The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer—Under a Timeless Sky

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Dayphoto

It was a beautiful idyllic day.

Just close your eyes and imagine, with Boomer and me,…a timeless scene on a very rural farm somewhere, anywhere, the perfect place, with lovely crops growing lush and green, the sky a serenely blue– dotted with huge fluffy clouds.

Nearby, Boomer is resting on the cool stones of the patio, almost asleep, but keeping an eye on Mom who is feeding the wild birds. Back and forth she goes…moving here and there…back and forth, back and……………….fffoooooooooorth. Dozing

I’m resting under the pick-up truck …gradually, ever so gradually my eyes are closing…time is unfettered allowing……………….ahhhhhhhhh

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Suddenly I hear Mom say!

“Up Boys, we need to get up to the sweet corn patch before it gets too hot! Today is the day to pick, freeze and can sweet corn!”

“UP!”

“Let’s go!”

ooomp, snort, uck!!!! Sputter!

We are up and ready to go!

Wagging our tails has hard as we can (I only have a tiny stump but it wags just fine, Thank you) we follow Mom to the back of the pick-up truck and wait while she unlocks the tail gate. Then she first lifts me up…I’m always first! Always! I’m the oldest and the smartest and the First at all things ….always! Then she picks up Boomer and puts him in the back. (She has to pick up Boomer so he doesn’t hurt his knee again. Remember his knee blew out a while back. It’s healed now, but Mom doesn’t want ‘another’ accident to happen to his knee)

We are OFF!

First bunch! (I thought Mom said we were going up to the sweet corn patch BEFORE it got hot!)

My heavens, this is miserable…pant, pant, slurp, pant, pant

“You boys want down?”

What!?!?! You kidding? You put us down and we might have to walk home. It’s hot already…I’m not walking home in this heat!

“We are almost done, Guys! Only a few more, I can see the end of the row finally.”

Hey, Fuzzy! I’m glad it’s only 6 in the morning, it’s hot already. Can you imagine what 9 or 10 would have been like?

Mom’s just as hot as us, Boom. We’ll just stick it out a little longer I can’t imagine she will continue to stay out here.

DONE!!! Yippee! Heading home again!

Hey, Fuzz!

Yeah?

Who cares if it was hot…the ride up and back is just the

BEST!!!

You got that right, Boomer!

You gotta do a little sweat’n to have a whole lot of fun!

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer—Out for a Ride

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Dayphoto

We went for a ride!

Boom and I love to go for rides!

Dad was needing a break and Mom said she needed a rest.

The little ones didn’t care, just as long as it was with all of us!

So off we went – the oldest grandchildren went to visit friends and the youngest wanted to go to Confluence Park and the merry-go-round park.

Boomer and I found the geese very thrilling. We get geese out on the farm, but they always fly away when we show up. These just walked around with one eye on us and one on the lake. Mom said for us to be very careful as geese have a wicked pinch!!!

At the Merry-go-Round Park Dad decided he needed a rest so he took one while the littlest tyke wound herself up and up and up.

After supper the folks took the little ones to play Miniature Golf

And eat ice Cream.

Boomer and I stayed home. While the folks are away we get to do whatever we want…right now it is chasing raccoon’s out of the sweet corn patch!!

Hey….Boom….I smell a raccoon………………..ARF, Bark, Wooooo, horrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooo

Thankfully I can still give chase…man I love chasing raccoons!

See ya,

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer—Our Trip to Turkey

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Dayphoto

Sorry we are late!

We had the trip of a lifetime…a really cool adventure!

Uncle Spike asked us to come to Turkey as guest bloggers.

Boomer and I have JUST NOW GOT BACK! If you would like to see our post—-please go here! Fuzzy told me a cool story about dogs that lived here in our part of Colorado hundreds of years ago. It was lots of fun!

You might just join up with all of the Uncle Spike followers as we learn about every day life, every day farming life, in Turkey.

Exhausted but happy,

Fuzzy and Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer—A Report of the Land

