The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—-Stuff

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Dayphoto

My days are pretty much just rolling along. We are starting to see little vines and flower buds on the pinto beans. I could care less, but Mom and Dad think it’s a HUGE deal. I just wag my tail and agree with them.

The baby corn is popping up on the corn stalks. If I move through the corn rows I come out will corn pollen on me. Dad says this is a scary time for corn, the deer like to eat the silk. If they eat the silk the corn won’t make. Dad always gets really worried about this time of year. Mom says it’s our 10% tithe.

The fox and the raccoon are helping Mom clean up all the apricots. Fox can climb trees, did you know that? So can raccoons. We have two trees they climb up, to the very top, and get those little apricot fruit Mom can’t reach.

Mom says we share here…works for her and works for them. Also works for me, because I get to sniff all the news when they are on the farm and in the farm yard!

Mom, Dad, Sammy-Sam, and I sit outside and watch all the hummingbirds every evening.

We have four pair of Rufus Hummingbirds this year…Mom is really excited. She says she counted about 30 little hummers. I don’t get Mom’s excitement, it’s just part of the birds who live on our place.

Now what I find exciting is FOOTPRINTS in the mud! THAT is exciting!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—A HUGE WONDERFUL TREAT

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Dayphoto

I’ve had an ear infection again. After a trip to the Animal Doctor I got two…BOTH earfuls of ‘stuff’ in my ears. Then my ears were massaged and massaged…I didn’t yelp once! That stuff felt sooooooooooo good.

After a week I had to go back to the Animal Doctor where a cold thing was poked into my ears and I was pronounced “GOOD to GO!”

GO!!! My favorite word…right up there with FOOD, Treat! DINNER!

That evening Mom and Dad came out of the house and Mom said: “Let’s GO for a ride, Boomie.”

I beat them to the pick-up! It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten to ride in the BACK of the pick-up! Mom didn’t want my very long soft ears flapping in the wind—she said the wind might make my ears ache again.

But this time—OH! THE JOY! I got to ride in the back of the pick-up.

Dad threw down my carpet –up next to the cab of the truck—Mom picked me up and helped me into the bed and we were off!

I LOVE going for rides! There are so many different things to see and smell, it just makes the day so much better.

I like any kind of ride, but the back of the pick-up ride is WONDERFUL!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—It’s Good to be BETTER!

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Dayphoto

I’m doing much better. I found several things to roll in over a couple of days!

It was a huge delight—-until Mom got me home.

Then I got a good scrub down.

But that was okay, because I got to sleep inside. Mom said I was clean and smelled good so I was welcome in the house. (“And please remember that!” She admonished.)

I do remember. I just take the good YUMMY NASTY SMELLY STUFF along with the bad A BATH and go along my merry way!

I pretty much rest my knee…usually I just sit on the back of our four-wheeler, Mom’s and mine and watch Mom and Dad work. But randomly I’ve gotten off and explored. Hence the finding of cool smelly green goo.

Then last night I decided to NOT hear Mom call or the four-wheeler start up. I’m supposed to come the second one of those things happen. Usually I do.

Really!

But last night I decided NOT to.

That is when Mom and Dad went to a whole other place of the farm WITHOUT me!

Then, just as they were starting to head back to the house I remembered if I didn’t go with them I would have to run/walk the WHOLE WAY BACK!

Taking off down the middle field farm road I picked up my legs and RAN!

And you know what? MY KNEE WORKED!

YAY!

It is so nice to feel GOOD again!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—It’s Summer Time

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Dayphoto

And the living is getting easy!

First things first, Mom says: “Our boy left today.” But for a small space in time I got to be petted and loved on by the two girls. The littlest one had broken the ball in her elbow and wasn’t feeling very well (they had been to camp and she fell off the top bunk during the night).

I understand about bad limbs…I blew my knee out again. It’s been taking lots of time to heal this time. Mom says it’s because I’m elderly, now, so healing takes longer.

I’ve been sleeping lots and lots so my knee WILL heal. (Mom says I’m silly sleeping like I do in the dog house. She makes me come in so I will lay flat.)

Mom rubs DMSO on it once a day. I really like how it makes my knee feel. Afterwards…like in about an hour, I usually feel good enough to go outside and do ‘doggie things’—you know sniff around and gather up all the news in the farm yard.

Yesterday Dad was gone so it was just Mom and I doing the irrigation. I actually felt good enough to go with her. I had just been wagging my tail and watching her drive off, but not today.

