Workin' Hard for Our Guests!

Workin' Hard for Our Guests! Throughout the summer, as guests found out that I was staying at the ranch over the winter, nine times out of ten I was greeted with one response: “You better get a hobby!”. I even had a guest offer to teach me how to knit! There were also a few promises I made to some annual guests that I would be able to play guitar when they returned next summer. Well, now that I am two months into my first winter at Paradise, I can respond with proof that our day to day jobs here at the ranch do in fact keep us quite busy. Jace, our foreman, and Dan, one of our wranglers, have stayed on through the winter and are out facing the snow and chill every day to improve Paradise little by little. While working at Paradise, I have realized one of the most significant factors that makes this place as enchanting and captivating as it is. The attention to detail is phenomenal in this business! Having high standards for the, what might seem as, minor things is what creates that, “I just left something truly special” feeling that fills our guests when they drive out through the FUN gate back to their real lives. Clay and Leah instill their dedication to quality through unfaltering expectations of the staff and most of all through their own everyday example. As our weeks go Sunday to Sunday, the winter gives us the gift of time. We are able to focus on specific improvements while keeping an eye on our precious gem in the Big Horns. The first outdoor winter project was the cattle pens. Our steer and cows that are used for kid's rodeo and team penning are kept on the far side of...