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My name is Linda Brown. I live on a farm on the western slope of Colorado, in the high mountain desert. I’ve lived here all my life, hailing back four generations on my father’s side. Today I blog about our farm, the everyday activities that keep the farm going. I also write about my thoughts and dreams and goals. On Friday’s I always write about TLC Cai-Cai. Our sweet kitty who helps keep the farm safe. And Boo Berry Betty, a breeder dog learning to be a Farm Dog! The lovely thing about blogging it opens the world up for all of us to reach out and meet people from many different cultures and different ways of life. You can find me every day (but Saturday) at https://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com/ Your Friend on a Western Colorado Farm, Linda Brown

From Kate, An Amazingly Different Rainbow— Wednesday, May 3, 2023

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Hello there!

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I saw this when I was walking doggo home from our walk this morning. It was a fine drizzle in the air, the sun was shining behind me, and right at the top of the hill, you could see this long bar of rainbow colours. It wasn’t really a rainBOW, it was more a straight line sitting down on the horizon. The violet was right down on the tops of the trees. It lasted just a few minutes and wasn’t very bright, but it was so deep and so unusual, I thought you might like it for your collection.
Kate
I do, Kate!   Thank you ever so much!
I am the luckiest person — I am gifted rainbows from everywhere and all around the world!

From my heart to your heart,
Linda

Happy Birthday, Happy Happy Birthday—Tuesday, May 2, 2023

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79 years and still driving fast cars

Running tractors

Placing in Tractor Pulls

Chasing water

Chasing a cow or two (sometimes a horse or mule)

Happy Birthday to you!

From my world to your heart,

Linda

Looking for Hearts — Monday, May 1, 2023

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I hold my eyes to the ground trying to move them in harmony with the soil and the rocks, and the bits of weeds and stuff

Searching with a wee prayer in my heart:  “If you are there little heart, show yourself to me. Please I beseech you!”

Then I calm my clamoring mind and wait for a heart to appear.

Sometimes it does —like this one last year.

Sometimes there is nothing.

Which is fine.  If I am to find a heart, and the heart is ready to be found.

It will appear.  🙂

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

 

 

 

For a Very Short Bit of Time, Farming Stopped —- Sunday, April 30, 2023

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And we went off to have a ‘fun day’ with other tractor lovers!

It was a Saturday of delightful, different fun!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Best Friends for Ever More — Friday, April 28, 2023

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We are best of friends

We like to do ‘stuff’ together.

I like to play—run and scare Boo

After TLC jumps on me we sorta run around and chase each other

I never see TLC coming

He is very good at scaring me

I’m really good at chasing TLC 🙂

I can run faster than Boo Berry 🙂

And Boo Berry is very focused on Mom —just say’n

Still, we do have lots of fun together.

Best Friends FOREVER!
TLC and Boo Berry

 

 

 

Look, MOM! —- Thursday, April 27, 2023

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I’m standing by the big scary machine!

“Come here, Boo Berry!  Dad is going to go mark out one of the alfalfa fields!  Hurry! RUN!”

“Good Girl!” Mom reached down and petted me.

Off we went for a little walk-about.

Just Mom and Me!

Boo Berry Betty Brown ( 4 B’s 🙂  )

I’m a Follower of the Paleo Diet—Just Say’n, Tuesday, April 26, 2023

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Someone said I need to learn to be a vegetarian.

You got to be kidding!

TLC Cai-Cai

 

Magic for One is Not Always Magic for Someone Else — Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Hummmm

OH! The chickens have been out here!

“BOO BERRY BETTY! STOP EATING CHICKEN POOP”!!! Mom screamed at me.

(Well, Mom, you’ve been saying you think it’s neat I’m learning how to be a dog.” Heee HEE, chuckle, snort!)

Boo Berry

New Birth — Albeit a Slow One—-Monday, April 24, 2023

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Slowly, slowly we are greening up. We go from a couple of warm days then back to very cold, spitting snow, wind-blowing days.  Then it’s a repeat.

I guess that really is what Spring is about.  Warm up too hard and fast we will have floods and the drought will come back.

So slowly, slowly forward we go.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

As Men Believe—, Sunday, April 23, 2023

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Although, it is cold and stormy. With ice on the running rows of water

There are such beautiful signs of early Spring (a wooly bear caterpillar)

Work continues, in wind, the mists of rain and sleet,

It’s a beautiful world of ours.  We really can’t ask for more.

“As men believe so is their world.” from the Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradly  

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda