What if you could move from the city out to the country? And I don’t mean just anywhere in the country so that you can start farming. I mean moving to a rural area out west.
Would you do it?
I’m sure some readers will say yes while others will say no. And that’s fine. There is no right or wrong answer here.
The reason that I bring up this question is because a young lady who grew up in the city decided that she needed to make a change. And it was a big change. Ryan Cashman writes,
A herd of cattle roaming under the wide expanse of a Montana sky is a far cry from throngs of cars honking their way through rush hour traffic in Portland, Oregon. But that was where Emmie Sperandeo once found herself, commuting to and from work twice a day from Monday to Friday. As the symphony of frustrated horns reached a crescendo, Sperandeo had an epiphany.
“This is not what I want to be doing with my life,” she thought.
What did she do?
Sperandeo purchased a camper trailer and started traveling to any ranch that would take her. She learned how to rope cattle and horses, irrigate hay fields, handle firearms, move cattle herds, rotate pastures, and brand livestock. “My thinking was, how do I gain as much experience as possible so I can be valuable to the next place I work? So, I tried to say yes to almost every opportunity that came my way,” Sperandeo said.
I’m sure that living in Portland made learning about firearms especially uncomfortable for her, but being able to handle a gun is a necessity on a ranch. Coyotes and other predictors aren’t going to leave your animals alone just because you give them a stern talking to. Guns aren’t optional in ranch life.
But now she is in Montana and making a life of it with her own property and animals.
And, I have no doubt, she has her guns with her, too.
