Sendepause

I have to put in a little "Sendepause"  (break in the broadcasting) for half a dozen reasons, all of them good; not to worry.

It did rain here, today, which was wonderful, the last rain having been experienced more than 6 months ago.  We can use more.


I will leave you with a pretty picture for now. 

It is the Sturgeon River which snakes through the Sturgeon County here.  The largest animal I've run into is a moose, the prickliest was a porcupine family.  The beaver I can see about on 50% of the evenings.  Coyotes are everywhere because of the nearby poultry farms.  Sometimes they howl in packs nearby.  I don't know if that's safe or not, but I've walked down there for 20 years.  Somebody once suggested, it should be safer with my border collie along.  Somehow, I could not imagine that.  She was such an easily scared dog.  When the coyotes howled she would press right in on me and start with a deep, gutteral growl, with her head held low.  It seemed kind of primeval.  Or she would sit back with the head up and howl straight into the air, like a wolf.