Mike & Diane on sun 15 may 05
Dear Dannon,
I think I'm moving to southwest Indiana.
Diane Rae
Royal Thrown Pottery
Great Falls, Montana
Where last week it snowed and tomorrow it will be 78 degrees. Gotta love
Montana and the extremes. Think we'll hike to the mountains where we can go
from 78 to 30 in 1 hour.
<<<<<<<<<<<<< So I'm still musing on how things change
and don't change. There are a pair of foxes who have a den
under the end of the barn, and in evening the four young ones
come out and play. They are already half adult size, I'd forgotten how =
early they are born. The adults sit on a knoll
between the barn and the pond, and are not particularly wary
of people coming and going. Not a hundred feet from the foxes den a =
pair of Canada geese have hatched out seven goslings on the pond =
(despite my best efforts to discourage
them). They ignore the foxes, and if the foxes have a taste
for goslings, they have not done anything about it. Of course,
the male goose is extremely aggressive, so there is no easy
meal there. The barn cats come and go from back porch to
barn, trotting past the foxes den as though it were not there.
The deer and turkey make their daily rounds across the long
meadow and back, sometimes I see a coyote watching them.
The coyotes are here because the deer are here, but I never
see any sign that they've got one. The fawns will be born in
a couple of weeks - most are born about Memorial Day, in these parts. =
Then there'll be even more deer to contend with,
but I wouldn't want to miss the fawns......
Mushrooming has been slow, morels not so plentiful this year. Too many =
hunters; same for ginseng. Hard to let any
grow, because people feel free to trespass, take whatever they find, =
after all "there's a lot of woods, here". Last summer
some strong storms came through -took down a number of
trees. Now, the Amish are here to take the downed timber
out, make good use of it. It is disturbing to me; these woods
have not been timbered in a long, long time. So, the
woodcutters were pretty excited. Even taking just the downed trees and =
the topped ones, they're thinking maybe
300,000 board feet. They arrived yesterday with some equipment, and =
three teams of Belgian horses. They started
across the long meadow to get to the first lot of downed
timber, and got stuck almost instantly. Lot of rain, past few
days. So: they calmly got out of the truck, unloaded the
horses from the trailer, hitched two of them to the front of
the truck, pulled truck and huge trailer up the hill, and then
walked the horses back into a side meadow. The empty
truck and trailer followed meekly behind....Like Mark Twain,
I watched.=20
Got to get to work. =20
regards>>>>>>>>>>>
Dannon Rhudy
dannon rhudy on sun 15 may 05
........> Dear Dannon,
>
> I think I'm moving to southwest Indiana........
Our weather can be pretty various, too. But Montana
is famous - or infamous - for it's late freezes and snows.
A beautiful place, though. And I have still not ever been
to Yellowstone. Sometime soon, perhaps.
best
Dannon
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From: "Mike & Diane"
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: Mostly Off Topic, Plus Calcium, Dannon Rudy
>
> Diane Rae
> Royal Thrown Pottery
> Great Falls, Montana
> Where last week it snowed and tomorrow it will be 78 degrees. Gotta love
> Montana and the extremes. Think we'll hike to the mountains where we can
go > from 78 to 30 in 1 hour.
>
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<< So I'm still musing on how things change
> and don't change. There are a pair of foxes who have a den
> under the end of the barn, and in evening the four young ones
> come out and play. They are already half adult size, I'd forgotten how =
> early they are born.
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