The Horsepower of the Holiday by Liz Isaacson

Author:Liz Isaacson [Isaacson, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works
Published: 2020-11-03T06:00:00+00:00

Ranger woke on Monday morning, wondering whose life he’d started to live over the weekend. Instead of every day holding the same, boring chores, Ranger now felt like each new sunrise brought with it a day of endless possibilities.

He and Oakley had gone to the town tree lighting on Saturday, and Ranger had never paid much attention to the Three River traditions. There was always too much work to do on the ranch.

Somehow, even with him and Bear focusing on their girlfriends, the work still got done. Ranger had slipped away with Oakley right after the lighting, because Sammy and Bear had spent most of the previous hour leading up to it whispering to one another.

Ranger hated whispering in a crowd. If it couldn’t be said out loud, it shouldn’t be talked about until later. He’d been on-edge right up until he and Oakley had gone to get funnel cakes, thinking Bear or Sammy was about to blurt out something about him and Two Cents.

He’d sent out the push notification to get more data about the restaurants in town, and he’d gotten an amazing response. He and Ward had gone behind closed doors last night to look at the data, and they’d gotten their ten thousand downloads.

“In the first ten days,” Ward had said, staring at the screen. “That’s incredible.”

Ranger showed him a few other stats, including how many people had responded to the push notification, and that had a seventy-four percent click-through-rate. Just over seventy-four hundred people had voted on the Italian restaurant list, and when Bishop had come in from the barn, he’d suggested they do a push every two or three weeks.

“Is that annoying, though?” Ranger asked.

“How else are you going to get the lists to stay up-to-date?” Bishop asked.

“The rating system.”

“The what?” Bishop had leaned closer to the computer and then used his own app to rate the places he’d been. “I didn’t know about this, Ranger. You should do a push about that, and then see what happens. You could then do periodic pushes for specific things.”

“Yeah,” Ward said. “Like a survey: What are you most excited about for this year’s Harvest Festival?”

“Or what do you look forward to in Three Rivers every spring?” Bishop added.

“Good,” Ranger said, typing those ideas into his notes. “What else?” They’d brainstormed for a good thirty minutes, and Ranger had gone to bed on a technological high.

He sat up, ready for a technological war with Bear in that morning’s meeting. Ward would be busy this Friday, and Ranger couldn’t wait another two weeks for a Friday to come around. He’d set up a meeting with Bear, Cactus, and Ward for that morning.

In only forty-five minutes, in fact. He’d promised it wouldn’t take longer than thirty minutes, and Ranger got in the shower so he could get coffee and toast before the meeting and be ready to hit the ground running afterward.

He and Ace needed to make sure all their pregnant cows had made it in from the foothills, take a count, check on their progress, and go over the supplies they had for birthing season.

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