Monday: The Pleasant Valley Report

I’m happy to say that Larimer County, Colorado saw no new wildfires break out this weekend. A bit breezy yesterday (Sunday), but that didn’t keep me from doing yard work. Although much is still brown and bleak, the flowering trees are budding, grass is greening up in patches, and the final bird in the “Spring Has Arrived” Trifecta appeared Friday—the white throated swift! (Grackles, then turkey vultures, and the swifts verify for me that spring has indeed arrived. Despite other weather evidence to the contrary).

My chickens kicked the dogs off their bed