An Evening at the Ranch

Cassandra's friends, Celia and Mariquita, are visiting from California and Val invited us over to dinner at her ranch. The flock of wild turkeys has been hanging around waiting for apples to fall off the heavily ladened trees and Cassandra collected a handful of handsome turkey feathers.

There are a couple of calves living in Val's front yard because they're orphaned and need the special feedings that Val gives them every day. Three cows died during calving season after eating some poisonous weeds. One of the calves found a surrogate cow mama, but the other two depend on Val for nutritious supplements to their grazing.

Dinner was delicious of course. Val provided her grass-fed beef steaks and we all potlucked various vegie dishes and apple pie dessert. I forgot to bring a chicken breast to BBQ, but there were ample side dishes and I ate hearty.