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Dayphoto

Boomer—Reporter @ Large That’s me! The official reporter for the Farm. Our Colorado Farm, that is! Mom and I have been working in the hay field…whew! It’s a bazillion degrees out there! Mom told Fuzzy he really needed to stay home and hold down the fort. He needed to stay where it was cool and nice. (I told Fuzzy he was actually lucky, it was miserable out there. He didn’t believe me. But it was, it really was!) That evening Mom brought Fuzzy along with us to change water…the corn is starting to tassel out…see the little ears…each one of those silky brown things hanging on the ear will soon be pollinated by the corn tassel creating a golden juicy kernel of corn goodness. (This is NOT sweet corn, this is hard dent corn used for animal feed and for making corn meal—Mom does have sweet corn for the house, but it is just for our use, not to sell.) Blade came over and spent the night with us. We all went with Dad to check on a house… Mom and Blade rode in the back of the pick-up with Fuzzy and I…we had a BLAST! Fuzzy and I have a toad that lives UNDER our dog houses in a cool little hole/tunnel thingy. He comes out in the evening or whenever Mom is watering. I like to put my nose on him and feel his funny skin…feels sorts of cool and leathery like Fuzzy’s nose! Sometimes I still forget to come when Mom calls: ‘HEAD Home, Boomer! We are heading home now! Hurry Up Come ON!’ When that happens I run LIKE THE WINNNNNNNNNND! Just as fast as my Beagle legs can take me….so far I’ve been able to catch up and ride the rest of the way. Mom always stops and lets me get on the Four-Wheeler. Always.Yesterday we had a huge thunder storm complete with lightening and rain. It got Mom and Fuzzy and I wet since we were out checking the water when the wind blew it up. We knew it was around as we could see the crash and flash of the lighting; we still had to check water so out we went. WET! Very wet! But it did feel nice! (Mom and Dad hope we don’t get any more rain since there are still 100 bales out in the field…the bales have to dry in the field ‘now’ before they can be hauled into the stack.) Thanks for reading…I think I’ll take myself off and have a little lay-down. We’ve been up and doing since 5 in the morning. I need to catch a little shut-eye before we head back up to check the tubes. Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer—Summer

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Dayphoto

It’s the good old Summer-Time! Mom and Fuzzy and Sam and I are all happy, happy, happy!

Although, I’ve had a little set back…I got some Cheat Grass in my ears, it’s been a real mess. My ears are starting to heal now, but it was a bit of struggle there for some time….I still have one ear that’s infected, but we are gaining on the problem.

Sam the cat and I work with Mom wherever she is working.

Sam likes to ride in the wheelbarrow here and there, even if it is full of weeds and such. Me, not so much. Mom has put me up there; I always jump right out!

Fuzzy hangs out in his dog house lots when it get really HOT, or he lays under Dad’s pick-up. Sometimes he follows Mom around the yard, but not like he used to. That’s okay, Mom will say, as she stops and pets him on the way to or from…’if you don’t want to come to with me, I’ll be sure and go by you’! And so we do many, many times a day.

Mom and Dad loaded up a trailer load of metal to take to the crushing place…I wanted to go, but they didn’t invite me. Sigh!

Guess what!!!!

Last night we saw frogs on the ditch bank! Scared the fur right off me!! They were hoping here and there and everywhere! I had to give one a great sniff…that’s when he plopped right into the water and peaked out behind a weed!

Dad, Mom and I gave a big laugh! I haloooooooooooooed at the frog, but it didn’t really do anything…just stayed still. I guess he felt safe right there.

Fuzzy missed out on the whole bit of excitement, ‘cause he was waiting back on the four-wheeler. When I told him…he looked a little green, but then decided it was okay. He would have had to get down and walk the whole long, long way down the cement ditch to see the frogs—-and he said it just wasn’t worth the walk.

We all rode home in the growing night. We took the long way home.

Wind in your fur and bugs in your teeth!

NICE!!

Have a Great Summer Day Everyone!

Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday—Puppies!!!

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Dayphoto

Sorry My Internet has been down until just now!

I really don’t know what to say…………… there are now puppies in the family!

PUPPIES!!!

YIKES!!!!Fuzzy and I really do not know what to think about all these…PUPPIES!

OH! Wait! You don’t know. They are NOT my puppies!

NO!

They may look like me

But they aren’t! These two little girls are Treeing Walker Coonhounds.

They belong to our oldest sister’s boyfriend. Since Jason goes to work each day, Lucy and Dotty go to the little kid’s (and Hank Puff’s) house to play and play and play.

Sometimes the kids and their Momma come up and bring the puppies so Fuzzy and I can play with them.

I think you know how Fuzzy and I feel about that!

Fuzzy pretty much hides under the pick-up truck and sleeps, I try to ignore them. BUT I do get concerned they might get more hugs and pets and loves than I do, so I hang out and well…let them get to know me.

Reluctantly…I might add.

It is hot here 97* yesterday…but this is coming!

(Shamelessly stolen from the internet.)

I’m with Mom about winter…give us Spring, Summer, and Fall all year long and we will be happy! That’s why I have a thin coat…I’m not a winter dog at all!!!

Sigh! The PUPPIES are here………….sigh!

I have to go.

Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday—Happy 4th of July!

