Ivy Takes Care (2013)
“Ivy’s mother said, after Ivy complained that the telephone was not immediately ringing with new jobs. Ivy never would have guessed that her next assignment would come from one of the guests at the Red Star Ranch.
“Poor Mr. Burgess,” said Ivy’s father one July evening when the Red Star guests had been taken to the Christmas Tree Lodge for a fancy dinner. “I took him out on the Eagle River trail today. I showed him beautiful Washoe Lake, and all he did was cry. Comes from New Jersey. Terrible wif...e.”
It went without saying that all the guests at the Red Star Ranch had terrible wives or terrible husbands, because that was the side of the story you got when you ran a dude ranch in Nevada in 1949.
Ivy’s dad was a man who hated gossip. On the other hand, it was near impossible not to reveal details of the guests and their troubles, because it was all in a day’s work and there were always interesting guests at the Red Star Ranch.
Ivy didn’t usually listen in on conversations, but she drank in every word of what her dad told her happened along the trails.MoreLess
“Poor Mr. Burgess,” said Ivy’s father one July evening when the Red Star guests had been taken to the Christmas Tree Lodge for a fancy dinner. “I took him out on the Eagle River trail today. I showed him beautiful Washoe Lake, and all he did was cry. Comes from New Jersey. Terrible wif...e.”
It went without saying that all the guests at the Red Star Ranch had terrible wives or terrible husbands, because that was the side of the story you got when you ran a dude ranch in Nevada in 1949.
Ivy’s dad was a man who hated gossip. On the other hand, it was near impossible not to reveal details of the guests and their troubles, because it was all in a day’s work and there were always interesting guests at the Red Star Ranch.
Ivy didn’t usually listen in on conversations, but she drank in every word of what her dad told her happened along the trails.MoreLess
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