We're in winter mode around here. Brandon has been doing his annual deer & elk classification flights and as is par for the course, winter weather has been slowing his progress. There have been some nice days though- the Basin is quite photogenic when it's calm and sunny. Prompted by his pilot, he took a unique photo of the West Elk's reflecting off of Blue Mesa Reservoir, which we thought was worth sharing.

When it's not too cold we try to get Delaney out of the house. She got her first pair of sunglasses recently and seems to enjoy them. Her and Grandma Annie dog get along good both in and out of the wagon. Last week Delaney had her most recent doctor's appointment, and officially weighed 13 lbs, 10 oz and is now 27 inches long. Our doctor gave us the green light to feed her meat and eggs so Delaney is now officially an omnivore, recently enjoying both elk hamburger and Sockeye salmon. Eggs weren't of much interest to her so we'll have to keep working on that.

Elk were marauding at our northern horse pasture so we had to move our horses into town. It's nice to be able to see them more often and Meredith enjoys coming to plow snow and load hay with the tractor. It gives us a good excuse to walk to the office from our house and stretch our legs. Delaney seems to always be asleep when we get there but she'll be a cowgirl soon enough.