Dawn

I wake up to a Remington every morning…

sunset sunrise

Yesterdays sunset.

Today's dawn.

.... and probably more snow in between the next.....

Our house guest

Sadie is visiting for a few days while her people are on a trip out of town. The crew started at dawn by waking up the elk. If you look up the road you can see the elk crossing. The elk were not thrilled about their early morning barking alarm clock. I'm pretty sure my neighbor on the other side of the road is even less thrilled. The elk like to eat the hay he puts out for his cattle.


Sadie and BB just play non stop.


Ginny tries to keep up best she can.

That's quite a bit of snowplow action she has there. We're lucky it's not a wet snow.


The whole crew got crazy.


All through the day.




Right up till sunset.

Why am I the only one who's exhausted after all of this? They should have slept like little doggie logs but I got my 5 am wake up licks as usual.

Dawn after a snow

dawn and a walk

Yesterday morning was relatively warm. This normally means more snow in the near future.

Ginny giving me a little incentive to move up the drive faster....


She's looking back at me all the time now.

The Hellboyz are still roaring along although the dynamic has changed a little with them also. BB is more assertive with Luverboy- and when he gets too assertive Ginny steps in and tells him to shut up in short order. She's known a lot of puppies in her life and she's not takin' guff from any of them no matter how much hair they've got.

all clear on the western front

Well, it's been a busy 2 days. I started out yesterday to the Vets only to discover a dead battery in my truck. It was -17 F Thursday night so that's not a surprise but it still wasn't fun. By the time I'd gotten the truck going it was too late for the Vets. After a lot of phone calls and maneuvering things were rescheduled for this morning.

Jinks' bloodwork is good, his x-rays show clear lungs (yeah! no more pneumonia) and the ultrasound was clean. I am a happy dog mom. He's not back 100% but he's better. Now I just need to cut back on the rations- he's up to 31 pounds!

This is the moon on Friday morning looking west over the driveway.

Good Morning Sopris

This is Mount Sopris above Carbondale. Named for "General" Sopris who "discovered" the hot springs in Glenwood.

It has a "rock glacier" and misses being a "Thirteener" by 47 feet at 12,953 feet altitude. It's one end of the Elk Mountain range- Mnt Elbert the highest mountain in Colorado is at the other end of the Elk Mountains. We're at around 7000 feet at the ranch. Although I've climbed around the Elk Mountains a bit I've never made the hike. I did "ski" up Elbert many years ago but that's another story.


It's warmer this morning (out of the minus' column)



Jinks is looking perky and Ginny is following him more and more instead of the other way 'round.

I've heard the "eep eep eep" of elk the past two nights. They normally come back through here for Christmas and New Years.

dusk to dawn

Mount Sopris views.

For 10 years I lived in New York in the West Village. There wasn't a day that went by that I didn't dream of sandstone under my feet instead of concrete; sagebrush in the air instead of burnt pretzels, fourteeners instead of skyscrapers.



I was going to stay in the City until I earned enough money to leave.



One day I realized I would never have enough money to leave.



So I left.