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Dayphoto

(Cleaning the mud out before the water gets there. Weeds grow fast in the mud and suck up the water and slow the water down.)

Today is the 4^th of July! Fuzzy and I have puppy feet today! First thing we did a go change the water…Dad has water here and there and everywhere!

I jumped into every mud ditch I could find—heheheheh—makes Mom have to ride with a muddy paws and a muddy belly Beagle!!!

HAHAHAH!

I just give her a great big grin and waggle my tail back and forth in very happy bursts. (When I do that she never gets mad at me!)

Mom put Fuzzy down for a spell, but he said he really wanted back up on the 4-wheeler so she put him back up. He told me the air is better up there…he can smell the breezes and get all the news.

There is a sickle moon right now! Mom was out taking photos of it, she said she would like to take photos of the moon in all its stages. Hey, whatever works for you, Mom! Fuzzy and I are up for anything…well just about anything. Fuzzy says he isn’t up for going to the groomers.

(That’s my tail—that white spot in the field)

Dad’s alfalfa has really grown…it’s taller than I am now, just my tail gives my position away, it won’t be long when I can get news in the alfalfa field and Mom and Dad won’t be able to see me! Chuckle, snerk!

(This was me in the field two weeks ago)

We had thunder storms roll in yesterday afternoon. Fuzzy was in a panic…THUNDER!!! Crack! THUNDER!

Mom and Dad sat outside under the tin roof and let the hot air cool around them, then the rain splattered down; the thunder rumbled. Fuzzy and I laid right at Mom’s feet. Fuzzy must have felt secure enough because he went right to sleep. When I noticed he was sleeping I got up and moved over a short ways and took a little snooze myself.

Later, after the storms moved on, Mom and Fuzzy and I took some photos of the bean field.

(And not a weed in site!

(Yep the corn is going to make before frost–it more than ‘knee-high by the 4th of July”_

Then the little family came over and Mom got our annual photo of the corn.

Fuzzy and I didn’t want to get in the corn with Hank and everyone; we sat right by Mom as she took the photos. Even though Dad and the kids called us we didn’t want to go into the corn. Dad doesn’t like us in the corn until it starts to tassel out! We were told that enough we BELIEVE it…………….DO NOT GO IN THE CORN…you will break the little stalks! And there they were….all of them IN THE CORN!!!

Once it tassels out Dad doesn’t care — then I run down all the rows checking out the new, but NOT NOW!!!

Nope not now! So I stayed with Fuzzy who always stays right with Mom.

Anyway! Fuzzy and I, Sammy-Sam the Cat, and Monkey the Cat, and yes Mom and Dad wish all of you a HAPPY 4^TH of JULY!!!

Boomer—Reporter at Large!

Happy Birthday to Me–Fuzzy–June 26, 2014

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Dayphoto

This month I turned Fourteen! How cool is that! Everyday has been a great birthday day! Mom gives me special treats because she isn’t really sure what exact day is my day of birth.

Boomer and go everywhere with Mom…I MEAN EVERYWHERE!!!

We went swimming down in the Roubidoux River one day (all of Shannon’s pack went with us) Boomer doesn’t like to swim so he had to hang on the side of the river with Mom. Mom doesn’t swim either.

Then Dad took us up to the lake on Twenty Five Mesa, which is on the Uncompahgre Plateau…that was more than way cool.

Right now we are helping Dad fix the swather…second cutting of hay is coming up so the swather has to be ready to cut.

I hang out in the shade of the four-wheeler and Boomer searches out the news

At one point Mom had to go back over to the house to get some tools for Dad…Mom called for Boomer, but he ignored her!

We even stopped and talked to Hank Puff. We didn’t stay long because Dad was waiting.

Boomer didn’t come when Mom called so I got to ride all the way back BY MY SELF!!!! HEHEHEHEHEH!!!

That’s the sickle bar.

We also go irrigating every time…all the time.

See I sit on the four-wheeler while Mom and Dad do the work. What we are waiting for is the extra water from the other field to make it down to this field. Dad and Mom set up many little dams so the siphon tubes have enough water to suck the water from the cement ditch into the field. Dad has water in the alfalfa field (in this photo) and part of the water in one of the corn fields, and the rest of the water (as it is starting to leave our place) in the pinto bean field. My folks work at using (never wasting) any of the water that comes onto the place.

The water costs more than the taxes for the farm so they are V.E.R.Y. careful to not waste the water. Once the water makes it through our place it heads back into the canal and goes to the next farm just across the road from us.

The sky (last night) looked like we just might get a rain storm. We didn’t.

That works for me…I don’t like thunder and lightening storms.

