28th of Nov - update

This was Hope's foot on Nov 18th when I brought her in the house. There is little to do with a foot injury. I can claim no success as of yet with this. I don't know if it is a bruise, nothing is out of alignment, or visibly wrong.

I brought her in the house so that I don't have to worry about the temperature, and she can have someplace clean to lie down on. She does quite well, and has settled into this easy living quite well. She never bates, and other than changing the tarp under her is no problem.

The foot is still swollen, although I have used meds to reduce the swelling mixed with antibiotics along with DMSO to help the body absorb the medications. Nothing left to do but wait, but our season is over for at least this year. She just tried too hard. That of course is what defines a "great Hawk", but is hard on the body. Hopefully she will be able to hunt next year. Time will tell.

On the way to get the mail at the Jct. today, I picked up a nice tarp that had blown off some "pilgrim's" PU heading South. I get a lot of stuff that way. So far this year I have rescued two new life preservers, Sun shades, a steel wheel barrow and turned down countless other little goodies.

We are heading into winter and hopefully we will get some moisture this year. Every thing is dried up, even Mann Lake. Connie and I made a trip up through the Sheepsheads range and the horses are everywhere sucking up every bit of the water that they can. We counted about 200 horses and I am told that is only a small portion of the horses that are there. As far as I know there are only three water sources up there.

Hopefully it will put some snow on the Mountains this winter.

I'm trying to get into the Christmas spirit this year so I decorated my "Hairless Juniparie
 (Hune a parie ) tree" for the first time. Karen would never let me take it down, so Connie suggested that I decorate it. Now I am the only one in the neighbor hood with a decorated Christmas tree.