Up bright and early for the breakfast ride. There were a lot of people on the ride as it had been cancelled yesterday! I was one of the last to mount my horse a peppery coloured horse called Cajon. Joe the wrangler said he was a steady horse but was best at the back because he didn't like to be tailgated? (Wasn't quite sure what that meant but all would become clear later!! Had great ride up to breakfast and scrumey breakfast of pancakes and bacon cooked from a...

Woke up to a cloudy day feeling chilly apparently very unusual for Tucson!!! We were due to go on a breakfast ride so made our way down to the wranglers roost. We were some of the first to get our horses, I was pleased because I had A1 again. As we waited for the others to mount their horses it started to rain and after a while the wranglers called us in and cancelled the ride - so disappointing. We went back to our cabins and lazed around for a while then the ...

Woke up this morning to a stormy sky with heavy rain forecast. We had booked a guided desert hike for the morning so got dressed up in our waterproof jackets and set off. Was a lovely hike and only had a few raindrops saw a beautiful rainbow looking Fantastic against the mountains. Still not raining on our return to the ranch so after having a coffee we went down to the tennis courts and had a game of Pickle Ball, a cross between table tennis and tennis we wer...

Up early this morning ready for our first horse ride. The famous knicker bokkers are on, awesome sight, under my riding trousers which seem a bit tighter than they were two years ago (can't understand it they must have shrunk in the wash). Feeling nervous but soon find myself sitting on a pretty horse called A1. The oldest wrangler called Joe was leading our group. It was a beautiful ride through the desert fantastic cacti and a few flowers coming into bloom. ...

Feeling a bit weary this morning but excited. Alan and June went off on the breakfast ride but the rest of us had a lazy breakfast delicious and a lot of it!! Went for a walk by the river and in the desert this morning lovely and sunny! Saw several cactus wrens and some humming birds beautiful. John and Nick went fishing to the lake on the ranch poor John's all got away! Nick caught two big mouth bass and two catfish. Claire and I went to the swimming pool la...