Sitting by the fire

Okay, I'm posting twice in one day.

There's a fire in the fireplace. It's been burning all day long. See, our propane pilot light is not lit, and therefore we don't have any heat in our heater. But we have this amazing fireplace that heats the entire house. So we have had the fire burning night and day. It puts out the toastiest heat, it just makes you want to curl up on the couch and hug a dog. Which I've been doing all day.

The show is going great, the actors fantastic. They know the show and are doing it so well. This means that I can be at home. When I'm directing, I have to be down in town, but when I'm not: I get to be HOME!! So, it's been a week but now here we are. Both dogs are so grateful to be up here. They are asleep on their respective beds. Uli is lounging across hers. She is on the Dillon Dog Bed of Honor. Dillon always slept in his favorite spot in the house, his dog bed (usually in some various state of having been chewed but loved) which always laid in front of the fireplace, nice and toasty. This is where he passed away last year, resting on his bed until his last moments. So this spot is the Dillon Dog Bed of Honor, and Uli has claimed it tonight. Devan is zonked out thoroughly on her bed on the other side of the room. She had a good day of crow chasing and sleeping and she is celebrating by snoring and dreaming of what she'll do tomorrow. I can tell this by the slight twitching of her paws as she dream-runs after her nemisis crows that taunt her from the power poles.

It's a great day today. Cold and crisp. The sky is cloudy and if it were colder, looks to me as if it would snow. The trees are now bare and winter is here. There are so many woodpeckers at the house lately. I think that perhaps they have lost their homes from the fires, and are congregating here on Iron Springs Ranch. They are beautiful with their bright red heads and their Woody namesake attitude. Going to fill the feeders tomorrow, so they have something to peck at. One must stay busy, even if you're a woodpecker.