She is older than me yet she runs the ranch all by herself. Today she took us on a tour of her property and let the girls feed all her animals. The seven girls were charmed by it all, along with four adults, especially the small goat being bottle fed by hand in her kitchen. Her land is lovely with a stream running through the middle. In the Hill country, streams are hard to come by especially streams that run all throughout the year.
Jan. is a kindly soul and provides a good home for her animals. It takes her over two hours each day to feed them. She has many many goats along with several horses and burrows, three dogs, numerous feral cats, ten emu's and eight llamas, also a dozen fancy ducks, all housed on her three hundred acre ranch. This is the first year since her husband died that the ranch has been profitable.
Her goal is to able to have the ranch sustain itself, so she is pleased for this year of success. Her peach crop was large and she sold much of the fruit to a local market. She regularly takes the young goats to the auction for sale and she sells the young llamas too. And that is the extent of her income from the ranch. But she is happy working hard around the ranch and she works hard to keep healthy. Many people would not enjoy her life style, living alone in a remote part of Texas, but she loves it. Her children who all live in Colorado think she is daft, but she wishes to work herself to death rather than rusting out from lack of activity.
She is a good neighbor and I am pleased to have gotten to know her since we moved to Texas. Each of us left with an emu egg to take home and eat. The eggs are dark green in color and 6 6o 8 inches long with very hard shells. Each egg will feed four adults, the eggs are so large. What a surprise.
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