Terry and Linda
Fuzzy and Boomer
Sam and Monkey
And the chickens
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The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday —Day Care
Fuzzy and I have started a Day Care. Well, really I have. Not by choice! But by necessity! We had to figure out what to do with these little cousins that are spending ten days and ten nights with us!
What a job!
These are HOUSE DOGS!!!!
(This is Bella)
I guess from their size you can see why.
(This is Zooker)
Fuzzy told Mom, “NO WAY! I’ll back up Boomer, if he gets in trouble, but other than that I just sit in my dog house or go on walks with all of you and watch what happens.”
But I love Mom, so I said I would.
(Zooker had to have a belly band…the boy dog thing -you understand)
It hasn’t been so bad—Zooker sleeps with me, when I’m in the house, and when they are outside Zookie goes wherever I go.
So does Bells, BUT
Bella….now Bella is a whole other story…Bella has to be on a leash because…BECAUSE SHE RUNS OFF!
Boy can she run fast!!!
Took Mom 30 minutes to catch her one day….Bella would run a short ways, stop, wait for Mom to get there, run off really fast…Mom was NOT a happy camper when Bella finally LET Mom catch her.
So now Bella lives on a long rope when she is outside.
We go for lots and lots of walks, because Bella is so HIGH ENERGY…makes even me tired. Bella seems to always be in motion.
When she crashes she likes to crash on Mom.
When Zooker crashes he likes to lay on Dad if he can’t lay on me.
Fuzzy,
Sam the cat, and
Monkey the cat, all think I’m messed up. But, I love Mom and Dad and so I head up the Day Care for teeny bitty little house dogs! (While Fuzzy guards the place)
Mom is outside all the time now. The rule is—if Mom is outside we ALL have to be outside, even MONKEY…tee hee. (Who never wants to be outside.)
“Fresh air is good for you,” Mom says as she brings Monkey out the door with her.
Mom has also moved Fuzz and me outside at night.
Because of Freddy the Fox!
Freddy is getting way to close to the hen house. Yes, the hens are locked up at night, and they have a top on their pen, but Foxes are very clever.
Now Fuzzy and I have another job….keep the fox out of the yard!
We take this very seriously! It’s a job Fuzzy says he likes and what he was born for…he says I can be a babysitter if I want, but HE is a GUARD Dog and is going to stay that way.
Mom says…4.5 more days to go….Bella and Zookie say: “But we really like it HERE!”
I tell them they will be really happy to see their Dad again and do all the stuff they get to do with their Dad.
Zookie looks at me with tender love in his eyes and then sighs a great deal and tells me he WILL be glad when Dad gets home.
Bella? Well, Bella says she will enjoy having Dad back, but being here has
BEEN A BLAST!!!
I guess I run and pretty good Day Care.
Boomer
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Terry is leveling the fields. He will plant only two fields this year. These two fields with the alfalfa field will be our crops.
The Uncompahgre Valley Water Users have cut the amount from 60% to 50% of your allotment. (Although, we will still have to pay for the 100% allotted to our farm–as does everyone else who farms. Doesn’t seem right to me, but that is what it is).
If–-IF — there is more water (which we all doubt) by the end of May, he will plant, possibly, some pinto beans. We just have to wait and see.
We would like to plant more alfalfa, depending on the water, maybe we will and maybe we won’t.
I guess, Dear Readers, you are in just as much of a quandary as we are. As my Mother used to say: “Time will tell.”
And so it shall.
Thank you for all of your magic thoughts and your concern…we are moving forward in faith and hope and with a little luck we will make it to harvest!
Linda
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
This is what we had yesterday!
Lovely! I enjoyed every minute of it….I worked in the yard for four hours yesterday, it was so nice. 47*.
Terry finished up the ground work on the fields he is going to plant…next he will level the fields, then fertilize, mark out and we are ready for to turn on the water. They are still saying they will turn it on April 1st. It takes a full week for the water to get to us, but when it does get here we will be ready! 🙂
The temps dropped to 15* last night, a huge warm-up from the night before! It is predicted to get to 62* today with a low of 23*.
Unless something changes (where the weather is concerned it just might) we are on our way to settled weather!
Linda
Monday, March 25, 2013
The cold front is still here, but gradually moving on. By this coming weekend we should have somewhat warmer weather.
Yesterday morning we were 2 above Zero, this morning we were 5 above Zero…just a little bit warmer, but I’ll take it.
The day will warm up better than yesterday, we should see warmth around 47* this afternoon. Gradually, gradually, we are heading back toward spring.
Just as Terry and I were going to head off to upper end our son-in-law showed up with half-a-load of firewood for us. What a cool gift!
The hope is this will last until May…which by that time (WE THINK) it will be warm enough spring is really here!
I can remember my Mother saying that anytime we have an early Easter (an Easter in March) the weather is always bad. That you can’t have winter end until Easter comes. Even if she isn’t right, so far this year is seems to be so.
Have a good Monday everyone!
Linda
Sunday, March 24, 2013….March Leaves Like a Lion
We were up at 2:30 on Saturday morning to take Evan to the airport to go see Joylene in Canada.
