Five Acres with a View

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Not much snow yet, but bitterly cold: 3F when I fed horses.

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Our first year in Colorado, I was appalled when I realized that the sun sets at 3:30 in the afternoon during December.

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And yes, the sky really was that blue.

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We saw comparatively few elk while we were in Yellowstone, but lots of bison. However, Jack reports seeing twenty elk on the way to the store the other morning, and has the photos to prove it at  Suspicious and For this I travel hundreds of miles taken a day or so later. We see elk just often enough, when they travel over the ridge from the Air Force Academy, to be excited.  However, I am just as happy not to have bison as near neighbors.