Thursday February 7 2008

More Deer from the File

The deer I saw coming home on Tuesday were up to or past their bellies in deep snow. I am feeling real bad for all the wildlife. They must be struggling with starvation. Even the magpies seem hungry. They have been out on the wild rose bush picking off the dried rose hips, something I've never seen them do.

Not much to write about again regarding anything interesting or newsy with us. Joe has a sore back, he says he did it hauling in firewood. So he's had the heating pad on it this afternoon. I kept sort of busy just with regular chores. Had a break in the weather and the sun came out for a little while so I got all the recycling sorted and out to the garage. It's been sitting around the utility room and so now that is taken care of. It was so nice -at the moment - that I walked a ways down the road, certainly not a marathon, but it felt good to be out. The sun even was warm on my face and haven't felt that for a long time. The dogs really loved the walk, especially Raven runs hard and bounds and leaps through the deep snow and drifts. She scared a rabbit out from under the hayrack sled - like a cave under there surrounded by drifts, but there sure aren't any animal tracks out there. Just blank snow. Sparky doesn't go off the road into the deep part, he would be bogged down for sure. He'll stand on his hind legs to peek over the berm in the road to watch what Raven is doing.

As I turned back toward the house I could see another storm about to hit. We just keep having this whiteout and fog,. Even if the sun is trying to shine, this mist is in the air, and I don't ever remember having so much of this overcast for so long a time. It's snowed all day, some wind tonight but not as bad here as other places. Am hearing from friends who are having bad experiences just trying to get home, getting stuck and having to do a lot of shoveling. The weather is awful here with wind and lots more snow falling. All the roads are closed right now. You can't drive from Pinedale to Daniel. We are just going to stay in until this is over. I'm not going to paste any of the stories in, but you can get an idea of the extent of it on http://www.pinedaleonline.com/ .

This reminds me that I didn't report that our power was off for four hours a couple of nights ago from about midnight to 4 a.m. I got out candles and battery lanterns and read by the lantern for a while. I don't know the reason for the outage, and haven't heard that anyone else's was off.

Made Joe Navaho fry bread with green chili pork stew for dinner. He loves the fry bread.