Wed March 10 2010

The back of our house faces west and we get breathtaking sunsets, but today the morning had something special for us. We live one hill over from the Lime Saddle branch of Lake Oroville. The morning started bright and clear and stayed that way at our house, but along the river the fog came in slowly

then thickened
spread out a little

covered the hills behind us

and slowly faded away.

We took the camera with us when we drove to Beth's school because the weather had been so spectacular this morning.

Lake Oroville is starting to fill. This is where the mist had been just a little while before.

When we got to Paradise there was surprise waiting for us. SNOW everywhere. Beth grabbed the camera and took some wonderful pictures.

Thank you for your concerns about Mr. S. As you can see he is doing well. He hops, leaps and jumps with joy. We still have a couple of weeks before he's out of the woods.

This may just look like a trailer with hay on it, but it's much more than that. It means Jim is feeling a little better and can load the bales for me. For the past week, I've had to cut the bales and load them on the trailer a few flakes at a time. It took forever. The Dr said Jim had an intestinal virus. He knew it was a virus because Jim's eyes hurt. (????)

The plan was to move Julian and Banjoe to the lower barn. The horse trailer could be used for horses again. However, plans did work out. As I lured them down the hill to the barn, Ruby made it clear those strange animals were really strange. Now Ruby has been out with the calves, eaten around the calves and generally ignored the calves. But today, they loomed larger than life. There was snorting, foot stomping and racing around .

Julian and Banjoe have been around horses since they first came here, but they would not venture into the barn. They looked at the horses as though they were calf getters. Ruby couldn't believe those wild and crazy critters would come near her barn. The calves did not move into the barn tonight.

Love is a pretty girl, isn't she? The sun is setting and it's the end of a beautiful day.
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