That's a definite possibility, Katherine. The only thing that I wouldn't understand is why they would leave the ranch area to visit people that don't live on it but have some control over the land or even those who don't have any power over it but may have simply been perceived as favorites of the deceased grandfather.

Stephanie

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.--Ralph Waldo Emerson