Between that first morning and the next month I could see him for who he was through the way he treated the people and little one that here was a man who deserved the role of father and friend. If it was raining little one was coloring or reading in front of the fire in sir's office, on nice day's she would be outside with wolf walking by her side or sir on warhorse riding and on occasion sitting leaning against warhorse with wolf and reading out loud to them and even some cats and cattle around. I watched her get stronger every day until she looked like a normal 5 year old. when she got tired wolf would run for sir who would come out pick her up and carry her to lay in his office under the covers and sleep. When Mari and I came up with ideas that would increase the profit his interests would generate he would listen to our suggestions and if the worked he would say good go ahead but he looked at things differently if the increase would hurt the employees or if they could benefit the employees more he would tell us to put it to use for them why and this is his words " I did not make this money off my sweat I make it off their sweat and they should benefit as much if not more then me". Now being a couple of working class slobs you can see what a boss like this could mean to us. when we explained that if they don't like it we can always replace them and his response "girls you can't replace experience check the retention rate of companies I have an interest in against other companies in that field" when we did we found that for every employee we lost the closest competitor lost five and most of the ones we lost would come back. I'll let Mari explain how he did that.
How do you not fall in love with a man who from day one treated with respect always addressed you as miss would put business calls on hold to listen to your question and answer it even if he did not know he would make sure he got back to you as soon as he found out. Stood up when you entered to room waited for you to sit before sitting back down it was automatic with him. And would stop you if little one came in with a childish question and answer it first as if it was the most important thing in the world. When he was done showing or teaching you some thing and answered all your questions stand up come around his desk hold his hand out to you and walked you to the door when it was over shake your hand or let you give him a peck on the cheek. And it was not just us it was anyone who came to see him if you were part of the ranch you were treated with courtesy at all times. At the end of the day if you came to him with a problem he would call the kitchen have diner brought in and sit with you till the problem was solved to both of your satisfaction. He was awake before you and went to bed after everyone else, he made you feel everything he did was done for you. He lived by his own rules but those rules always were to benefit you. so by the end of that first month Mari and I were both in love with him and wanted to give back to him everything we had and there is when we ran head first into the wall of honor as we joke about it now.
