Rolling Dog Farm Blog

I didn’t have any animal-related items to post this evening, so I thought I’d show you a couple of photos I took late this afternoon as the sun was going down.  This first photo is the view facing northeast from the ranch.  The gate in the foreground leads to one 10-acre pasture and another 30-acre pasture beyond.  In the distance are the peaks of the Scapegoat Wilderness Area, part of the enormous Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. 

The second photo shows the curtain of ice and snow sliding off the roof of Scout’s Barn.  See that door in the middle of the wall, behind the mound of snow?  The door opens onto an interior shed for horses.  Our first few winters here we had to dig that door open all the time … sometimes daily, depending on storms.  Then we got smart and asked one of our wonderful volunteers, Wayne S. from Seattle, to take down the south wall to the shed (it’s around the other corner).  Now the horses have free access to the shed, snow is not an issue, and that curtain of snow and ice can slide down all it wants! 

This shed is used by three of our disabled horses … Kiowa, Copper Kid and Cactus Jack.  (Who comes up with these names?  This crew sounds like an outlaw gang from the 1880’s!)  The horses were busy eating their evening hay off to the left in the corral while I was taking the photos.

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