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| Jesse & his catch. |
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| Looking north down our drive, . . . |
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| . . .& looking down the canyon to the south on the same day! |
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| All that's left of the little deer. |
Monday 4/8. I saw grouse/turkey tracks in the snow right by the girls run when I went to feed them this morning. It had just started snowing about an hour before, so I may have scared it away.
It stopped snowing by 8:30 am, leaving just less than 1/2" that melted very quickly. So much water was coming off the roof and trees that it looked like it was raining.
The dogs had stayed out after their morning walk, and at 11:00 am Jesse came to the door wanting in with some sort of rodent in his mouth. The tail and hind feet were sticking out one side of his mouth and the head out the other side. I could see long lower teeth in its mouth. He wanted to bring it inside, but I said, "No!", so he went back down the drive. Don't know if he's going to bury it or eat it. I guess we'll find out this evening if he has nasty farts or not.
The fog/clouds moved in by early afternoon and we had another dreary, damp Seattle day. But, hey, we are up on a mountain so it will never be as bad as in Seattle. Our high for the day was just 40.
The girls gave us one egg yesterday and three today! Looks like they are stepping up production.
We made burger buns this afternoon. JB makes the dough and I shape it. Then I made ground turkey patties and we had turkey burgers for dinner. So good! I found two packages of ground turkey in the freezer that I know were not there a month ago. . .
On the radio this evening, Elsie told us that they tried to drive up our road this afternoon, but only got about three vehicle-lengths in. Oh, well.
We watched the last episode of the last season of Longmire, with both of us agreed was a perfect ending. And there were no nasty farts from Jesse, so he must have just buried his catch. By 8:30 pm, it was raining hard and continued til after 10:00 pm.
Tuesday 4/9. It is 34 and mostly cloudy this morning with a light breeze. With last night's rain, more than half of our ground is now showing Up Here. On our morning walk, the dogs and I walked up a wide, green path to the peak. While we were on the east end of the south ridge doing that, JB saw our little herd of seven deer just down the west end.
After morning chores and lunch, JB and I hiked down to our rope gate. The small deer that Larry had told us about has been reduced to three legs and a small piece of hide. I tossed the remains as far as I could over the side of the mountain. But the hike convinced us that I will not be able to drive Miss Kitty out for at least another week. There are a lot of bare spots but also a lot of long, deep areas of snow, 12" to 18". If we had MAX, I would have been out of here long ago.
The wind picked up, gusting to 12 mph, and blew all the cloudy away by early afternoon, but it was quite brisk. Our high for the day was 54.
Wednesday 4/10. It is 32 with mostly cloudy skies and a wind gusting to 10 mph.
Thought for the day: Death is simply putting out a candle because morning has come. Author unknown
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