Sorry it's taken me so long to get this blog thing up and going. When I'm in the office the day seems so long, but then I get out and all of a sudden the day is over and I'll be dead in the morning unless I go to bed quickly.
By way of introduction, I just copied and pasted my mother's email to some relatives. It's a pretty good description of where I am and what I'm doing. Mostly I'm just a regular secretary doing regular office work- receiving phone calls, filing, sending faxes, etc, but there are some other unusual things they have me do as well. I'll work up to that though.
My blog posts were written in order, I just never uploaded them, so please excuse the first one. It's a little melancholy and not entirely true. The Davies are great and I'm settling in just fine.
Let me now just say thanks to everyone for keeping me in your prayers and especially to my parents for giving me this opportunity and talking to me on the phone.
-Kennan 5/22/12
If you are getting this I figured you might be interested in what Kennan is doing this summer....
Friday afternoon Lynn was talking to a client who markets beef but also runs a huge ranch in eastern oregon. Lynn was trying to set up a time to come out and shoot multiple ranches for the beef website. The ranch manager was swamped with work and very unorganized because his office manager/assistant had just quit a few weeks ago and he was not caught up with the office work. Lynn said he had 2 daughters that could solve all his problems and proceeded to tell him about Kennan's qualifications. Stacy, the rancher, said bring her out and I'll put her to work. Saturday morning at 6am we were on the road to drop her off.
To give you an idea of where Kennan is watch this first video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
She will also learn to drive a stick shift truck, brand cattle, ride a motorcycle and horse, be lonely on the bald-headed prairie and drive 75 miles one way into Burns for church! She will slaughter or rather watch them slaughter animals and she will be feeding deer, swimming in a pond, and who knows what else.
Breakfast bell rings at 6am and dinner at 6pm. She does not live in the bunkhouse with the cowboys, or buckaroos, but will eat with them when they are not out on the range. The woman who cooks for them has been there for 25 years, is mexican and she and her husband raised their 4 kids on the ranch.
She sleeps in a metal shack/house that has facilities! No out house here! But she is all alone unless they hire some cowgirls, which some years they do.
The Stacy Davies and his wife have 6 boys. They are LDS, 3 boys have served missions, 3 yet to go. The local ranchers have had some getting use to Stacy because he doesn't have an adversarial relationship with the government like the the other ranchers, yet he has been very successful.
-Kathleen Howlett 5/7/12
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