Summer is in full swing around here. Music festivals, rodeo, bike races, the wildflower festival, all set to start in the blink of an eye. And lets not forget the famous, or infamous, goofy 4th of July Crested Butte parade. Not to be missed.
The sheep are here, not these particular ones (these are someone's pets down Ohio Creek) the ones I'm talking about are the hundreds of sheep that our property owner neighbor puts in every June complete with sheepherding dog. This is their answer to receiving an ag exemption, ours is of course the 180 or so cattle who graze here all summer. Those sheep are quite loud bleating away, and that's 2 miles away from us, much more of a nuisance for our neighbors on that side of Star Mt. Well, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Perfect segway to the cattle. They are here, roaming all over Star Mt. We have just replaced our lower driveway gates with, get ready, a cattle guard. Perfect timing. I don't think I could have predicted this would be an exciting purchase in my lifetime but it is. Our gates were terrible, solar powered and barely worked. So, the cattle, 15 or so, showed up on the first night of installation to check it out. They stood there for an hour, I'm not kidding, until I went out and whoop, whooped them on down the road. Not the brightest...
Grouse are back out after a couple of weeks hidden with their nests. I've seen two teeny babies out wandering - not recommended. I've also seen coyote here and there.
Had to include Mark's photo of a bull moose as he drove over Cottonwood Pass. Thirty feet away and could have cared less that he was there. Great photo!
So excited, Heather and Jay come tomorrow and Tiffany, Chris, and the girls come Friday. We have a pile of people coming Friday night for dinner, and further events will just continue as Krissy's wedding is finally happening this weekend in CB. People coming from every direction. Let the fun commence!
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