Enchiladas and onion panade are on the menu for tonight; such fancy food for us. The panade recipe sounded totally seductive in the magazine, and we are primed to appreciate any sort of food. The day was productive--a triumph: the night drop pen is cleaned and re-bedded, to the delight of the remaining unlambed ewes, who appreciate a clean bed as much as we appreciate a shower and clean sheets; a difficult birth scene was resolved with a live, if too big, lamb, and first-time mama is as proud of her moose as if she'd done it unassisted; cows are home where we can keep an eye on them, including the one that calved ahead of our agenda; another mixing pen of ewes and their lambs have been moved to the old barn and lower corral, and their pen is cleaned, re-bedded, and now occupied by different ewes with younger lambs; tomato seeds and pepper seeds are planted in little peat pots and occupying the sun room space recently reserved for the Christmas tree. (We transferred the lights to an easel because we're not yet ready to say "goodbye" to Christmas lights.) And oh by the way, Western Art Week happens in Great Falls next week. This painting of mine, intended for the MT Watercolor Society display at Expo Park, is a scene from the Ovando country--country that I love despite the fact that it is painfully snowy every winter.
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