HIGH DESERT, CALIFORNIA

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July/August 1976
by Meredith Wambaugh  
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Although we loved Silver Spur in all her run-down glory, we figured she could use a little beautification here and there. Hence, soon after we moved in we went to work cleaning and fixing her up. (We felt that as long as certain things needed doing, we might as well go ahead and do them . . . even if they weren't part of the original deal.) The owner is pleased.

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Besides caretaking the ranch, we have other money making jobs . . . many more—in fact—than we really want to do. (There's not enough time left over for crafts!) It all started with some part-time weeding and has since snowballed into a regular church gardening job, a once-a-week motel and store assignment, and a multitude of other regular "odd jobs". We came upon all these openings by word of mouth and we still feel that "the grapevine" is a person's best bet for obtaining freelance rural employment (we think our situation proves that).

So. We one-time gypsies have really and truly settled down now and dug some roots into this country life.I will say that it's a lot of work . . . but despite this (and despite the fact that we don't own the land we live on) we love every minute of it. We can't even bear to think of returning to city life.

And we're not at all "the exception to the rule". There are plenty of places that need caretakers . . . plenty of ranches, homes, and farms that someone could live in, free of rent, in exchange for a little work. We've heard of many such opportunities since returning to the valley one and a half years ago . . . and this is just a single small area. Think of the number of opportunities that must exist in the whole country!

So all you folks out there who're living in the city while dreaming of a life in the country, take note. There's no real reason why you can't be living your dream right now.

To quote Jon D. Taylor (MOTHER NO. 32), "For Pete's sake, go!"

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