Galena Wildfire, Coyotes, & Nedi

The report this morning on the Galena Wildfire has the size around 1000 acres, and some of the fire is near burned areas of last year's High Park Wildfire. There were also numerous small wildfires that were contained and extinguished throughout the state yesterday, including one inside the Boulder city limits. Today's humidity is much higher than yesterday's, but unless there is a huge 5-hour downpour of rain directly over the Galena Wildfire, the fire will have to be battled by traditional methods.

   Nedi apparently got poked in the eye by something yesterday - he was blinking it rapidly and had tears running down his face yesterday afternoon. I've washed his eye out with saline multiple times now, but I can't see anything sticking into, or out of, the eye itself. And I haven't been able to detect a scratch on the lens, either. He's keeping the eye open and using it, but it's continuing to tear, so I think it will be OK. If he shows any signs of discomfort or swelling, we'll be heading to the vet's office. Right now, he's curled up on the cat tree, watching the squirrels, while Lovey is snoring in my bed.

   It was 76 degrees here yesterday - a record high for March 15 in Boulder. And our Open Space Park Rangers shot and killed two coyotes this week, after they had chased and bitten a young boy walking on the Boulder Creek Path. The boy was with his father, but running ahead, and ran back to him when the coyotes began to chase him. He was next to his father when he was bitten. The two coyotes responsible for the attack were well-known to the Rangers, and had been watched closely, as they had shown no fear of humans recently. I am sorry they were killed, but they had become "nuisance wildlife" and were no longer behaving normally.