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
(Backing up the water so the headgate will fill)
Mom and Dad just thought (HOPED) that last week’s big wind was the last big wind!
(Scary walking across that tiny board—Mom won’t even try. I don’t get out of my basket)
Nope!
Nadda!
Not at ALL!
(That is the trash dug out of the canal so the water could start)
We (Mom, Dad, Me (sometimes) worked all day in a big, big wind Tuesday and all day Wednesday.
70 m.p.h. gusts of wind getting the water started on the farm.
(We (Terry) must check the headgate several times a day to keep the trash out)
This is a hard, hard time, not only the wind but all the winter trash that comes down the water, plugging up the headgate. That makes Dad have to go check the headgate off and on. As I already said. 🙂 Boo Berry
In the afternoon, Kya and
Black Beauty, and my human sister, Shannon helped.
Once the water got to the horse pasture, Shannon, Kya, and Black Beauty took over setting the water in the horse pasture; Mom and Dad finished up on the new corn field.
It is so cold here we have been in a freeze warning which will last until Sunday.
Mom grew up in a huge fruit orchard—so this frozen stuff always makes her glad our livelihood is not based on fruit. This time of year is dangerous for fruit growers.
Okay, here is the deal: the WATER IS ON the FARM!!! (of which I get to go and help with) At least two (or more) times a day.
Mom says I am a very good irrigator! I don’t jump in the water like Kya and stop the tubes,
I just hang right by Mom like Black Beauty does Shannon.
TLC stays home all stretched out by the fire! Hummmmm.
(Who is stretched out by the fire? I am guarding the farmyard. TLC)
Boo Berry
We had company for Easter.
Yes!!!
Company!
Black Beauty, Apollo, and Loki—
Mom and Dad had the humans.
Just so you know what’s been going on!
TLC Cai-Cai and Boo Berry Betty
Sending a rock Heart, Love, and Spring Wishes to all of you!
Your friends on a western Colorado farm,
Terry, Linda, TLC Cai-Cai, and Boo Berry Betty Brown
After the big wind (and it WAS BIG)
We had this!
It did not last long
BUT
It was still here
Mom says she thinks this is winter’s
Last Good-Bye
TLC and Boo Berry
Someone is coming!
Guard the door!
Don’t be silly.
It’s our cousins!
Apollo (the red one) and Loki—here for a week while their family goes to Las Vegas!
Company!
TLC Cai-Cai and Boo Berry Betty
The March winds are here
The wind in March has a true purpose
Without the wind the trees would have trouble
For it is with the wind the trees are able to bring the sap up from the roots.
Wind! We jump for joy!
Soon the trees will have leaves!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
They say—
That more of this is coming in
O! Please!
Let all of this
Be just a memory—-
Until next year—
in November through February.
Please let genuine Spring Begin!
Storm clouds forming! Sigh!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
TLC and I went outside to
PLAY!!!
But—
Dad was backing up that big
Scary
Machine.
(This was taken two weeks ago)
So, we ran back inside!
Mom told us Dad was going out to see if the rain made it
Too muddy to get back out
On the Land.
Guess what?!
Dad is BACK ON THE LAND!
TLC and Boo Berry
TLC and I had a big play out in the alfalfa field
It was lots of fun
We had Run
Play
Sniff
This was while we were on a walk with Mom.
Dry dirt is just the best!!!
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mom heard another big storm is heading back in here
NO!
No more this
Or This
Or ANYTHING Like THIS
We want the farming season to begin,
which means DRY!
So, we can PLAY!!
TLC and Boo Berry
Life on a Colorado Farm 