Daily Archives: October 25, 2011

Fire is probably a bad word to use these days, especially since a lightning strike in September immolated one long, gorgeous stack of premium mountain meadow grass hay in the ranch stack yard.  All 340 tons of it.  We were away when that happened, somewhere in Iran is about as precise as I can be.  I was sitting with my headscarf on, trying to pretend I was comfortable in the autumn heat wearing a head covering more suitable to the winter months, when the news arrived by email.

Bernard in the windrows

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