Our Life Here at Rolling Meadows Ranch and Lake Kissimmee State Park

Danny and I have a very interesting life and for many an usual one. Danny is a Park Ranger and I Volunteer. We live in a state own house that we (And many others) restored.....
Here are a few pictures of
Our Neck Of The Woods.....

On Lake Kissimmee Sunset :Tiger Creek and Zipprer Canal.  Headed to Lake Kissimmee State Park .

Rolling Meadows Ranch

Lake Kissimmee State Park...Flags just taken down.

Our Sunset Spot . Rolling Meadows Ranch.

Rolling Meadows Ranch

Sunset Spot. 

Re posting from Sarah’s Attic of Treasures Facebook. January 2013:My Name. Is it Sarah or Debbie?

https://sarahsatticoftreasures.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/re-posting-from-sarahs-attic-of-treasures-facebook-january-2013/State Park, Our Neck Of The Woods, Re-post from Notes, Rolling Meadows Ranch, Sarah's Attic Of Treasure From Facebook

Re- posting from Sarah’s Attic of Treasures Facebook. January 2013

April 21, 2015

My Name. Is it Sarah or Debbie?

January 12, 2013 at 4:10pm

My name. Sarah or Debbie? If you ask my mom, She will say Debbie.
If you ask Danny or anyone here in Florida, I am definitely Sarah.
I even had the pastor include the name, Sarah, along with Debra Sue, in our wedding ceremony.
If you would have asked Bobby: All of his life, except for one time, he introduced me as Debbie, his mom. The one exception, when he met Danny. For some unknown reason, when he met Danny, Bobby told him to call me Sarah. He met Danny here in Florida on vacation. They got to be good friends even though Danny was my age. (Well, 4 years YOUNGER). So Danny has ALWAYS called me Sarah. ALWAYS. I am never Debbie to him. Not teasingly, not in anger, not at all.
I am Debra Sue Kasch. That is the name I was born with. I love the name and am very proud of it. I kept the Kasch for most things after I married Danny. At Danny’s request. The Kasch name died with Bobby. Or at least our link to the Kasch name died. So in honor of Bobby. In honor of my father, grandfather and all the Kasch’s before I still use Kasch except for legal stuff etc.  As a child, I was called Debbie, Debbie Sue, Or Deb. My family and close family friends  still am called that.
Classmate call me both. Growing up there were so many Debra’s, Deborah’s, Debbie and Debbie Sue’s. In high School there were over 20 of us. One day in fun, my best friend, Dan (different one of course) jokingly asked me what I wanted my first child to be named if it was a girl. I said Sarah Elizabeth.  Or Rebecca Lee. So he started Calling me Sarah.
It caught on quickly and before I knew it I was being called Sarah by almost everyone I came in contact with. It just clicked with everyone.
I will never forget the look on my mom’s face when Dan was visiting us and he called me Sarah for the first time, in her hearing. OUCH!
She is never quiet if she has an opinion. Mom had one and let it be known that I was NOT SARAH but Debra Sue or Debbie . You get the picture?
I can still hear her say that. I remember my sister calling me that once. Another OUCH. That’s how I always thought of Mom’s words. OUCH. Like a burn. For the most part, no one called me Sarah, around my mom for many years…. To Dan’s wife and kids I was called both. Interchanging. Aunt Debbie. Aunt Sarah. Still Am. When I got on FB, It was 3 years after Bobby died.  My personal site was Debbie-Sarah Kasch. I still have that one.  I needed both names so people could find me.
When I met the Angel Mom’s I was Bobby’s MOM Debbie…….. Yet, here in Florida, I am Sarah.
They never knew Bobby.
Yes, It is confusing at times.
I was quieter then and didn’t post much. Imagine that? I certainly didn’t share myself or Danny to the world like I do now. I didn’t want to share Bobby with everyone. SO I stayed quiet for awhile. I reconnected with my classmates from High School. I added friends I’d known all my life. I added my friends here in Florida. Some continued to call me Debbie. Others called me Sarah. It took a few people awhile to realize I went by 2 different names. They thought I was 2 different people. I started getting questions. The angel moms for the most part are the ones who went from calling me Debbie, to Sarah, when I started sharing Our life here. When I started sharing Our Neck Of The Woods, (A page just for the Lake Kissimmee State Park, Rolling Meadows and life in Florida. History. Our Life), they started calling me Sarah more and more. I called myself Sarah. I can’t explain it better than that. I answer to either.
The name I miss most is MOM.
I never get called that any more. At least not very often. When I do it’s Dan’s kids or an old friend of Bobby’s.
Now about the pages:
Sarah’s Attic of Treasures and  Debbie’s Attic of Treasures are the same except for the name. Exactly.
I have Our Neck of the Woods about Danny and I and our Park Life.
I have Sarah’s Life: What Was . Was is . What Will be. It’s about  Life in Illinois, Colorado. Bobby, Danny and I.  Mainly Bobby and I. It’s very small. Mainly for me.
I have Bobby’s Memorials. I also have a page called Getting To Know My Friends Through Our Children. It’s a page for grieving parents, grandparents. Etc.
Sarah Sue is the account I use for Sarah’s Attic Of Treasures and all of my pages, except The memorials.
It’s a fun account. It’s where I like to hide.

