She "married and moved to the desert," trading life on a dude ranch (where eating lamb was like ordering lobster) for life on a sheep and cattle ranch—and she loves it. Shirley reflects on how to keep the ranch in the family—her husband Kevin's family homesteaded there in 1856—and the ways in which the economics have changed, as well as on the fortuitous opportunities for the sheep to be used in a noxious weed eradication program. 13 minutes.