The main event in January - SNOW

Bit of drama here. The gigantic winds kicked up again causing drifts large enough to suck a number of our neighbor's cars in before our plow guy from town could get here. One set of neighbors had just flown into Gunnison and drove into Star Mt. only to find they couldn't get to their house up the hill. They stayed our house for a couple of hours with tea, coffee, and a blazing fire while waiting for the plow. In the meantime, our landline (oh, yes that antiquated thing) dropped every call in or out, and as many of you know, there is no cell service at the house, making it quite difficult to communicate with the plow guy and the neighbors. That problem is fixed, well temporarily anyway, after repairmen found the main power boxes had blown. How did those miners and their families manage here in the winter...

Lots of snowshoeing the last couple days, which of course guarantees more snow will fall to cover up the hard work of breaking the trail. We went on our neighbors track as well - twice as long as ours and really pretty. Mark spotted bear claw tracks all the way up a large aspen. Quite a sight - what scared it up there?

And so, it is snowing today, but only on Star Mt. 2 inches last night, 4 more so far today. I went into town and nothing. Very disconcerting. And this reminds me to add I have been an unfriendly "Gunny" person on the roads since we've been back as I cannot seem to remember to wave as a car passes by. This is the norm here, just not where we've been. The bigger the city the more its "us against them". God love the small town. It's also the only place I've been where you give out your local phone number using only the last 4 digits.

old miner's cabin

More business changes, this time in Gunnison. Long time restaurant Farrells is closing the end of January, and a new store on Main has opened, called The Local Market owned by Kathleen Curry, our ex state Representative. She and her husband own a natural beef ranch, and those meats are available, plus a whole host of local producers featuring goat cheese, vegetables, soaps, jerky, maple products, bakery, local fish etc. And I forgot to mention the most exciting item for me - local farm eggs! We have missed those tremendously since the farm we visited sold their chickens. Yippee. Crossing fingers she does well.
Also crossing fingers our Santa Fe group will be able to get here Sunday. Possible snow is in the forecast...