Connie in Ouray

 It's that time of year!  The upper pond is lower than I've ever seen it, as compared to last year, when it was so very high.  I suppose that's the difference between 15 feet of snow melt and 10 feet.  As the ice started melting, we began to see fish swimming around - yay! - and no floaters so far.   Aaron bought a 50-pound bag of fish food before I could, and I've started feeding the fish almost every day.  The feeding frenzy has begun, and it's worth seeing!  Unfortunately, for me, I've been seeing mudbugs, or crawdads, or whatever you want to call them.  I think they're gross, and I'm constantly stepping on their carcasses on the dam road after foxes or coyotes or whatever have feasted.   Today, I put in blue dye packets to keep the algae down, and I also threw in bacteria packets.  Both of these are so interesting, because as soon as they hit the water, the outer packet starts dissolving.  Since there is no water going over the spillway, the bacteria

 Every spring, my mother would say this ditty:  Spring has sprung, the grass has ris, I wonder where the flowers is.  Considering we're a bunch of grammar freaks, it still amazes me she could say this. Anyway...I saw some fish swimming in the pond a few days ago and no dead ones so far!  The ice is melting on the pond quickly, but the level is down about a foot.  Since we've only had 10 feet of snow up here on MFL, I'm curious what our summer is going to look like. Yesterday, I glanced out our kitchen window and saw Dempsey racing up the hill to the trail.  Out of the woods by the sheds, here came a coyote followed closely by Dempsey.  They then went up the trail again, down by the sheds, between 20 and 22, past the pond, and down the road.  What?!!  When Mike got home, I asked him if he thought I was nuts or if it was possibly a coyote.  He thought probably a coyote.  This morning, before I got up, there were five turkeys down in our aspen grove.  I haven't seen any be