Tag: California

Handsome sheep rancher in his mid forties with dark hair, short beard and hazel eyes standing in front of a wooden shearing shed with sheep in Northern California at golden hour

I Had 47 Days to Win $60,000 or Lose My Ranch. The Only Thing I Was Ever Good At Was Shearing Sheep, So I Flew to New Zealand to Beat the Best in the World

In New Zealand, sheep shearing is a sport, and the best shearers in the world are treated like rock stars. I’m a 46-year-old sheep rancher from the far corner of California with a bad back and a lien on my land. I had one shot, and three hundred sheep between me and keeping my home.

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Handsome bachelor rancher in his late forties with dark wavy hair, light stubble and hazel eyes leaning on a wooden fence next to a palomino horse among Sonoma vineyards at golden hour

My Horse Escaped 14 Times in One Month, and Every Time I Found Him in the Garden of the Same Woman. She Was a Retired Opera Singer, and She Was Not Amused

My gelding Bandit has never jumped a fence in his life. Then a woman bought the old farmhouse next to my ranch in Sonoma, and every morning at nine, he was gone. I’d find him standing in her rose garden, ears forward, completely hypnotized. It took me fourteen escapes to find out why.

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