Carnine Ranch

Liz Meyer I Haven't seen much of the Hannah and David for the last two days. Dan Carnine has six ranch kids who have shown these city kids the time of their lives. As you can see, the Razor is the vehicle of choice with Leo (age 12) driving one, and his older sister (age 14) driving the second one. Off 8 of them go across the 650 acres of this cattle ranch, to climb haystacks, drive through the heifers with their calves, out to Carnine Lake, and move from grandma's ranch house, which has housed the first two generations of Carnine's around the alfalfa crops to their huge house on the hill, half a mile away. Their dad, Dan, the next generation, runs the ranch now. "Grandma" is Dorothy Carnine, who was a Tri-Delta at college in Flagstaff with Ada and me. We always make a point to stop by the ranch on our way to the island. The kids are all fast fiends and we all take our meals up at Dan's house where all 15 of us can sit down together.
When we added our three dogs to the mix, the dogs almost outnumber the people - ten in all, all ages and sizes, but all getting along well. Cinda could run everywhere, checking out toads, rabbits, calves up close, etc.
Time to go...two very dirty and tired kids just dragged in for bed!