Disappearing snow, hints of spring, and more travel

Drip, drip, drip. The creeks are muddy and the snow is disappearing more everyday. Outside work is starting, spraying down the deck, moving outdoor furniture up, and shoveling the gravel back on the driveway after snowplows pushed it off. Blah, that last one is a killer job, a monstrous amount has to be moved.. Definitely a good workout I guess is one way of looking at it.

It's possible that a pair of robins hopping around on the snow doing the stop, feel for worm, and then attack dance, are "our" robins who come back year after year. I say this because they are a little demented, laid eggs in a tiny bluebird nest with big babies falling out until I knocked it down, subsequently building a really sloppy nest of their own with more babies falling out, and there are no worms in snow. So we will keep an eye on them.

old  miners cabin roof definitely took a hit this winter

Enjoying the quiet of the off season, and also trying to support local business. If you're in the area please pop into The Local Market in Gunnison. Selling Colorado products only: Grass fed beef, farm eggs, homemade bread,cheeses, sausages, honey, milk, etc. It opened in December and is owned by Kathleen Curry our ex-state representative. We've had some great informative conversations about grass fed beef (she and her husband own Tomichi Creek natural beef), and she will carry as much local product as she can fit in.

our spring is quite full

I am on the move again, travelling to Seattle Sunday. My sister and family, and my mother are there and her birthday is next week - perfect timing. I haven't been since August so really looking forward to it. Great city and good weather is predicted right now (small chance of rain yippee).

Wow, very late listing of books read. Here you go:
Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes - okay - to be honest no idea where I got her name
Introducing Agatha Raisin; Quiche of Death/The Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton -good, new British mystery series
Toast, the story of a boy's hunger by Nigel Slater - good, true,made into a movie,  he's well known food writer in Britain
See Delphi and Die by Lindsey Davis - always good, another in the Roman mystery series
Nightingale Woods by Stella Gibbons - good, written in 1930's so stylized, she wrote Cold Comfort Farm

Green stuff coming next!

Lots of chippies, ground squirrels scampering about (Mark's already feeding them)and coyotes howling and owls hooting in the night. No deer or elk yet- a couple more weeks I think. And bear will be waking up soon. It seems like a dream I saw mountain lion tracks in the woods while snowshoeing. Now where does it go in good weather?