areas to ride and we will finally have time to do that. Plus we have new neighbors – and great ones – in the Bryce family. It is a good setup for us – I sure will miss the Longhorns though.
Tree Silhouetted at Twilight on the Ranch
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