Raising the Limit

J - Really Alloy?  Another walk-about?  Must keep you from getting bored!

The snow across this back yard is 3 feet deep, but it did not stop his dinner time journey.

B - I have an idea.  We'll make the fence look higher.  It is only about 18" tall right here.

So adding boards to the top of the buck fence and adding two rows of rope ... well, we can only hope.  But for good measure, Alloy has lost his rights to freedom at night.  We spent lots of energy and a good deal of time literally carving him a slot in his pen.

His feeder next to a 5 foot stack of hay.

His heated water tank in the corner, with a path carved around his very own 5 foot pile of snow.

Yep, the water tank is on the other side of the snow pile.  He has to walk in one side and out the other.  Maybe he should learn to appreciate the time he gets to spend in the larger pen with company!

This is where he gets to spend the night time for now.  He gets put in at dusk; out at dawn.  It's working for now.

While we are working?  He's napping in the sunshine.  He seems to have put on a touch of weight and hair.  Not a sign of cold or shivering from him since we brought him home.  We could not have hoped for as much.  Ranger and Jesse have taken to him; Washoe ... not so much, which is part of the reason he goes walk-about.

Bionic Cowgirl

What can I say? That's Beel for you!

A week ago or so, Nebalee, Asset and I went up to the Lodge to have a HellHat making party. As we were assembling our HellHats, Beel was playing with the discards. I knew he had to have something up his sleeve.

Can't you just see the wheels turning?

It took us about an hour to complete our project and when we were done, Asset and I both had HellHats that perfectly fit our personalities.

I happily posted about our project on Facebook as we went along, not thinking a thing about it. When I got home, I looked at the comments and found this:

Beel's "Hel-mutt" made from the crown of the hat and my discarded helmet visor.

(If you want the story behind the HellHats and the process, click over to Tales from the Trail.)