SUNSETS AT THE HERBERT RANCH ON CHRISTMAS EVE

Wow, look at these breath taking sunsets. I don't know of anything more beautiful. We so enjoy many evenings like this around the campfire while looking at the sky. You would think these colors could only come from an artist's palette.

Here we are leaving the ranch. This ranch entrance is about 3/8's of a mile from the ranch house. Then about a 1/2 mile on dirt road to the paved road.

To save the UPS, FED EX and other delivery companies for having to open the gate, watch for longhorns, then drive another 3/8's of a mile to the ranch house, Loy has this outhouse at the ranches gate. The delivery company knows to put any packages in the outhouse.

Loy is quite a decorator. She decorates her whole house and big porch and the ranch gate, not only for Christmas, but Thanksgiving, Easter, Valentines Day, Fourth of July and etc.

Mesquite trees are big in these parts. Hoppy pulls up the Mesquite roots with this monstrous apparatus machine called a Mesquite Root Chisel Plow.

Fish pond at the ranch house. There are Coy and Goldfish.



I come up to the house just to sit on the bench
 and watch the fish swim around. It is so peaceful.

As "The Night Before Christmas" song says: "The stockings were hung on the chimney with care". They have 4 grown children and lots of grand kids. Even the deer got decorated.