Pipi’s Pasture: Pre-fall is in the air
Pipi's Pasture
It’s still August, but the past couple of nights have been cool enough to remind us that the fall season is just around the corner. My son Jamie, whose family lives in Alaska, reports that the leaves around there appear to be changing color just a bit — not necessarily early but he says that it just shows how quickly the summer has passed.
I’ve decided that it’s pre-fall here at Pipi’s Pasture.
*Haying season has ended at most area ranches, and trucks pulling trailers loaded with bales drive both directions past Pipi’s Pasture.
*Driving past ranches, one can see round and rectangular bales of every size piled in hay yards..
*Corrals are being cleaned up and manure piled up, ready to be hauled out and spread somewhere.
*Ranchers are “buttoning up” stack yards, a job that has to be done before cattle can be gathered and turned onto hay meadows.
*Cattle are being moved to other pastures, to better feed, the last moves before being gathered, and checking the water supply/hauling water goes on.
*Residents around the county are busy pulling their hoses around, trying to keep their lawns green.
*Garden and orchard produce is being harvested, and vendors in Craig have fruits and vegetables for sale.
*Chokecherries are ripe on a few trees around Pipi’s Pasture, and the birds are picking them.
*Birds are on the move; hummingbirds have come down from the high country and are letting me know that they’re hungry, and a bluebird stopped in the other day to catch some bugs in the lawn, the first bluebird that I’ve seen here in years.
*Residents are on the watch for bears, mountain lions,and rattlesnakes; a bear was reported in this neighborhood recently.
*The Moffat County Fair is over for another year, and kids are cleaning out their show boxes and thinking about their projects for next year.
*School has started already, and the school bus is an everyday sight.
*Outfitters are preparing for hunting season.
*The line-up of fall shows is being previewed on television, and the football season is about to start.
*Appointments are being set up to check furnaces for the winter, and propane tanks are being filled.
It’s pre-fall for sure, and September is only a few weeks away.

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