the ranch i’m working on is even more beautiful than i could have imagined. it’s nestled in a beautiful valley lined with aspens, to the east there is music mountain and to the west there’s stag mountain. today i fed ducks, rabbits, chickens and horses. i lined a section of the stream that flows through the ranch with rocks and i used a log peeler to make sections of fence that i’ll put up monday. after work, i hiked up towards stag mountain and caught an amazing view of the continental divide and scared up some deer, on the way down i collected bunches of sage that i hung in the window of my cabin, smells wonderful. everything is winding down for the day so i am going to settle in and wait for the moon to come back out.

after the last in a seemingly endless string of weird and not so wonderful dreams, i forced myself out of bed half awake and sat silently on the the back porch watching the sun rise over a wall of blue clouds, happy for real life.