Today I beat her to her four-wheeler and waited for her to get there and lift me up so I could GO!

I even wanted down so I could check out everything going on, on the farm!

Mom said she was “DELIGHTED” I was feeling much better!

ME TOO!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—We Slid into Spring

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Dayphoto

These days are wonderful! Mom and Dad, the cats and yours truly—BOOMER the Beagle, have been spending every minute of the day outside doing all sorts of things.

Dad works on his ‘stuff’,

Mom is working on raking around all the outbuildings, the chicken house, the three woodpiles and is heading over to the equipment storage area and the corrals next!

The cats hang around outside and act pitiful. Just pitiful…gosh, geez, they are outside and the wind blows and messes up their fur, and there is no really comfy bed to lay on, whine, whine, whine.

I get sick of it!

Now ME! I go out the first rattle out the box every morning. First light! And I don’t come back in until the sunsets. (By that time I’m ready to come in.)

I can’t linger too long in the house, you know…there is a whole farm of snacks out there…first I go out and get snacks. Then I bring them in and toss them around on the grass for a spell. After that I EAT them. Then I take a nap. After my nap I repeat my run to the fields.

I used to try and bury my snacks…way back when I was new here, but when I went to UNbury them they were gone. Just Gone! So now I drag them into the yard. I used to drag them in arrange them in areas….beef jerky here, milk duds there. But when I was out getting more Mom would come by and gather them all up into a sack and take them to the trash barrel!!!!!

(I have to be wary of rain…for some reason rain melts my milk duds so I try to bury them under leaves and weeds in Mom’s flower beds. Mom doesn’t like that either. Go figure.)

Mom gathering up my snacks and destroying them Horrifies me! So now I scatter them here and there and everywhere. Mom still tries to get them all picked up, but she misses some. Tee Hee. Those are the ones I snack on when she isn’t looking.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO anywho…

I repeat this off and on all day. I want a nice pile of snacks, for when the cows leave in the next couple of weeks.

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Milk Duds and Beef Jerky

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Dayphoto

The cows are here!

Mom and I are in cow heaven! Every day Dad, Mom, and I head out and count babies. Right now…the count this morning was forty five calves on the ground.

Some just born overnight, a couple being born, as we drove by, and several are days and even a week or so old.

Now I admit, the other thing I like about CALF season is SNACKS! Mom gets rather irritated with me about SNACKS, in calf season, but (golly-geez!), I can’t help myself they are SO good!

I have to head-out by myself, as Mom gets grossed out and won’t let me snack. (I must admit Fuzzy never liked these snacks. I don’t know why he didn’t, he would just turn his head and walk on by.)

The first day of figuring out the farm is now loaded with Milk Duds (calf poopy) and Beef Jerky (after birth) I ate so much I had a belly ache. Mom told me she didn’t feel one bit sorry for me. Well, so what, I felt sorry for me.

BUT NOT ENOUGH TO STOP!!!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Rock a-bye Beaglie

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Dayphoto

Our company left. Mom was sad. Dad was sad. And I was sad. The cats rejoiced! They don’t like company or HANK!

I got to play lots and lots and I got

Lots and lots of love.

Company….

It’s the best!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Company!

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Dayphoto

We have company!

Hank Marshmallow Puff Cake McCormick has arrived!

He brought his family…all of them…

Mom, Dad,

Blade,

Linkin and

Tallin.

I like having those people show up also.

I get lots of hugs and loves and pats and rubs! I even get laid-on and ran with!

But the most fun comes with HANK! We do lots and lots and lots of things together…sniff out mice, (Hank digs in Mom’s flower beds and on the edges of the lawn-I don’t, but I do watch him), and long walks to see what is going on in the corn fields.

Although this year, Mom is making us stay in the yard because of the Sand Hill Cranes.

Heck! That’s okay by me…

HANKS! HERE!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Priceless——–Friday, February 5, 2016

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Dayphoto

I think Every One needs a dog…Don’t you?

We were out working, Mom, Dad, and I. Doing this and that. Going here and there. Then I noticed that Mom and Dad were sitting down taking a break.

Heck! I’ll just take one with them!

Perfect!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Getting Ready

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Dayphoto

Dad, Mom, and I put the farm to bed this week.

We picked up all the syphon tubes and worked on fences.

It’s time, you see.

Time to put the farm to bed, button all the hatches, and get ready for the cows to come!

Mom is very excited that we are close to getting the cows. Mom says having the cows here helps her get past winter faster. She also likes seeing the baby calves popping out here and there on the farm.