Joe's gone out with the dogs to the haystack to bring in more hay on the snow machine sled. I made him some biscuits for breakfast and I'm reading email, drinking my tea and juice. I heard on the news about this new 12-step program for email addiction. Hmmmm.
A new month. Within the next few weeks the cattle will be coming back to these fields to have their calves and be fed from the haystacks dotting the valley. On the pinedaleonline page where I read the paper now it showed a newborn Hereford calf, born two weeks early at -18 degrees. Soon there will be baby colts and calves all over the county.
It's another glorious winter morning. Spectacular clouds over the hills, brilliant blue sky. About minus 5 at 10 a.m. There are bits of flashing frost floating through the air. Its not snow since the sky is clear. The snowy fields are also sparkling with a rainbow of colored diamonds. Happy first day of spring to you. I didn't realize it was the first day of spring. Especially since it snowed and blew like a hurricane again this afternoon. Funny day, bright sunny to snowstorm in 10 minutes!
I have an invitation to a ranch that raises Spanish Registry Mustangs over near Devil's Tower in eastern Wyoming north of Moorcroft. June 14-17 will be their 50th anniversary meeting. Anybody can come and roll out their bedroll, or set up their tipi, paint, shoot photos, or ride. The ranch horses run free in the hills, and a lot of the other breeders will bring their horses to provide a large cross section of the registry's horses.
Spent a lot of the day on housework, laundry, cleaned the bedroom etc. Made a casserole of hamburger and sliced potatoes for dinner that didn't get done, even though it baked for 2 1/2 hours. Next time I use the oven I'm going to put in a thermometer to see if its going haywire. Even the cornbread took too long. I lost the self cleaning oven part several years back, so that means its time for a new stove, doesn't it?
