News 2007 Our cook is going to be a she this year. Marc got married in November. Our cowboy who rode for us last fall, Mike Burchum, will join us again and be head cowboy in charge of cows and guests. His wife, Connie, is going to cook for us. They have two kids, Taylor, a girl 13 and Ethan, age 4. Spring horse drive: We have a lot of snow on top of the Pryors at this time and we are not sure that we will be able to trail horses over the mountain ---- we might have to trail them around. Fall horse drive: We changed the last Fall Cattle Drive (Nov. 4 - 10, 2007) to a HORSE DRIVE! Dryhead Ranch NEWSLETTER 2006/12 We have come to the end of the 2006 season and it surely has been an interesting experience, especially for this Dryhead crew. As you know it was our first full year without our head man Joe. We surely did miss his expertise. However, we watched Jake and Jessica really learn and grow. They had the help of cowboys Jay Dee, Ike, Sandy and Mike at different times of the season. Jake has always had the breaking and caring for the horses as his job, previously under Joe’s careful suggestions. Suddenly he found himself newly married to Jessica and in charge of about 1000 head of mother cows and their calves, being ranch manager of about 30,000 acres of mountain and canyon grassland, and all of that through a pretty wet spring, a very dry summer and some wet fall days. They did great and with the 2007 season coming at them they will surely do great.

Jessica and Jake were married in March, just before graduation and the beginning of the guest season [more pics]. As a little girl and a young lady born into the ranch life, she had learned a lot from her grandpa Joe, but she found living at the ranch for a full guest season had many great challenges she had not been a part of before. Iris enjoyed the winter at the ranch. They were snowed in for four or five days out of five months and she amazed everyone with her determination to come back and forth without any problems. She helped supervise our carpenters and construction work in the spring and organized the details for the guest season as always. We finished the work on the bunkhouse and it is especially impressive. The ranch house was the choice of many for accommodations, but that changed when we got the bunkhouse finished. The restoration of that historic building was a real challenge, but truly a work of love. Our goal for early 2007 is to get all of the landscaping done around the bunkhouse and cabins. Jennifer took about 9,000 pictures during the 2007 season. She has sent them to many advertising places in hopes that Dryhead Ranch can be more looked at in 2007. She put 50,000 miles on her suburban taking lunches, picking up guests, and watching out for cowboys and guests. Tyler, at 17, did not work at the ranch this year as he opted to work in Lovell for our neighbor, Brad Tippetts. Many got to ride with them on the Big Horn Mountain rides as we trail cows for Brad and his dad, Wilford. Kristen was rodeo princess for Lovell's Days which kept her riding in parades and being at practices for a good part of the summer. Steve's horse business has grown tremendously this year and he was busy buying, riding, caring for, and selling horses. Marc continued to be our cook for all of the season, but the love bug bit him about August and as soon as the season was completed, he and Sue were married in the ranch house and have now both returned to Virginia to start a life together. He says he wants to come back to join us for the 2007 season, but when it comes time to leave Sue in the spring... Jackie joined us in mid-year to help with the store, the reservations, the email and the advertising. Much to her surprise she got to spend several days in camp during the Horse Drive this fall. She filled in for Jennifer taking lunches and taking pictures. It was a great experience. She is a bundle of energy and ideas for the 2007 season and we are all working together in getting them put into action. We do enjoy all of you that let us know you had arrived safely home. We appreciate all of your complimentary letters and pictures some of them have been put into the website for others to read. Anyone wanting to add to these comments can write them in the website. Just send us a mail. We know that you have had a great adventure when you bring or send your friends and family back to spend a week with us. Half of our guest numbers in 2006 were returns and referrals. Thank you all. We wish for this holiday season the very best for each and every one of you. We hope that Santa will be really good to you this year and health and happiness and prosperity will be some of your treasures for 2007. Come See Us In 2007 Dryhead Ranch Gang PS: We've got many comments, that you enjoy reading the old newsletter. Here are the older newsletters.

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