Art News - Well, here's a custom kitty wooliture I just completed.  WOW.  Was she a challenge with her beautiful and very unique coloring!  I'm sending her off tomorrow to where she'll be a birthday gift.  I really hope I was able to capture her well enough.  She took me quite a while to work out.  Cats are always a challenge for me for some reason-domestic cats.  But, it's worth it to me to work through that and try to improve.  I really enjoyed making this sculpture.  I'll be working on a very feminine Boston Terrier wooliture next.

Ranch News - One more sheep to shear tomorrow, now that my husband will be here to help.  Little blind Raymie.  Then we are going to move our llamas Belle and Happy over to a shelter that has misters.  It's been quite hot lately.  That pen has a huge pine tree in the middle that offers some nice shade.

My son and I found a four foot snake this morning stretched across our driveway out in the pasture.  It had it's front half deep into a burrow.  It appeared to be digging.  It would pull out and bring a little pile of dirt with it and then go back in.  I researched as much as I could online.  It looks like it was a "juvenile" racer snake.  I can't imagine how huge it will be when it is totally grown.  They may be a bit fiesty if bothered extensively, but they are not venemous, they eat mice and possibly other snakes.  So, we left it alone.  It eventually slithered across the driveway and disappeared in another gopher hole.  We haven't seen too many gophers around lately . . . . Or mice, or other snakes, now that I think of it!

My stubborn little black and tan hound dog, Lilah went out this morning, went straight to my three year waiting for flower and ran over it, broke it and killed it.  It's like that was her whole mission for being out there.  I'm glad I got the picture I had.  Have to wait until next year. . . again.

We had a sad event and lost our German Shepherd, Skylore that we've had for nine years.  I found her in the Denver's Dumb Friend's League where she was recovering from surgery.  The surgery was to remove a bullet from her head.  She had been shot in the head and left in the mountains of Southern Colorado.  I thought she was dead and asked her to be brought out, just to see if she was ok.  She was.  She was just recovering from the surgery.  So her head was naked with big purple stitches in it.  She came home with me.  When I got married, she really took to my husband.  And she LOVED life out here on the farm.  She had a great day that day.  She waited until my son and husband got home from work.  Greeted them.  Then she had a heart attack and passed over to the Rainbow Bridge very quickly.  We figured she was at least 12, possibly 13 years old which is quite old for a GS, but she is missed here after being such a part of our lives.