Boxes, wildlife, melting snow, and no mine

Oh, yes waayyy too much stuff. All the boxes arrived (good) and all the boxes arrived (BAD). I have unpacked them all and yes, some more giveaways are going to happen (mostly clothes and mostly Mark's - ahem).

The weather started warming up the minute we got here and the snow is rapidly melting. Where the ground is exposed it's turned green and there are even tiny little flowers popping up. Spring has sprung - now that doesn't sound quite right, oh, well.

Wildlife sightings on Star Mt. Elk every morning - a whole lot of pregnant mamas. They are super skittish - had my camera ready on our walk this morning and they scattered in the woods way before I could snap a picture. Our walk, by the way, has gone well since day 1. No stopping for the massive huffing and puffing and I can't breathe thing. Happy surprise - can it be that the 3 weeks in Feb. skiing, showshoeing made a difference?
Mark saw a porcupine yesterday, I saw a very glossy, healthy looking coyote,  a red bushy tailed fox this morning, along with an owl swooping across the road in front of us in the woods. And of course the chipmunks and ground squirrels have surfaced. LOVE all this.

Fishing report - well, there's not really one. Every river we've seen is the fun chocolate milk that happens in early spring. For the time being, that's actually a good thing for Mark. He's been glued to the phone on conference calls and flies off to Detroit late tomorrow for most of the week.

Went to one of our favorite restaurants last night for our anniversary - Le Bosquet. Unknown to us, it was their first night open after closing for off season. Good timing. And really, we sound quite ancient - we've been married 39 years! We were children of course...
And lastly, a bit of local news. We missed this in the hysteria of closing on the Florida house and packing up. The largest investor (Thompson Creek Metals) in the proposed moly mine in Crested Butte has pulled out! Hurray and evidently impromptu celebrations with a parade down main street in CB happened. Really though, it only means a delay, maybe years delay, while they find another investor. There is too much of this molybdenum mineral in the mountain (Mt. Emmons) to ignore. Happiness for the time being...