Just a little note. It’s tick season, and just about every trip, Barb, Grady, or I are finding those annoying bugs on us. I know everybody has different feelings about how to deal with them. I’m not one who worries about the chemicals like some do. So I just use a brand like Front Line, and it seems to keep them off the dogs. Barb and I usually find one on us, but we have gotten used to the creepy feeling.
Also, the snakes are getting out. I have only seen one on my jaunts so far this Spring, but soon they’ll be moving further away from the dens. It seems to me that when the temperature reaches 75 degrees fairly consistently, they start moving further away from the dens and stay away. Most of the snakes are still coming out on the warmer side of the rocks and warming up. Today I saw two groups of three cuddling together in the warmth. Usually, when they are about to move out and about, I see wads of ten or more sunning together, and soon after that, they are gone to places I hope I’m not. And no, I don’t take my dogs when I visit the dens.
The Reigning Chukar Champions 