I've been working with Paul and Alex to put the plan together for our summer youth program. They will be heading it up, now that Hud has followed his wife to LaPine for her teaching job. Knowing that he would be leaving the ranch, Hud spent quite a lot of time with them last summer while he was working with them to let them know the "management" side of things they will need to know to make sure all of our younger guests have a really fun vacation with us this summer. He'll come out before the summer, too, to help them get everything set up. But the best news yet is that he's planning to be here every Wednesday this summer!! He's arrange things with his new employer so he can come work one day a week here to see everyone. I know we will miss him, and I know my girls will miss him. They're already figuring out how they can be here on Wednesdays, which we usually take off together as a family.

We have the other people hired for the season, as well. One is a good friend of Paul's who has been a youth counselor for several years named Alice. The other is a girl named Hollie who has nannied and been a teen program intern/coordinator at the High Desert Museum. We are very excited to have this terrific youth counseling crew here at the ranch this summer!