This is what it looks like here in northern Colorado today. The grass and trees are greening up.

We don't want it to get too warm too fast because there is a record amount of snow in the high mountains and the runoff is expected to be record-breaking.

Mr. Traveltales is coming home on the 16th or so, but in the meantime, my friend who can get yarn wholesale is coming for a couple nights so I can get up a big yarn order, to last me a year, and we'll drink pomegranate margaritas and knit and laugh.



The fox has been around every afternoon. I have to be careful that he eats or carries away all his food so the bear doesn't get it. I was reading an article about why it doesn't work to try to make a pet of a fox. They said it's more realistic to explain that we don't make a pet of a fox, the fox makes a pet of us and we change our behavior to meet their expectations. Yup. That's the way it is. It's all by his rules.

I don't know if I told you there is another fox. I saw her in the yard, and thought it was my usual fox, but when she saw movement inside the house she fell over her feet in her rush to escape.

He has acted different since she came around. I know they get along, and am wondering if he is taking food to her. They mate in the fall and the babies are born in the spring, so maybe that's what is going on. The females are very territorial, so I hope she doesn't claim this area and drive him away. I sort of doubt he'd leave on her say-so, but what do I know.