We are melting
No more snow in many places
Gradually
Gradually 
That big snow is becoming
Not so big
And that way, way, way too cold
Is going away so Boo Berry and I —see me way back there) can walk on DIRT!
Or mud or other things.
Happiness is the small stuff—don’t ya think?
TLC Cai-Cai
The wind came. (see my ruffled fur)
And the slick ice
and the mud
And then another round of snow
Then more wind. (See the wind in our hair)
Mom says it’s the end of February and all this won’t last. She says it will probably be here until the middle of March, and it will just go away!
We sure hope mom is right.
TLC Cai-Cai and Boo Berry Betty
Mom will tell you all about our big four-day and four-night snow on Sunday… right now I want to tell you —-
I JUST LOVE MY NEW LIFE!!!
I have so many things I get to do, so many things I want to do, and things I didn’t even KNOW I wanted to do.
Like ride with Mom in the car!
Wait! Wait!
Back to the beginning.
My first 3 ½ years were spent in a kennel, hearing other dogs, and then getting to have a visit with a boy dog—that never lasted long, in and out kinda thing.
Then I got to come live with MOM and Dad and my very own cat, TLC!!
For the first two months, it was scary! I had issues with some things, like wetting the floor anytime I got afraid. (and I WAS afraid lots—but NOT any more 🙂 )
Although, it didn’t take me long to like to go “OUTSIDE” to do my private stuff. Mom always told me I was a GOOD GIRL so going outside was fun. And freeing. And Full of cool things to smell.
Anyway…that is a moot point. Mom and I have worked out a system of understanding and all is good.
You know, if I were a human, I would be 32 years old. I would be holding down a good job—kids growing up—you know—established.
Well! I am AM established!
I play with TLC. I go outside BY myself (sometimes, well, not often, only if TLC is with me)
I go on very long walks with Mom whereby I can sniff the news to my heart’s content.
I ride in my very own basket with Mom as she does ‘stuff’ on the farm.
And Now!
I can load myself up into the car, get over into the passenger seat, or on Mom’s lap and go for a car ride!
It’s no longer so scary I have to hide my eyes!
YES! I am getting Established! Four is a perfect age for me!
Boo Berry
Guess what my favoritist thing to do is?
Go on a walk with MOM!
I don’t care where we go.
We can go—
Here
And THERE
And well—not where the horses are, they are scary.
We can go with Kya and Black Beauty and Shannon
We can go to the hen house
Or into the yard
I really don’t care.
Just so I’m with MOM!
Boo Berry Betty
Oh
Yes
I
Can!
Sometimes RUN FAST! EVER SO FAST!
You have to be
FAST
Because we have
A HAWK
That lives around here.
TLC Cai-Cai
This is my birth month.
Mom doesn’t know the exact day
And neither do I.
We just know that the vet said I was probably born
Around the first of the month of January,
Give or take.
So Mom always says HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the First Friday of the Month of January.
That works for me!
And for Mom.
So here I am TWO YEARS OLD
And King of the family!
(Don’t I look like a king? 😊 )
Beautiful, wonderful, Darling, Mom always says to me!
TLC Cai-Cai
There really isn’t anything else
You can’t do anything about yesterday,
Or tomorrow! Just Today!
The best thing to do [then] is ENJOY today!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Wishing the very best for each and every one of you!
Your friends on a western Colorado Farm,
Terry, Linda, TLC Cai-Cai, and Boo Berry Betty
(Oh, yes—and the hens 🙂 )
The year is going fast, faster, fastest now.
Each day is getting closer to the end
Then we will begin again.
What a year it has been!
“I got a new home,” Boo Berry Betty Brown
“I got a new sister,” TLC Cai-Cai
And Mom and Dad got to have TWO fur kids!
YAY!
Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai
I am so delighted to have you very human people — as very human, friends
Being among people such as you has given me such joy!
All of us, each and every one of us, has grown through gentle touches and sometimes very hard knocks
Resulting in a gift called maturity!
A gift where judgments are no longer necessary
As we all know living is sometimes hard and sometimes joyful.
And sending out love the best we can is the only way to live.
Merry Christmas to you and yours–always!
From our hearts to Your world,
Terry, Linda, TLC Cai-Cai, Boo Berry Betty, and all the hens 🙂
Life on a Colorado Farm 