Spring work has begun….
Terry has been disking the corn stalks.
I loved these photos of the spring buds and the spring work.
Still cold here, but warming up, it only got down to 20* last night.
Linda
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Sunday’s can be long, long, long..so we have taken to doing something as a family…
after many different things
we settled on bowling
We don’t try to out-do each other —that is how Linkin and I think, anyway…but the others sure get competitive 🙂
Afterwards they all come to our house for supper. Sure is a fun afternoon!
Linda
Sunday, March 10, 2013
The big nasty cold storm blew itself away last night and left us with a sunny (:)) day. The dogs went out as soon as the sun came up…they were ready.
Looking around I saw green
Everywhere
Little bits starting up
and the promise of tulips not far off!
JOY! JOY! JOY!
Linda
The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday —Night Visitors
I moved us outside…that stay’n in the house was start’n to wear on me. Boom, now, he says he could stay in the house always. But, Mom and Dad, and even I were getting right tired of Boomer sitting around panting. So out we went. Two days and two nights now, but Mom says we will have to move back in tonight as another winter storm is coming in today…it’s supposed to start raining this afternoon and then change over to snow.
Phewy!
But I suppose I should be grateful for the house. And Mom who insists we stay inside when it’s nasty outside.
Now if it’s raining AND THUNDERING I would MUCH PREFER being inside and right ON MOM, if she would let me!
Shudder, shudder, shake, and shudder!
But…onto night-time living.
Freddy Fox comes by;
he is pretty regular…
always around
early in the morning.
The two Raccoons come in the yard…not all the time, but they do come. We can smell them coming so Boomer and I take off running as fast as we can to halllllllllllllllllllllllo at them.
Our running down the corral line always makes them hop up on the top of corral and scamper off back to the fields.
Sammy-Sam the cat hangs out with us until mid-night….he like to makes sure there are no stray cats on the property. Then he gets tired and heads in for the night. That cat sure seems to sleep a lot! Then he comes back out around 4:00 in the morning, since there is usually something going on just before dawn.
Between us dogs and Sam we hardly ever have any stray cats, but we do get them.
We had this visitor….Dad helped him go to the Big Skunk heaven in the sky somewhere.
Can you imagine what SKUNK HEAVEN must smell like…………….phew.
We like to patrol the property
(just the outbuildings and the house and yards) day and night.
In the daytime we get to chase squirrels. We have a couple of ground squirrels and boy, are they ever fun.
There is always something happening…the chickens, other birds, 
and we get to see
Dad heading out to do work. (We don’t go with Dad, just Mom.)
Yes, Sir! That’s our job and I’m proud of it!
Fuzzy ….oh, yes…and Boomer
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
I was looking back at some old photos and ran across this
It was taken on March 22 a couple of years ago. If the season is similar we have around sixteen more days to go…..
YIPPEE!
Linda
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
We are still cold here, but getting warmer every day. Although, it IS still coat wearing weather, at least it isn’t layered coat wearing weather :).
Terry started working on the ditches yesterday, but the wind was just too bad. In fact it blew one of the yard lights off it’s pole, so he had to stop.
The wind blew the storm over Grand Mesa, which is how our storms go…in through eastern Utah, then over Grand Mesa to the Craig, Steamboat Spring area and on to where ever they go from there. Sometimes they lose their steam along the way, but always they leave us by going toward Cedaredge and Grand Mesa.
We will start work on getting the spot ready for the old grainery...this might take some time, but it has to be moved before the first cutting of hay. Where it sits now is where the haystacks are going to sit.
I must be off…the sun has warmed the frost off of things and I need to be doing!
Have a nice day everyone!
Linda
Monday, March 4, 2013
Not lots happening here. It’s rained off and on for two days…I should be able to go out and start to find green shoots of something coming up. The rain has pretty much melted off all the old snow, which is good. Now we have mud…one step closer to farm and yard work!
Once we get dry enough down here we will get out on the ground and start.
Yippee!
The talk is all about water, (I’m sure you are not surprised) but it is snowing in the mountains and now they (the Ditch Company people) are thinking…just thinking at this point…that WHEN they turn on the water they will start at 60% instead of 50%.
I always smile when I hear the men fretting and worrying, because I have a HUGE Secret…MAGIC THOUGHTS!
All of you in blog land are sending MAGIC THOUGHTS to our reservoirs in Gunnison County —Taylor Park Reservoir and Blue Mesa Reservoir.
Since all of you started with the MAGIC THOUGHTS we have gone from 50% to POSSIBLY 60% !!!
How very exciting. And the weather forecast shows more rain for us on Friday, which should mean SNOW IN THE HIGH COUNTRY!!!
Thank you all very much!
Linda
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Boy, is that ever nice to write….MARCH! YIPPEE!
I received a delightful gift on Friday all the way from sunny California
…Janine, sent to me this wonderful mug, full of organic tea bags,
(the tea is call Immune Boost- full of white tea buds, German chamomile, peppermint, ginger lemon grass, lemon verbena and cardamon. —Terry and I had a nice cup of afternoon tea that very day)
with a lovely note written to me on paper designed by her sister, a spoon for honey to stir the tea with from her daughter Jessica.
