These THINGS are here now!
I must look at the farm from a different angle—can’t get out there and get stomped on.
Yes! They do try to stomp on cats!
Or kick them and watch them fly through the air.
So…nope! No way am I patrolling by the grain bins, the equipment storage area, or the edge of the fields.
Nope, no way.
(Me either!!! Boo Berry)
TLC
We haven’t seen our shadows for a while…but they are back!
TLC and I like Shadows.
Mom likes shadows more than I do.
TLC doesn’t like his shadow to be seen, but he does like to see the hawk’s or the owl’s shadow because that means HIDE!
The days are cold and dry, but they do warm up a tad around noon to three,
so Mom, TLC, and I go for a walk,
and Mom looks for Shadows!
Boo Berry and TLC
We were out walking—Boo Berry
TL and I.
When I turned onto the bridge and looked back at the one lagging behind
TLC. Just as the sun crested the cornfield and lit up our world.
Stunning. Really! Just stunning.
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”–Coco Chanel
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I wonder why they call it Black Friday.
It’s not very black today. Actually, I’ve never really seen a BLACK day….some pretty dark nights, but never black truly.
When it’s night I wouldn’t call it black—pretty dark, but never Black.
I’m black, well, parts of me are. There is a wild black kitty that lives somewhere here on the farm, but not a BLACK day.
Hoomans are soooooooooo strange!
Boo Berry
My oldest human sister bought me an amazing gift!
It sounds like a real bird, it flops like a real bird and tastes like a real bird.
I LIKE IT!
Mom is always taking the real birds away from me. She says I can’t eat real birds only mice. She then puts the real birds somewhere….I look but I can never find them.
Wherever Mom puts them I hear Mom say—“Now you are safe! Heal quickly and fly away.”
I have to really attack this bird so Mom will leave it alone.
BIRD! BIRD! BIRD! BIRD IS THE WORD!!!!!
TLC
BIG MACHINES!!!
All in the yard
Moving THROUGH the YARD
RUN TLC RUN!!! It’s Corn HARVEST!!!
Boo Berry
Chapter 12 Mom and Dad Come HOME!!!
“Hey, Boo! You can crawl out from under the bed now. The storm is all gone!”
“I want Mom!” Boo Berry whined.
“Well, Yeah, Me too!” I replied.
“We just have to wait.”
Just then we heard Dad’s big pick-up coming down the road.
THEY ARE HOME!
We both jumped in the window and watched the Big Pick-up drive down the Long Lane and make the Corner over the bridge to the yard!
Then the pick-up just Stopped!
“THEY ARE HERE! “ Boo Berry screamed. She jumped down, with me right behind her; peeling down the upstairs steps until we got to the back door!
THEY ARE HERE!!! We are so ready for them—
Meanwhile—
“Gosh, it looks like it really rained here while we were gone,” Dad observed
Just then he turned the corner to go over the bridge—
“OH! MY! WORD!” Mom exclaimed. “I’ve never, ever seen rain like this here EVER!”
Dad slowly drove through the huge lake, opened the garage door, and parked.
“I’m going in to see how the fur kids are doing. It must have been a scary storm!”
Mom walked to the house and opened the back door.
“Oh! You are here!” Mom bent down and scooped both of us up into her arms. “There must have been a horrible rain here, but you look okay. It’s a good thing you weren’t outside, TLC! A very good thing!”
You got that right. I thought to myself.
Dad walked in…” Well, we just wait, the takeaway pipe will drain everything into the canal, but it might take all night. That was a LOT of rain!”
Yep, Dad was right. The water drained away overnight and gradually everything became puddles.
That was a HUGE big Storm! Boo Berry and I remarked to each other.
“I’m sure glad your tail warned us.”
“Yep! My tail knows!” I swaggered onto the grass and flopped down. My tail always knows!!
TLC
The End
Chapter 11, It Has Arrived!!!
Well, we can’t really see anything, so I’m going to take a nap. I crawled under the bed where I have the bestest perfect sleeping spot.
I was just closing my eyes when I heard Boo Berry jump down and pad downstairs.
Ahh….sleep, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
HUH!!!!? What? MY TAIL is HUGE! A BIGGER TAIL THAN I EVER HAVE HAD!!! And all my fur is standing up!
I jumped up and ran downstairs. “BOO!” I yelled. “Get Up we have to see what is happening outside!”
