The Cowgirl's Cottage

You are staying at a rustic yet cozy guest-cottage on Susanna’s ranch. You can explore Susanna’s ranch, including gardens for vegetables, herbs, native desert flowers, a small fruit orchard, and a dry garden of patterned sand and rocks. Susanna’s ranch house combines the classic western and prarie looks with “Shabby Chic” and “Cottagecore” styles, with dusty-blue and pink paisley bandana patterns, warm brown colors, soft leather and suede upholstery, tattered cream lace, patchwork quilts, Texan yellow roses, and wildflowers. She keeps various candles around her house that are scented like leather saddles, fresh green horse feed, caramel and cinnamon baked goods, or local herbs and wildflowers. She invites you to help her make dinner in the ranch house. You share with her a meal of delicious chili, a fresh vegetable salad with herbed buttermilk dressing, and brown bread rolls, made with whole wheat, oats, and molasses, and served with a spiced honey butter. There are chilled drinks, including Sarsaparilla, Cactus Pear-Hibiscus, and Wild Apple sodas. Susanna makes the syrups herself from raw sugar and fresh local herbs, spices, flowers, and fruits, and combines them with cold carbonated mineral water from a local spring. After dinner, she invites you to share stories and tall tales around a firepit in her desert garden.