With the hope that whatever this thing is that I keep fighting will finally go away.
I am so surprised and pleased.
It’s true the world is full of friends…and all because of blogging!
Linda
The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday —Snacks
…………….just as Mom came out of the back door I jumped up from my comfy bed in my outside dog house. I was just in time to see Boomer padding up to Mom, tail wagging. We were both very glad to see Mom. If you see Mom that means we are going to do something, go for a ride, go for a walk, something that Boomer and I don’t have to figure out to do. Just be with Mom and see the sites.
She was on her way to check on the cows and the calves….GOOD!
We love going out to check on the cows and calves. We don’t go unless we are invited…rule number 6…never go into the maternity ward unless Mom is with you.
Hank never gets to go…Hank has some pretty bad manners…like he wants to chase cars, he wants to chase chickens, and yep, you guessed it…he wants to chase cows. So Hank has to always stay home and play with the little kids, which isn’t too bad of a deal. The bad part of the whole ‘being outside alone’ thing for Hank is he has to wear a shock collar.
Boom and I have discussed this — after talking to Hank we’ve decided we are NEVER going to wear a shock collar so if we are told NO…we listen.
Anyway, we were off with Mom to the maternity ward…yep, lots of calves, then I caught a smell..hummmmmm a delicious smell…I poked my nose up into the air and gave a big sniff, then I looked for Mom and Boomer…they were was down the lane, I looked behind me…just the cat.. I knew just what I was going to do…I was going to get myself a little snack…
BEEF JERKY!!
YUMMMMMM.
A dog doesn’t often get to have beef jerky, most of the Momma cow’s clean everything up, but sometimes a new mom will forget…then the afterbirth sort of sits out there and dries up and well…if I can ever find any…I LOVE IT!!!
I found some…and I was going to go get it and forgo the walk with Mom.
So off I went.
It was just about the time that I was chowing down on the beef jerky
that I hear Mom, telling Boomer: “DROP IT!”
“Drop it, Boomer! THAT IS GROSS, DROP IT!”
Yep, I knew just what he had found…nothing finer than MILK DUDS! Little baby calves only eat milk from the Mom for weeks, takes them some time to get their little stomachs to the place whereby they can start eating grass and hay, up until that time their poop is delicious!
Yummm.
I saw Mom reach Boomer and then I saw Boomer running off with a nice pile of Milk Duds, then Mom got Boomer to stop at which time he dropped the snack. Then I saw Mom covering up the snack with dirt and telling Boomer he wasn’t going to eat that then come into the house and throw up!
NO SIR!!!
Then they started back toward ME!!!!
I had to hurry, I was only a little ways into my snack…my old teeth and jaws don’t chew as fast as they used too. Suddenly Mom was there.
“DROP IT, FUZZY! NOW!”
Dang it, so I did.
She then got hold of my collar (she already had Boomer’s collar) and we headed back home.
Sigh!
On the way we met Sam…he just gave us this look of — you guys sure are dumb.
Boomer told him, but they taste so good!
By the time we reached Sam, Mom wasn’t leading us anymore. I sure wanted to turn around and give a wistful look at the Maternity Ward, but I was a little concerned I would get yelled at in front of the cat, so I didn’t.
Back home, Mom put us in the house.
Boomer didn’t throw up…he said he only got a little taste before Mom got there.
I suppose we won’t get to go to the Maternity Ward now for some time.
Bummer!
Fuzzy
Wednesday, February 27, 2012
I’ve been up since 4 in the morning, I just couldn’t sleep. I think I felt the earth shift last night.
The shift was very subtle…about 3 in the morning, actually. A tiny, tiny, tiny tilt back towards the sun, leaving this colder place (in the scheme of things) until sometime next winter.
The shift was very subtle, still I woke with a start…it felt like something a little bit more was happening…a little more sunshine, a little more warmth…maybe I was dreaming, but it felt …well — Good!
I pulled all of the curtains, put wood on the fire and settled down to look to the east.
The sun started lighting the sky around 6:21 in the morning, with the sunrise happening at 6:48–it was cold…11* and the earth still crusted with snow. If I looked to the west I could see the cows and their calves making the trek from the corrals around Misty’s house and the other bunch of cows walking over the hill from the equipment area…a new day was beginning.
The sun will set tonight at 6:02 giving us 11 hours and 15 minutes of daylight (if my figures are right!
I didn’t even remember to get my camera. I just sat and enjoyed and became part of this minute shift.
These little Coots were having a great time at Confluence Park Sunday…someone has tossed them some ‘lunch’.
Thank you to everyone who commented and is sending Magic Thoughts for wet mountain snow in March…you are all the best!!
If it doesn’t snow we will just do with the hand we are given and make the best of it.
Hope really does spring eternal doesn’t it?
Thank each of you so much,
Linda
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