Boy, was it ever hot for a spell. A long-long-long spell.
BUT THE RAINS CAME!
Good Rain!
Nothing to complain about rain!
Mom and Dad said: YAY!!!
“August slipped away into a moment in time, ’cause it was never mine.”–Taylor Swift
TLC and Boo Berry
(Mom forgot to get photos of us in the rain so she used these from a while back. It pretty much looks the same!)
Last week we got a bit of rain….
Enough to make my fur wet. Mom says this rain was a gift! She said we really needed it.
But Mom doesn’t hunt in the wet grass and stuff.
No, but she (and Dad and I) do have to walk around and ride in the mud. And the mud is a tad slippery.
Now we are back to needing rain again.
Only in your opinion, snarks TLC.
You gotta admit 103* is a wee bit hot, TLC. Some rain will cool us down, replied Boo Berry.
Life on a Colorado farm,
TLC and Boo Berry
Goodbye our friends, Loki and Apollo!
See you on break!
Boo Berry and TLC
GET INSIDE, LOKI!!!! RUN! HIDE!
HEY! WAIT FOR ME!!! I’m not staying out here either!!
WHY ARE WE RUNNING!!? And going inside also?
Mom and Dad have hauled in 1,000 bales of hay and the hay customers —-
They are coming with their big trucks and long trailers!!
HIDE!!!
Boo Berry and TLC
Finally, I am doing much better!
Almost, ALMOST, back to my old self!
I still have moments when things over-whelm me and I have to sit down and pull out as much fur as I can.
If Mom sees me doing that she grabs me, takes the fur out of my mouth and gives me lots of and lots of pets and kisses.
That helps. I forget about what is making me scared.
What has helped?
Well, it wasn’t the calming collars. I turned into a twisted tornado of fear when Mom put that thing on my neck.
It was a Feliway defusser.
Made me purr happily.
TLC Cai-Cai
purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Boo Berry and I are super stressed, anymore
There are people, and BIG TRUCKS, and people, and sometimes dogs in the yard all the time
It’s a tad nerve-racking
So I’ve decided to pull my hair out in huge mouth-fulls
Boo Berry tells me it will be okay soon, I just have to wait a bit.
Mom tells me to go into the house and hang out— she says that is the best for me.
She also got me some calming collars.
We both hope they work.
TLC
There have been LOTS of goings on here
I mean LOTS!!!
Yep! Every day!
Not the same people (well, sometimes they make two trips)
They are after the same stuff
Mom says this all good! I should remember this from last year.
I remember. It just —
It just cuts down on my mousing!!
So I go inside when Boo Berry barks the big trucks and trailers down the road.
Besides it’s hot out there!
TLC
There is lots and lots of stuff going on
Our second hayfield is getting cut, even while Mom writes this letter to you.
We have hay in the haystack yard
And hay customers arriving to take away the hay
I bark the hay pick-ups and trailers into the yard and out of the yard
Then I go sit under our trailer and watch all the goings on
Add to all of that there is the changing of the water
Which causes several trips out to the farm
Then Mom has to do her own yard and housework. I Help Mom whatever she is doing.
Yep!
It’s a busy, busy time of the year!
Boo Berry
(Tell me about it!! TLC)
Shhhhh
SSHHHHHHHHH Be very quiet
MMMMMEOOOOOOOOOOOW MOOOOOOOM!!!
MOM! COME SEE!!!
GOOD BOY, TLC!!! Excellent!
Mom Loves You!!!
PURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
TLC
A repeat of this
Has been going on and on
I’m getting tired of this.
It’s hard to look dashing and handsome in the wind!
TLC
Life on a Colorado Farm 