As The Crow Flies

These horses have been loose for at least 2 months. Nobody knows who they belong to. In this area it’s okay for cows to be loose but not horses. They came right up to my cabin this morning. I came out with apples for them but they ran away.

All my neighbors dogs bark at me and hold their tails between their legs when they see me. Despite putting out almonds and oatmeal for the the birds, they won’t come. I think I may have Miss Gulch syndrome.

It’s a beautiful sunny day and almost all the snow is gone.  I feel sort of stupid sitting here without winter.  I’m starting to check out places to go again.   I don’t want to just sit in my cabin.  I’ve done that enough.  There is  no substance to this winter.    No frame.   I want  something different.

We got lots of snow– and the wind blew hard, but sometime last night the world got warm.  Now my beautiful thick powdery snow  is nothing but a slushy mess.   The forecast is calling for 100% chance of ice pellets.   Weather can be so disappointing.

The snow is here! Winter has arrived. It has been snowing all night and it’s supposed to continue all week. I love it.

It won’t be long before my pathetic woodpile will be nothing but a small bump in the landscape. For some reason that makes me laugh.