We Arrived In
Montana (email to friends)We got here on Wednesday
afternoon (May 20) after 4 fun days on the road with overnights
in Pennsylvania, Illinois on the Mississippi, Iowa on the
Missouri, and eastern Montana. The horses are fine; Bandit
walked up to me the moment he saw me and Kalif tried to get to
me, but the others wouldn’t let him. He is still on the bottom
of the hierarchy.
We had our first diner with our friends and neighbors in
Woodworth Meadow. Not much has changed. The big news is that a
pair of mountain lions has developed a taste for livestock, and
they have been stealing chickens and a couple of cats in the
Meadow. Needless to say, everyone is ticked off about it. We
have permission to shoot them from the game warden. Rob set his
hounds on them, but then the coyotes went after the hounds, so
he had to call them back. Now everyone has a loaded rifle
sitting ready waiting for a shot. Different than life in
Manhattan!
Liz (aka “Agent B.”) had asked for a “challenge meat” this
summer; it may well turn out to be mountain lion.
We brought the horses home yesterday. They were very happy to
be home again and get their first taste of fresh grass this
year. We went on our first ride into the Game Range; it was
Heaven !!
It rained today, much to everyone’s delight. Yesterday we had
thunderstorms and the electricity went out, not unusual. We just
fed the horses; now I have to go and clean the tumbleweeds out
of the creek.
