The National Weather Service had forecast a low for us last night of 21 degrees, but I could tell when I was putting the dogs up at 9:30 p.m. that we would get colder than that. Sure enough, when we got up this morning it was 13.6 degrees (-10.2 C). The photo above is what Widget's House looked like at dawn, and here is Beauty's Barn:
By the time I photographed our wireless weather station, it had warmed up .2 degrees to 13.8. Not much, but going in the right direction!
Once morning chores were done, we had our photo shoot for the winter newsletter — this for the photo of Alayne and me that accompanies the "ranch letter" on page 2 of each issue. If it seems a bit early to be working on it — our fall issue just went in the mail a couple of weeks ago, miraculously timed to arrive just as the stock market plunged — our winter issue actually goes to print the first week of November, so I've already started on it. Besides, with a morning this cold, it seemed appropriate to be taking photos for the winter edition! (Note: The fall issue is also posted as a PDF on our main Web site home page.)
First I needed to "frame" the shot I wanted for our employee Cindy, who was going to be taking the photo of us. This was one of the early test shots:
Yes, that's Margaret in the background, wanting to be in the photo along with Bailey. We finally had to move Margaret and her sisters down to the welcome center so we could have a goat-free photo. Once the shot was framed and goats removed from the vicinity, Cindy fired away with the camera, and here was the final photo we selected:
By noon the three goat girls had submitted a petition, signed with little hoof prints, demanding to be in the spring issue of the newsletter. We'll see.
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