Hiking and Stuff

Jax and I have been out hiking everyday since the bulk of the snow melted. From the day before the storm hit we've seen exactly one vehicle out here and that's it. Most of the year the plastic bowls that we've put out in Kobae's pen for the foxed have disappeared a couple times a week. In the past it has always been cattle dogs when the cowboys were camping a few miles from here with the heard but they've hardly done that this year. A few weeks ago I looked out the office window and saw two ravens taking turns dragging it down to the bottom of the driveway. I had no idea.

In the nights a few foxes show up and an occasional ringtial and skunk. The hybrid fox shows up every night. He sits on Kobae's house and waits for me to throw the hot dogs. I throw the first ones out and the hybrid jumps down to get them and Jax chases him up the hill. The hybrid goes over the hill and Jax turns around and walks back down to the porch all triumphant with the hybrid walking right behind him and he never notices.

The days are low 30s with a wind so probably a little below 30 and 15 to 20 in the nights. I'm surprised there's no ice in the river. Nothing going on across the river.