Everything went really good for him until he got to Denver …then he was grounded until 8 that evening…
Snow storm…big one…that is already on it’s way to the rest of the country.
Terry’s sister and her husband live in Greeley and sent us over a photo of just what the snow looked like there…18″.
It didn’t snow here, but we did have the wind…frigid, face freezing wind and lots of it– 40 m.p.h. gusts with 25 m.p.h. sustained winds.
Today we are frozen…more like January and February instead of late March. I guess March is leaving like a lion…not long now until April.
I’m looking forward to April. This is a little robin, poor things they really look cold this morning.
Our wood is down to four logs so this afternoon we are heading to the upper end to cut wood from the downed trees, this time last year we were not worrying about heat except in the early morning.
Each year is decidedly different one never really knows what will happen.
I saw a headline on the internet saying this the winter that doesn’t leave.
Fits!
Linda
The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday —Mom’s Shed
Since Dad is going to shrink the corrals and then expand the hay stack yard Dad decided the old granary had to either be torn down or moved.
Early yesterday morning…by first light…we all trouped out to the back of the farm yard to look at what Dad is interested in doing.
We all looked into the granary and then looked around the granary…Fuzzy and I were a little concerned because this is where our two ground squirrels like to live, Under the Granary.
Sam the cat went with us also. He crawled here and there all over the corrals and in the granary.
Boomer and I just went in and sniffed around and looked at all the cool stuff Mom and Dad had stored in there.
Back in the house we all ate breakfast and I heard Mom say…Let’s Move it!
So right after breakfast we all trouped back out to see where to move it too!
Mom says she wants it some place where she can get to it and work on the repairs.
So we all walked down the feed bunk road to the end of the corrals to look things over. Then we went into the corrals and over to the new shed to see if it would fit there, then we walked back to the end of the corrals.
Mom said she really like it at the end of the corrals…Dad looked and looked and then agreed.
Now the fun part started.
First the old corrals had to be removed, and then part of the old feed bunks, and then Dad went and got the tractor.
This was really exciting!
Boomer and were told to get out of the way a couple of times because we were really interested in being part of this whole process!
After we got it there Mom pronounced, “Perfect!”
It was a good morning’s work.
Then Mom went back in to fix lunch and Boomer and I decided it was a good time to take a nap!
Fuzzy
Spring Work–Water News
So far the water news is still bad…but it hasn’t gotten worse…which is good.
60% of of the farm ground is all that is going to be planted this year, leaving 40% to lay. There will be less alfalfa hay (to get hay started it takes lots of water, once started you don’t have to water as much, maybe once a month, but in the beginning…) less onions and no very early Olathe and Mountain Sweet Sweet corn…there will be mid-summer sweet corn… hopefully. All other crops have been reduced radically…possibly pinto beans will be planted everyone is waiting to see. Pinto beans are planted much later in the spring.
This lack of water effects everyone….letters have been sent out to those that live in sub-divisions, or in the town/city proper….if you water with Uncompahgre Valley Water you will NOT have access to the water…there just isn’t any extra. (In this case) Farms have the priority to the water, and only farms. If you wish to water your carefully crafted lawn and yards you will not be able to use the ditches, if caught doing so you will be fined. I’m sure if these people wish to use their city water they will be able too, at this point potable water is not being rationed…
Then there are those who make their living OFF the farmers…their livelihood is now cut by 40%—just like the farmers.
Sure is a sad mess!
BUT we still have 60%, which is better than less than that so there is hope!
Terry finished up rolling the plowed ground.
Next he will fertilize, disk that in, and then level the fields, after that he will mark out the rows in preparation for the water to be turned on.
Then we wait….once the water is on we are tied to the land until the water is turned off. Irrigation is a constant thing (but is you really want to know a secret—I super enjoy irrigating… I love the smell and the feel and the whole experience.)
So no matter what the farm year is proceeding and so will we!
I am a tad better today, but still not up to going to the Museum for my morning of extreme fun, maybe next week. ( I say that in all seriousness, for I do so enjoy my time there.)
Thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts and well wishes!
Linda
Smoke Season
The whole problem with spring!
Today I’m sick. Too much smoke yesterday. So I spent last night with an asthma attack and hay fever…today it feels more like a cold. Sure am tired of the long drawn out ‘not feeling good’ time.
Anyway, things should get better as a cold front is moving in late Wednesday night (I saw a sun dog this morning) complete with high winds and even rain turning over to snow.
The storm is supposed to move on out by Friday so at least the air quality here will improve!
Linda
A Project With One of My Grandchildren
A man brought in two huge buckets of of fossils, Indian artifacts and just plain interesting things to the museum. I asked Jim if I could could bring the buckets home to catalog them, instead of doing them at the museum. He said, “Sure!”
So I asked my little paleontologist/anthropologist/rock hound granddaughter to come up and help me with the project. She was more than ready…
We have several boxes of all sorts of really neat stuff…even petrified dinosaur poo…(that was her favorite) and some fossilized eggs, which were my favorite.
Many, many, many fossils and some really cool Indian things.
We were able to get it all finished and completed so I can take it back to the museum on Wednesday.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 