Fire and photography

So the ranch has been CRAZY busy lately- Stacy and Elaine went to the east coast, their oldest son and his wife just moved here, OPB came to film the ranch for a segment they're doing on modern ranching, six Japanese are here to learn about beef/take pictures, another large group is coming in tomorrow, and meanwhile there's a fire in frenchglen so everything is smokey and the phone rings all the time with either news or questions about the fire!

The awesome sunset that the photographers wanted to have in the background of the dinner scene.

Three of the six. Out of all of them only the girl in green could speak English, she was the translator. The man on the left is one of the best photographers in Japan, and takes pictures for a high end magazine where the pictures will be featured.

It was a weird evening, Elaine was going crazy cooking up a storm while her daughter-in-law (Melissa) and I helped out cleaning and cooking and finding tablecloths and pitchers. The the Jappanese people came and picked Stacy, Elaine, their son Wes, Melissa, and ME to be in the picture. They picked the least cowboy person there, I wasn't even wearing plaid like everyone else.

So we all sat there and had pictures taken, some looking at the camera and some "candid" ones. Smiling wasn't too hard because we were all laughing anyways. The photographer kept speaking to us in Japanese with instructions as if we knew what he was saying while the translator no where in sight.

Everyone else was extremely relieved to not be in the pictures and stood by watching the funny scene. This is Scott, the Davies' youngest boy.

I'm sad I forgot to take a picture of the food- it was really really good, the Davies certainly know how to cook steak.