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Snapshots from this evening:

Mike and Victoria, the folks I’m staying with, took me on a sunset horse ride. We strolled through corn and trotted down by the canal that’s been bringing water from Bear Lake over the mountains and down to these fields for over a century. Their dog, Magpie, a sweet little collie, followed us the whole way. We also saw deer laying in the corn, their ears just sticking up above the plants. Several families with two- and three-point bucks bounded away from us. The sun was setting behind the purple mountains and I couldn’t help but think how lucky I was to be in that place right at that moment.
When I drove out to the store this evening to get water for tomorrow’s drive, I rolled the windows down and enjoyed the sharp, tangy smell of alfalfa. A small hawk flew down and kept pace with my car, just outside the open window on the passenger side. It was so close I thought it might swoop right in.
Milking the goat was super fun and super hard. She made it easy for us, spreading her legs and keeping still, but there’s an art to it that I can tell takes time to master.
On the way back from the store, it had gotten dark-ish and I was worried about finding my way to their unlit street, but then I remembered what the mountains looked like from the stop sign and I thought, “Gosh, it’d be nice to live somewhere where you can navigate using the mountains.”

It’s lovely here and I’ll be sad to go in the morning.