Slim Randles' Home Country
Lost and found: Home on the ranch
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[November
02, 2013]
I was invited recently to join Bob Milford, manager of
the prestigious Diamond W Ranch, on a drive-around tour of the
place. It's a huge, private ranch, with tiny ex-logging roads
winding around through 13,000 acres of pine trees and rocks. A real
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But I was horrified to see wooden street signs nailed to trees
wherever two of these old logging trails came together. "Oh no," I
said, out loud.
"What's the matter?" Bob asked.
"I see you're planning a subdivision here."
Bob started laughing when I pointed at the signs. "Those are for
the owners," he explained. "They live Back East and visit here one
weekend a year. When they get out here, they take the pickup and
drive around and get lost.
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"Once I got a call on the cellphone from the owner. He said he
was lost and couldn't find his way back to the house. So I asked him
where he was, and he said he was right there, sitting on a rock and
close to a pine tree."
He chuckled. "That narrowed it down to about 13,000 acres. Well,
I managed to find him, and after that, I put these signs up. I tell
them now, if they get lost, to drive until they come to Home Road
and then head downhill. It solved the problem."
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