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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

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday —It Snowed

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Dayphoto

It snowed! I love the snow! I really, really do! I run as fast as I can and then I stop and slide, snow is ever so much better than that really, really, really cold we’ve been having.

I smelled Robbie the Raccoon clear out buy the diversion gate; I followed him every which way and clear up to the waste water transmission pipe. Boy was he ever busy last night!

Fuzzy stayed pretty close to Mom. He likes to play in the snow also, but his left front leg doesn’t always work the best so he wanted hang close if he should fall. I looked back a couple of times and he was even running! So I ran back to see if he wanted to go with me and smell Robbie the Raccoon’s tracks.

He said he would think about it, so I told him while he was thinking I would race ahead. He thought that would work.

While Mom and Dad finished putting up the panels, so the cows can go onto the farm, Fuzzy and I searched for Mice in the old corn field.

Nope, didn’t find any.

But we will…they will come out and we will find them.

A big bird was sitting over at the equipment yard watching us—he hollered at us to let him know if we see any mice. He said he was having trouble finding some.

I bayed back that we would, if we do.

Just before we came in, the lady who was to get her last load of hay showed up. That finished up all the hay. So Mom and Fuzzy and I went up to the upper end and brought the cows down, while Dad finished the fence.

Then we moved the cows onto the farm.

They love eating all the old corn stalks and the old alfalfa stems.

Well, gotta go, I want to run back out into the corn field with Fuzzy, it’s warming up a bit and the snow is melting. I’ll bet the mice are out!

Bye,

Boomer

Wordless Wednesday

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Dayphoto

Linda

Piano Lessons and Daily Practice

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dayphoto

Linki is taking piano lessons, something she has wanted to do for a long time. Since we have the piano and their house isn’t big enough for the piano she rides the bus here, practices and then after a snack she goes home.

After I took this photo and saw all the toys you would think the kids live here.

They don’t, but Terry and I are really lucky that they live just across the field from us.

Linda

Santa Claus

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Dayphoto

This little Santa Claus is many, many years old. It has been in the family since the early 1920’s, at least.

It is one of our most favorite things, when I bring out the Christmas decorations. Although, I do have others, like a tiny french horn that really plays and a glass clown.

What is your favorite Christmas decoration?

Linda

Birds

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Dayphoto

For some reason these Herons/Crane (I don’t know for sure which) have taken over our farm…I’m not complaining. But I would like to have both types land here. It seems where the Herons/Cranes are the Geese don’t land, so somehow in the world of birds the word has gone out…No Geese Allowed. We sometimes have hundreds and hundreds of these lovely birds.

Linda

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday —Hunting Mice

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dayphoto

Nothing new here…still cold; and I do mean C.O.L.D.

Mom has put a heat lamp in the chicken house (red, because if you don’t put red in the chickens will peck on each other…Chickens are NOT very smart! Mom says that isn’t true, she says she thinks chickens are like people and treat each other just like groups of people treat each other.) She also hooked up the electric water heater for the chicken water tank. Dad has the cow water from freezing. The only thing that freezes now is our water dish, but Mom keeps a really close eye on it.

It’s so cold now that we sleep in the house….YIPEEE!!! Hoo Ray!!

I like sleeping in the house, so does Boomer.

Mom has to keep a really close eye on us there, because we get lazy and don’t want to go outside and ‘do our duty’. We’ve both been ‘trained’ but who likes to have bodily fluids freeze as it leaves your body?

Boomer said I exaggerated but when you’re advanced in age, that’s what it feels like. Frozen….well you know what I mean.

It’s really nice having Mom home. This is the first time in my whole life that I’ve lived here that Mom has been home all day long. (She goes to town sometimes, but that isn’t very long. Before she would leave before day break and get back after dark…she was gone a long, long time.)

The day warms up pretty slow. Last night the cold air was around 8* and just before the sun came up it was 6*, but the day will warm up. It got up to 40* yesterday afternoon.

Something we all do now that Mom is home ALL THE TIME is go for a walk. We walk all over the farm, she says it’s good for me…keeps my bones working. We go slow, Mom and I, Boomer runs all over the place clear up there and clear over there, back to where Mom and are. Sometimes Mom walks a little too fast for me, but she is always waits for me to catch-up.

There are lots of things to see and smell so it takes me awhile.

The coyotes are back! Mom got a little weird out because we were walking through the equipment storage area when two coyotes ran right by us. She said she guess it is so cold they are hunting in the day time.

Boomer and I have met Freddy Fox…he is new to the farm. So we have lots of critters visiting us…raccoons, skunks, coyotes, and foxes…so Mom bought a solar critter light to protect the chicken house and pen.

