The heat has been like a hammer the last several days…
Still, the evening’s have been soft and lovely
But what has been the best thing
Right out our back door
Covering our whole farm…
A PERFECT double Rainbow!
WOW!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
We finished up!
Nice green leafy, baled in the dew hay.
A nice feeling.
One field down, one more to go.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I am better. Well, let’s say I am somewhat better. The fungus in my nose is gone, the swelling in my nose is gone, but I now have a cough.
Somedays I don’t have a cough. Somedays I don’t have a sneeze. Somedays I don’t have ANYTHING!
It’s on those days Mom and I think YAY BEAGLIE IS WELL!
Then …. The cough comes back, or the sneeze and the cough come back, or just the sneeze.
So now I’m on allergy meds.
So far, THAT is working.
Anyway, Mom and I Thank you so much! Mom was really, really scared I had a tumor in my nose…which was a possibility. A very scary possibly…
BUT NO TUMOR!
YAY!
I can sniff and smell anything I want to now!
Anyway, we have to let the allergy meds work (please keep me in your prayers that the allergy medication does the trick).
I’m doing so much better,
I like to go with Mom to irrigate.
I never liked to go with mom to work in the hay so I don’t even ask to go then.
Besides Mom doesn’t really want me to walk about in the high pollen grasses right now.
SOOOOOO!
Here I am. Boomer Beaglie Brown doing ever so much better!
A little Black-Chinned Hummingbird kept flitting from wire to fence as I walked down the long, long farm lane
I found watching it a huge delight…like he was playing with me
Here I an here—see…then he would lift up and flit to the next section of the fence.
Sometimes my finger on the camera button is a tad too slow…what was a beautiful bird is now only tail feathers in the lens. 🙂
Who do I help the hawk for lunch or the unsuspecting dinner?
Sometimes I don’t really know what to do. So I turned away. I didn’t want to know how things turned out. That instant where something is one thing, then suddenly something else…I just don’t like knowing about it.
Birds are always awake, even before the sun comes up
(Looking at our farmhouse and farmyard from way over there across two fields)
Our world is so beautiful…full of songs in so many forms.
From my heart to your world,
Linda
I came, with a camera, stalking a wee little bird resting on a fence post top
The lift of wings, the second I was noticed
Then away, away….up into the tree where I couldn’t see it anymore.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
The corn is growing might nicely
Terry just finished cultivating all the many, many rows, giving the little baby corn a fighting chance.
One more field to plant—more than likely alfalfa or grass or a mix of the two.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Here it is!
That time of year
The FIRST cutting of alfalfa—soon to be hay!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We finished up hauling all the much-needed soil/dirt
Gradually, the new ditch bank and soon to be farm road started to take place
Blade work with the tractor and shovel work with … the SHOVELS!
Done!
And all the while—keeping the irrigation going. Terry is standing on the new road. Pretty nice!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I was out hunting early this morning with Mom…well, Mom wasn’t hunting,
Mom was checking the end of the field to see what rows of water didn’t come through. Dad was out IN the field checking to see how wet everything was—
when FREDDY FOX RAN BY…AS FAST HAS HE COULD GO!
Then Freddy stopped…looked at me…I about passed out.
He barked…Fox barks are really different — go here to hear one — which scared me worse.
Then I listened, he was barking for Boomer.
“MEOWWWWWWWWWWWW!” I screamed. “Boomer isn’t outside, Boomer is sleeping in the kitchen on his big soft fluffy bed.”
“Get Boomer and have him come out…it’s time we had an adventure.” Freddy said to me.
“Not right now, Freddy. Boomer has been sick and is resting. Maybe when he feels better.” I replied.
VARRRROOOOOOOOOOOM
Freddy and I heard one of the four-wheelers startup.
Then we heard the other four-wheeler startup.
“GOTTA RUN! See Ya Around.” Freddy yelled as he took off toward the upper end.
That works for me I murmured, turning around
I flopped down and gave myself a very nice dust bath.
Then I jumped up and looked around.
I’m sure glad that fox is gone!
Off I went heading into the field to see about my breakfast!
Mindy, Min-Min Kit-Kat Brown
I must announce—-BOOMER IS TRULY BETTER!!! YAY! He slept well, he is breathing much, much better. His nose is the same equal size on both sides and he LOVES HIS FOOD!
Then for the very first time in a very long time, he wanted to GO irrigate!
The wind was terribly strong, but he still wanted me to put him up on the four-wheeler—so, of course, I couldn’t turn him down. 🙂
Then on my FaceBook page, another wonderous gift appeared
“I know you love rainbows.” Cheri Schwartz-Harder wrote. “I had to send you this one from my backyard yesterday.
We had an epic 1 1/2 inches of rain in just a few hours and a thunderstorm that was awesome. Then right before sunset, looking East, this appeared. ❤️”
There is was a flaming magical rainbow over their ranch— filling the whole sky!
Music in the form of a billion little drops of light!
Thank you, ever so much, each and every one of you for caring and being there.
My heart is full.
Your friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 