July 17, 2007 

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It is cloudier and cooler here today which is a nice break from these really hot days. It is good for the land too. It was getting too dry too quick and it was getting very dry in the woods, though it was great for the hay farmers. It ought to be a good hay year. We have not started to hay yet over at Mary's, and just in case we ordered 25 round bales from the guy we always buy our hay from, just in case. We can always sell it towards the end of the winter if we have a surplus.

Just now the sleddogs were barking insanely. I popped outside to see if the bear was back. I did see wildlife, but on a much smaller scale. It was a Snowshoe Hare in its summer coat of brown hopping up our driveway. I have seen this hare many times as it goes to the base of our hill, on the driveway up to the barns to lick the ground. I grabbed a handful of loose cow salt/minerals and tossed it down where it normally licks. It lives just in the bush on the other side of this fencepost and I have been watching it since spring. From the tracks in the snow in the wintertime, I know we must have hundreds of Snowshoe Hares here, but I do not often see them in 'person'. Although you cannot see it well, he just picked and is eating one of the flowers.