Cattle Drive along the road. Looking Across the Field in Back. Fixed Joe ham and biscuits for breakfast and worked on my other usual duties in fits and starts. Another day with not much happening. He's still working on his woodpile in the morning and watching sports in the afternoon. There is a lot of smoke in the sky again to the west.
Betty Pfaff called and I really enjoyed visiting with her. Sounds like she is keeping busy with her family and doing pretty well. I wish we lived closer, but she's clear down in Kemmerer.
Today my cat Smokey let me pick her up and put her up on the feeding "table" where there was a dish of canned fish cat food for her. I've lifted her for an instant a few other times. She lets me pet her while she eats and seems to like it, but never comes to me any other time. She has never hissed at me or anything. None of the other cats will come in while there is any commotion or if the dogs are around. Smokey even walked up to Sparky and kissed him on the nose. Sparky's eyes got kind of wide and he stiffened up like he was surprised but never moved. He is always looking for "cats", but doesn't chase. I think he wants to be friends. Raven's a different story, she wants to chase but is getting very good about restraining herself. I saw the mother Rascal for the first time in months the other day. She was up in the eaves of Joe's shop. I was very glad to know she's o.k.
There have been some cows in the field by our gate all summer, but Doc brought over a bigger herd this morning. It always means summer is about over when the cattle start appearing in the hay fields after they've been mowed. We've noticed that Muddy Creek has about quit running, seems like it's more dry than I've ever seen it. It has sometimes stopped running down toward our property, but there are always springs and ponds. The cows all have black mud up to their bellies where they have had to get in the mud that deep to reach some water. Luckily Doc and Jerry had a well drilled in that field a few years back and can pump the cattle some water. I've never known that they used it yet, but they might need to this year. All the rivers are so low, its very sad looking to see a mighty river with just puddles around the rocks on the bottom. I wonder what will happen to the fish.
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