But one of the very best part of winter, besides getting to be in the house all most all the time…sleeping in the mud room, hanging by the fireplace…

Is…

HUNTING MICE!

It’s ever so much fun!

Fuzzy

Wedding Trip

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dayphoto

We went to Las Vegas, Nevada to see Terry’s niece married this weekend. She and her (now) husband were in a Wedding/Marathon on Sunday evening. There were 44,000 people in the marathon, with 150 couples being married.

What happened is after running two miles those who were going to be married stopped at a certain spot, a preacher did a three minute ceremony, they then ran on.

It was pretty crowded for me to be able to get a good photo of the couple, but I tried. Her parents were lots closer and I’m sure they got good photos.

All the brides were dressed in some form of bridal wear and the grooms wore the top half of a tux. Beverly wore an all white running outfit. She was cute as cute could be.

As soon as the couple said ‘I do’ the Mirage set off thier volcano adding even more drama to the event.

Afterwards, and before they could start running again, Pete and Beverly were interviewed on TV for being one of the couples at this most unusual wedding experience.

Congratulations, Beverly and Pete! Thank you for inviting us!

Terry and Linda

Dear Santa Claus

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Dayphoto

Dear Santa Claus,

I am eight years old this year…I will be nine next month. I want to thank you for my wonderful walking doll, I named her Angela, she is a beautiful as an angel. I have taken very good care of her and I sleep with her every night.

If you have time would you bring me a furry foot rug for my room? My Momma has painted it a really nice color. When we were at J. C. Penney’s I saw a really nice rug shaped like a foot. If you can bring me that rug I would put it beside my bed so my feet will feel it the first thing every morning.

By the way there are lots of kids that say you are not real. But I think you are. My grandma says you are magic and as long as we believe in magic, magic is real.

Have a nice night traveling. I hope you don’t have bad weather.

Linda

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday —I Meet Robbie

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Dayphoto

It’s really cold here…or at least I think it’s really cold here. Fuzzy says it’s just right, but he has lots more fur than I do. He has two coats….TWO!!! I have one and sometimes I think it’s really thin.

Mom put a coat on me once, but I found it rather binding. It was red. Last January Hank and I were playing and Hank just ripped it off of me. Then Hank and I took it and ran up and down the yard pulling and shaking it…woweeeee, boy that was fun!

We were getting really into it when the backdoor slammed and out came MOM with a very angry face and a LOUD voice to match.

STOP! She YELLED!

(And I do mean yelled)

Hank and I stopped right then…Hank had a piece of red material hanging out of his mouth and was in mid-prance, as for me I had some of the stuffing (is that what you call it?) caught in my collar and flapping on the top of my head. There were bits and pieces of the coat laying every which way and even up — all over the yard, down the road and well….in our mouths.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I got another coat. It was green. I really didn’t like it…rather binding as they say. When Mom would put it on me I would sit around and pant. Finally Mom said, okay, if you get cold you can go into your dog house. I give up.

But that doesn’t have anything to do with what happened last night. I just wanted to tell you why I don’t have a coat.

We always get to come in and out of the house as long as Mom is home. Dad doesn’t let us in the house. He will let us into the tractor shed, the shop, the barn and any other place, but… Nope, nope, Dogs don’t belong in the house, he says.

But whenever we are in he always pets us and lets us lay at his feet, so I think he sends mixed messages.

Anyway…the last two nights have been cold, dark and cold, but the sky has been just loaded with stars! Crisp clear and loaded with sparkly winking stars. Beautiful!

It was cold, but not so cold I wanted to stay in the dog house. Fuzzy was sitting outside on the back step, so I lay next to my dog house and we talked.

We sit around lots in the daytime and wait for Lucky the Squirrel. He said his name is that because we can’t catch him.

Lucky also has a couple of friends, but we haven’t met them so far. We’ve seen them but we’ve only met Lucky.

What happens is when we see Lucky run very fast across the road from the tractor shed to the light pole by the shop we run really fast barking the whole time.

It’s great fun!

Even Lucky says it’s fun for him also.

We never catch Lucky…I don’t know what we would do if we did….Fuzzy and I have talked about it and we really don’t want to catch Lucky. We just like running and barking and TRYING to catch him.

🙂

Lucky’s friends stay out by the ditches and over in the wood pile. (They sure are making a mess of the wood pile.)

As we were talking I noticed that the sky sure was beautiful. It was so beautiful I thought I would lift my nose and sing a sweet song to the sky, when suddenly Fuzzy took off barking down the drive way toward the barn and the grain bins and the hay stack.

He sure can be fast when he wants too.