Boo Berry jumped up, eyes half-opened. “up! Up! UP!! I’m up! Now what?”
“Get Up where you were and tell me what you see!” I ordered.
With that I jumped up into my recently vacated window!
“OH! BOO! It’s here! The Big Storm is here!”
“Hide!” We both yelled at the same time. “HIDE!”
UNDER THE BED! Boo! Under the Bed!
Chapter 10, Now What?!!!
“Now what!!?” I looked at Boo Berry, “Now what do we do?”
Boo Berry just looked at me with huge, huge, bug eyes and started shaking and shivering.
“You are helpless,” I said.
“No, I’m not, but I’ve never lived where a big storm could come and get me. I lived the first three years of my life in a small cage with a blanket for a bed and no windows. I have only experienced storms HERE! With you and Mom and Dad!! And Mom or Dad or both of them are always here with us. I have never had this happen before ever! “ Boo Berry explained.
I just looked at her. Shook my head in sad dis-belief, and walked over to the kitchen window.
With a graceful leap I placed myself on the ledge of the kitchen window.
Suddenly my tail bushed way out and the fur on my back started raising way up.
“What do you see out there?” Boo Berry asked me.
“Nothing.” I replied. Blue skies, a few very fast moving clouds, and wind. Not the over-the-top kind of wind that took out the willow tree branch but a kinda wind I really don’t like being in. The kind that ruffles up you fur, if you know what I mean.” I explained to Boo Berry.
Nothing. But my tail says there IS something, I mused to myself.
“Maybe we can see something upstairs. If you look out the bed window and I look out the office window maybe we will understand what your tail is trying to tell us.” Boo Berry suggested.
“Sounds like a plan!” I jumped down out the kitchen window and raced as hard and fast as I could through the house to the stairs, Boo Berry just behind me eating my dust.
Quickly I jumped onto the bed, then up onto the window sill. Turning slightly I saw Boo Berry hop onto the sewing machine chair, then over onto the cedar chest and push her nose against the window trying to see if there is a reason my tail is so bushy.
“What do you see?” I yelled.
“Nothing! Just a lot of fast-moving clouds, the wind moving the leaves around in the tree, and the blue sky starting to grow smaller.”
“Yeah, that’s about what I see also.”
I jumped down, Boo Berry jumped down.
“Now what?” I wondered out loud, “what now?”
Chapter 9, Mom Doesn’t’ Understand
“TLC C-C, What is the matter?”, Mom asked me as I came running toward her.
“Did something scare you? Look at your giant bushy tail! My goodness. What is going on?”
Mom picked me up and petted me.
“Your eyes are HUGE, TLC Cai-Cai, HUGE!! Did something chase you?”
MEOW!! MEOW! I screamed at her.
MEOW!!! YEOWL!
I jumped down and ran back toward the house.
“You want in?” Mom puzzled.
“Okay, you can go it. I don’t understand what has you so agitated, but, if you want in you can go in.”
Mom got up from what she was doing and started walking toward the house.
“Tell MOM!! We have to hide! In the house!!” I screamed at Boo Berry. “TELL HER!!”
Boo Berry started dancing and walking in front of Mom…getting in Mom’s way. Trying to get Mom to hurry to the house and get inside.
“BOO! Stop it! You are going to make me fall down.”
Mom reached down and picked up Boo Berry.
“HURRY MOM!!! HURRY!” I yelled.
Boo Berry was squirming and twisting so bad in Mom’s arms that she reached down and gently sat Boo Berry on the ground.
“Geez, I don’t get whatever has gotten into you two, but if you want in the house. Fine. Here, go it.”
Just about the second the back door closed, we heard Dad enter the farm yard.
Mom was still standing by the backdoor when Dad walked up and asked Mom if she would like to go with him to town. He needed a part. They could also get a wee snack at one of the Fast Food Places so she wouldn’t have to fix lunch.
“Okay,” we heard Mom reply. “Just let me get my purse and we are good to go!”
Mom opened the backdoor, and we started hollering at her…NO DO NOT GO! A BIG STORM IS COMING!!
She walked on through the house, picked up her purse, knelt down, and petted us talking soothing baby talk.
“It’s going to be okay.” I’ll be back in an hour or shortly after that. You are in the house now so whatever was out there you are safe now.”
With that, she shut the door, turned the key….and walked away.
Boo and I just looked at each other—
Life on a Colorado Farm 