Re-posted From Sarah's Attic Of Treasures on Facebook. Jauary 2013:Where Danny and I live, work, play, laugh and love.

There's been a lot of confusion here about where Danny and I live and Work. It's is a bit complicated. I talk about us working at Lake Kissimmee State Park , Rolling Meadows Ranch and even at Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park. I also mention Catfish Creek ,the Creek. I mention living at the park and RMR.It's all true. So here's a bit of the story: In  November 2006, I moved to Florida from Colorado. Danny and I moved out of the house his Dad had built when he was a child. His dad died when Danny was 6. He lived in Haynes City all of his life. We bought a 5th Wheel and moved to Camp Mack Fishing Camp.....Camp Mack Road, Lake Wales. It's right across from Lake Kissimmee State Park. Danny was working at Bok Tower Gardens at the time.
February 1, 2007, Danny got a job as a Park Ranger at Lake Kissimmee State Park (LKSP) I started volunteering. August 4, 2007, we moved the RV across the street to LKSP and lived in what is called Day Use Area. I was Campground and Day Use  Host....Among many other things. We lived their until December 2008.
We moved over to Rolling Meadows Ranch. It was a SOD FARM til the state took it over 6 years before. The Sod people totally moved out January 4, 2009. We remained in the RV until the Cracker House was Gutted and remodeled. (Part of the kitchen was left as it was. I wanted the CABINETS.)We worked on the house for  almost 4 years. We moved into the Cracker House and out of the RV in September 2011. It was not totally finish. Not by a long shot. We also need the RV to cook etc for months.
Lake Kissimmee State Park manages Rolling Meadows Ranch.  LKSP also Manages Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park (CCPSP) or Catfish Creek. LKSP also manages a place called Money Tree and  a few other tracks of land.Lake Kissimmee State Park also leases pasture land. All the pastures seen from LKSP to RMR on both sides of the road belong to LKSP.Rolling Meadows Ranch connects to CCPSP. So LKSP has almost 20,000 areas to manage.   Rolling Meadows Ranch is the largest of the 3. It's where we take our NIGHTLY DRIVES that I talk about. It's more of our Evening Rides because we usually get home around Dark.
Catfish Creek runs through CCPSP and RMR. I'm usually speaking of RMR'S Section of it. SO HAVE I TOTALLY CONFUSED YOU?  It takes time to fully understand all we do.

Animals In and Around Our Neck Of The Woods

https://sarahsatticoftreasures.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/animals-in-and-around-our-neck-of-the-woods/  Dad and Baby Sand Hill Crane.

This Week In Our Neck Of The Woods

https://sarahsatticoftreasures.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/this-past-week-in-our-neck-of-the-woods/

https://sarahsatticoftreasures.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/this-past-week-in-our-neck-of-the-woods-part-2/https://sarahsatticoftreasures.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/this-past-week-in-our-neck-of-the-woods/

Mowed From Fence To Fence

https://sarahsatticoftreasures.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/mowed-the-yard-from-fence-to-fence/

TThe Woods, Rolling Meadows Ranch

Mowed The Yard From Fence To Fence

April 11, 2015

Feeling pretty good. I AM NOT a morning person. I am a late night ..can’t sleep gal.
So when I walked out the door 30 minutes after I got Danny off and started up the lawn mower…I was on a roll. Almost 3 hours later I was cleaning the grass /weeds from the mower. Blowing it off.
Shower taken. Now What? This was taken a few weeks ago.

More Rain . Storms . Beautiful Sunsets.

We have had a very rainy summer. I am not going to ramble on about how much I hate SUMMER HERE IN FLORIDA....JUST BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I DO.
One thing I never tire of is our beautiful skies. We have awesome cloud formations and colors. Spectacular Sunsets....Sometimes at the same time....

Rain . We really have had enough.

Another Stormy Evening on Rolling Meadows Ranch.