Our docents, Russ and Jerry, dressed in period clothing told us the details of life on the hacienda. Families lived in one minimally furnished room. Even the ranch owner only had a larger room with a few benches and the alter for use by the itinerant priest. Later homes had larger rooms. There was frequently a bed over the fireplace to be used by anyone ill and by the shepherd who spent over half the year in the hills with the sheep.