Our first fisherman of the new year joined us last week and the fishing was INCREDIBLE!!! Everyone was so excited & in awe of not only how many fish they were catching but how BIG they all were!! We are glad they kept their bellies full through the winter and are so active this spring.
We've been having some great moisture (lots of snow) the last few weeks, so everything is very damp. So Dean decided it would be a perfect day to burn our many wood/brush piles around the ranch. First up was the "big fire" up by the poop pile. Flames got so high, we could see the tip of the flames over the tops of the trees WHILE sitting at the desk in the office!!!! It was HUGE!!! But safe of course. :)
We still love ya Dean! :) Our friend John, is the photographer this time with his I-Phone. 
Karen and I had the pleasure of heading to South Park last week to feed horses. We weren't sure what we'd run into as the ranch got about 7 inches of snow, so we were a little nervous that South Park would be worse. Thankfully, they only had an inch at the most, but the snow that had already been there had drifted some from the wind. We were only a couple hundred yards from our gate to enter the pasture, when we hit a huge drift and got stuck in Dean's truck. Twenty minutes later, after much shoveling, the truck was free and we were ready to enter the pasture. However, there was one more drift standing in our way right in front of the gate. Karen stepped up to the plate to drive through this drift and you could tell by the roar of the engine, the spinning tires, and the determined look on Karen's face.....NOTHING was going to keep her from getting through that drift. "The look" clearly stated that we were not about to get stuck again. :) Karen plowed through that snow like you've never seen before in your life! She busted through and handled the truck and the snow like a champ! She later stated her "mad skills" came from the many years of dealing with the mud in Kansas from the dirt roads. :) It was too fun to see 
her "in action." Karen can do it all! 
We were graced this morning with the site of a lone coyote. It was just cruising out back behind the house, sniffing around in the snow looking for food I'm sure. Pepper of course alerted us all that there was something outside with her keen senses (Yes...even though she is getting up there in age, she can still hear a few things. Although we do believe she is very familiar with the ever-famous "selective hearing"). :) So, we made sure to keep her inside while the coyote roamed about. Enjoy the pictures. Karen is the famous photographer of course. :)
