Welcome to the official Grapevine Canyon Ranch Blog. Here, Eve will post the latest news from the ranch and we have added some extra goodies such as recipes, and history snippets entitled “Did you know?” Enjoy and we welcome your comments and suggestions! Please e-mail Ben any time with your thoughts and ideas! Please be sure to visit the ranch site for details on specials and information on how you can plan the horse riding vacation of a lifetime!
Dear Friends,
Some time last year we needed to have a press release, and it occurred to me that where best to get one than from the people who come and visit Grapevine and so see it with fresh and unbiased eyes. So we had a competition, and, after quite a while, collected all the entries and picked the three winners. These will be sent to various magazines and papers with our press release kit, hopefully to good effect. However, even the ones that didn’t win were so good we thought we would publish them here, on the Grapevine blog.
Now Sit back and relax and catch up on all that is happening at the Grapevine!
I had been listening, for some time now, to countless people extolling the virtues of something called a Smoothie – and, seeing that it’s something to eat, and so is always of interest to me, I investigated further. It appears that one can make this concoction by using frozen fruit and good stuff like yoghurt – but I am… Continue reading
You know that Arizona is on the national map when the New York news channels start talking about the awesome spring flowers that are about to appear! Generally, especially with the weather news, we are, to put it in cow vernacular, sucking on the hind tit. Are there storms in the east? More than well covered. Frost in Florida … heat wave in Chicago …mud slides in California… you bet you hear about it…. global warming, global cooling, long and short summers – we are treated to it all, as long as it doesn’t concern the south west. Perhaps they think we are still a part of Mexico, before the Gadsden Purchase? Continue reading
I have just come from the camp site where we are holding this week’s Cow Camp – a program where would be cowboys can learn some of the art of handling cattle. We spent a couple of hours erecting a big 7×10 ft. tent, where our cowboys and cowgirls can take shelter in case it rains, and it occurred to me that the rest of you may enjoy reading the… Continue reading
Had another GREAT stay at the Ranch! Everybody looks great and things seem to be going very smoothly after the recent transitions…We both rode different horses from our first stay and they were just as GOOD…Can’t wait to come back…see y’all soon…
Hi All, Just a line to say how much I enjoyed my stay at the ranch. Glad you’ve had some rain – we’ve had plenty here in the UK !!!! Thanks for your wonderful hospitallity and hope to see you all in january 2011. Steve Thompson