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| Looking down our road from the end of the driveway. |
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| Jesse way down the south slope. |
Friday 3/8. We both shoveled a little more snow today. I dug out more snow from against the east side of the girls' run so they could get the morning sun. JB shoveled out in front of the outhouse doors.
JB thought we might have had an elk Up Here recently as he found some scat. It looks more like milk duds, as opposed to the deer's M&M's. . .
We had pizza tonight, but it will be our last for a while. No more mozzarella or pepperoni or sausage. . .
We have solar lights on our fence that are staying on longer, now that the days are longer. The last one to the south is still covered in snow, but it still turns on each evening. I just haven't been able to get a good photo of it yet.
It was a beautiful day with a high of 38, but it is getting pretty boring writing about shoveling snow, snow falling, snow building up, snow this, snow that. Arghh!
Saturday 3/9. It is 16 this morning with high valley fog and the sky has a light overcast. The sun soon began burning off the cloud cover and we had blue sky. Hopefully it won't entice the fog to crawl up to us from the canyon. Meanwhile, the sun is out, the snow is sparkling and the birds are singing.
After lunch we finally hiked down to get the card out of the game cam. It is quite obvious that our road is the deer highway since Larry drove the SnoCat on it and packed it down. The deer have stripped all the rose bushes of their hips and are now eating the bushes themselves. There are also many rabbit and squirrel tracks about. The photos on the game cam card were of snow, deer, us and the SnoCat.
There are turkey or grouse tracks up on the south ridge. Hard to tell in the snow. By the time we got to the north ridge on our afternoon walk, the high valley fog had completely dissipated. The fog that I took photos of at 1:00 pm!
Such a glorious sunny day, with a high of 36. It was much warmer in the sun at the house than it was down our shady road.
Living Up Here, I am so much more aware of the night sky, the celestial bodies in it, and how they seem to rotate around the earth during the year. Orion has now moved off to the west, having passed along the south of us during January and February. And I was totally unaware of how many nights the moon does not shine. I guess, as a Taurus, I am much more focused on that which is solidly under my feet rather than floating about way overhead.
Sunday 3/10. It is 18 with clear skies this morning, but snow is in the forecast for Monday night and much of the week. Springing ahead to Daylight Saving Time is much easier than falling back, especially for the dogs. Seems we having quite an smooth transition for all of us.
With all that solar power available, I vacuumed and did a few other thing that needed electricity as we probably won't have much of it again for the rest of the week.
We all went on a nice leisurely morning walk in the sunshine and snow. Jesse went way down the south slope, walking on top of the snow and checking out some interesting tracks.
Actually, the whole day was leisurely. Our high for the day was 38, but the temperature drops dramatically as soon as the sun begins to descend towards the western horizon. "Warm" sunny days and cold clear nights.
Monday 3/11. It is 18 and mostly clear this morning with high valley fog. Regardless of when we went to bed, our body clocks know we are getting up an hour earlier than normal. Now I remember - this is the hard part.
Thought for the day: It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you. Tom Clancy
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