The Village at Twilight This week was a hard week. Our cook quit abruptly a few weeks ago, and we figured out that our Pavilion kitchen had been suffering from…shall we say, a lack of stewardship…for some time, so I’m handling all the food ordering, shopping, menu creating, and consequent flack-catching for the Ranch for…
A salad’s a salad…or is it?
Marci and I worked with the kitchen team yesterday doing some major cleaning and reorganization, . I was struggling to move a large shelving unit in the pantry to get behind and clean (the result of which today is a very sore back) when Julia walked past me. She stopped in her tracks, fixed me with a…
Good morning, Moon
It’s once of those staff-crunch times at Down Home Ranch. We’re all doing double and sometimes triple duty as we deal with unexpected staff departures and unfilled new positions. Like the Food and Wellness Coordinator. Changing our “food culture” at Down Home Ranch has been a challenge, to say the least. We once again have begun…
Not the dream he counted on….
I recall the early days after learning my newborn daughter, Kelly, had Down syndrome. “Maybe she won’t be affected as much as others,” people would say in an attempt to comfort us. But this was unlikely. Down syndrome carries both a blessing and a curse in that, once you see that typical little face, that…