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Welcome to the Black Diamond Ranch website!  We hope to share our passion for country living and easy ranching with you, our family and friends. 

Our ranch sits on twenty acres just outside Council Bluffs, Iowa, in the Loess Hills.  We are surrounded by hills and have a great riding area just across the street that includes a beautiful ten acre lake that attracts Canada geese and white tail deer.  Our home seems to be a haven for prairie quail and pheasants.  We truly have a slice of heaven.  We love to share evenings and weekends with family and friends in front of the pit fire telling stories, laughing, and eating s'mores!  Come join us!

Words we live by:

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.  We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.  We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."  -- Aristotle