Night Calving

Sitting with a hot cup of tea after checking cows out in the barn, feels great on a winter's night at 2 in the morning here in Montana. It gets pretty cold and I'm the "night hawk"... which means that I go out multi times during the night checking cows who may be getting ready to have a baby calf. My cowboy husband and I calve out about 150 cows here in the Clark's Fork Valley, south of Bridger (named after the mountain man Jim Bridger). Thinking about and planning for the OCTA film adventure in June and July, knowing it will be hot out on the prairie, while its -2 below here, buzzes my brain! Candy and I have a ba-zillion things to get organized and gathered up before we head out for this project. My pup "Surrey" is snuggled up at my feet on top my fuzzy slippers.... she is my black 'n white wagon buddy when I drive my buckboard. I think she's dreaming of this summer's fun..... 24 teenagers on a wagon train headed to Oregon.... must be why she's twitching!!

My dining room is already getting a bit of "prop" stuff piled and the sticky notes are starting to multiply along the sides of my computer screen (I think they grow when I’m not looking) of things I have to do, find or make for the “Dreamers.” The journals I’m making have been fun and I hope the kids will be able to make “entries” while they live this wagon train adventure.
Well, better bundle up & go check cows.................. happy trails. Quackgrass Sally