Star Date: 12160811:30... Day 2 with no water... Woke to find emails from the main house... they too have no water this morn. Thank goodness I was able to get a shower in over there last night... that guaranteed me one good nights sleep anyway... (I have to shower before bed-E-bye, or else I don't sleep well at all ;-) Denise's 2nd email had expressed concern for the animals, i.e. water, heat, etc... she even left the geese locked up because... of some reason I forget now. So I went over to the barn to check on things myself. I grabbed some 5 gal buckets and threw them in the Jeep because I figured I could go over to the pond and at least get water for my toilet... Mans got to maintain some conveniences. I bumped into Wayne... he was going to check on the water pump, but I knew it'd be a waste of time... I'd already turned up the little heater in the pump house yesterday... I'm starting to understand how some things get done in real rural areas... my guess is that the water lines aren't below the frost line... But mean while I asked him if he thought the river water running into the pond was good enough for the animals and he concurred on what I thought. Soooo...
Here I am... on my first run of I think, 6-7 total... scooping buckets of river water and ferrying them back over to the barn. While I was up there I took a walk around the pond to see if there were any signs of Wally the beaver, or any other tracks for that matter. But there were none... my boots were the first to break snow...
In the foreground is Wally's entrance... clearly unused for at least the past 3 days, so I guessing he's vacationing else where this winter. Funny thing though... in the end, there were no other tracks any where near the pond. That seemed strange, but what do I know.... 'Sheeet... City Boy'
On the far end where Wally 'used' to hang, is farthest away from the feeding river, so it really got frozen over..... over there. I took a subtle chance and checked out the thickness of the ice. It looked to be at least 3-4 inches thick... strong enough to hold me anyway. So I shuffled around a little... about 12-15 feet out. The bottom around that point was only 3-4 feet deep... but you know... I wasn't going to be too stupid about it... It'd still be very cold and... s__t happens in the wild.
This was an awesome sight... bubbles frozen into the ice... in stages it seems. Some of them are stacked 3-4 high... pretty wild. Most of the ice around there was incredibly clear... but here some other phenomena was happening...
And here is the final resting place for all those buckets of water. Denise & I pulled this big tub that was in the other 'room' to replace the little one which was freezing over every couple of hours. She had gone to the feed store and bought 'coats' for the goats, one for Miracle and some water heaters to stop the ice from forming in the first place. 
The goats with their coats...
And Miracle with hers... She wasn't too thrilled initially to put it on... Have to see how long it lasts...
And after some online investigation... I wanted to compare coyote tracks with cougar tracks. In yesterday's post I had a pic of a print from tracks that Denise had spotted, circling the pasture. This pic is of a coyote... notice that it's a little 'pointier' versus the pic below which is a cougar print... and you can see how it is 'rounder' overall... and bigger of course. The pic below shows it to be 4 inches long... the print from yesterday is only about 2 inches. I think it's probably a coyote... but you can decide.
So in the end... it was still a good day. And even though I was working on some 'monkey chatter'... I stopped every once in a while to look around, and take a 'different inventory'... or as Abraham would say... 'tell a different story'. After all, I'm healthy, I'm getting exercise & fresh air, the sun's shining, the view is beautiful and I'm not plugged into a 9-5. I did my best to turn negative thoughts into positive affirmations... to look at things as I want them to be, instead of focusing on what they're not. These were the steps I took today towards creating my reality. They say..... To change something... you have to change it on the inside first, before it can manifest itself on the outside. I like that one...
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