Well, Dad had a meeting last night so it was just Mom, Boomer, and I to change the water.

I had to laugh out loud because this time when Mom called and said: “Let’s go, Boomer! Time to move on!”

Boomer took her seriously! He didn’t want to be left again like he was earlier today!

What a goofy pup he is! Still, no matter what, he is my Best Friend!

Outside of Mom, that is!

A Fourteen Year Old Farm Dog…and Proud of it!

Fuzzy Dude MacDoodle Brown

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday—We are Tired

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Dayphoto

Mom, Dad, Fuzzy and I are wore out!

Really wore out!

It’s been a long week…I mean L.O.N.G.!

The wind wore all of us down. It also wore out all the plants. Not only that; it was a hot wind. Really hot! And full of dirt!

So we had …hot, dirty, wind.

But there were some fun things too. Like going to change water all the time. (That is my most favorite thing in the world to do.)

Up there I found a cool snake! Mom was putting the trash catcher into the ditch and a green snake was in there with a Mouse in his Mouth! The snake dropped the mouse and it floated now the water. The snake tried to wiggle up the side and couldn’t make it. So Mom and Dad helped the snake out. It was really fun!!!!

How cool is THAT!!!

Sammy brought Mom a GIANT mouse one morning. Just purrrfect for breakfast, Mom! Sammy purred.

“What a good kitty you are Sammy-Sam!” Mom gave Sammy lots of loves and pats. Fuzzy told Sam that he would have just snapped the thing in two and left it where he found it.

Sammy just purred back to Fuzzy… Yes, Fuzzy, you would have. But Mom wouldn’t know so you wouldn’t get any pets.

HA!

Shish, fumed Fuzzy. I didn’t think of that.

Then the wind blew down a HUGE branch! It was a giant job!

It took lots of work…Fuzzy and I helped Mom load all the little branches into the back of the pick-up. Then we rode with Bladen and Mom up the Coyote Hill to dump the broken limbs off into a big pile. Misty and the kids picked up the big chunks Dad cut off the HUGE branch, (Kelly was at work but when he came home from lunch he also helped).

When we got everything down to just the colossal limbs Dad came back down with the tractor. And Mom came back with the trailer.

Once we all got to the tractor part Fuzzy and I had to just wait until Mom and Dad to chain up the logs and load them onto the trailer. Then we rode up to the Coyote Hill with Mom in the pick-up pulling the trailer; Dad following with the tractor.

DONE! A huge pile to rot away on Coyote Hill!

After the last irrigation of the day Mom and Dad sat down outside with us and just gave a huge sigh, “Friday we are taking the day off,” Dad said.

Of course that really won’t happen, but the work will slow down to just what has to get done.

Sometimes a rest is necessary. You have a little rest today (everything will be there tomorrow)…those of us on our Colorado Farm plan on doing so!

Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday—Full Moon on Friday the 13th

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Dayphoto

Hey, FUZZY!!! Wake-up, Fuzzy! Today is Friday the 13^th! Not only is it Friday the 13^th we have a FULL MOON— TONIGHT!!!

YIPPEE!!!

We won’t be alive the next time this comes along, in fact Mom and Dad won’t be alive…it won’t happen again until Friday,

August 13^th 2049!

How very cool is this!!

Hummmmmmmmmm, snort, skurkle….wha, what, Boomer?

Full Moon, Fuzzy! AND IT’S FRIDAY THE 13^th!

Last year we had three Fridays the 13^th’s but this year there is only ONE and there is a Full Moon with it!

Hey, that is pretty neat! What do you think we should do tonight, Boomer?

Lots of people are really suspicious over dates like this, but I don’t see any reason to be nervous, Fuzzy. Heck, what bad thing can happen?…the sky is full of bright silver light, we will get to go with a walk with Mom in the moonlight and it’s really warm so we won’t be bothered by the cold at all.

Okay, Boom…let’s get to going:

First let’s holler over to Hank and let him know it what today is.

Okay…
Bark, Bark, HOWWWLLLLLLL! HEY! HANK!!! GUESS WHAT TONIGHT IS?

WOOF! WOOF!

Bark, Yip, yap….repeat and repeat again and again and again.

Oh, this is good, Pepper is on the line…HEY, PEPPER…You Know what tonight is…..?

Oh! BOOTS is joining in…Welcome, Boots…guess what tonight is?

Hey, this is really cool everybody in the neighborhood is talking on the dog telephone!

Let’s tell the Coyotes….Every dog in the neighborhood…yipping and yelling!

“You soft as marshmallow house dogs…what do you think you are doing bother us real DOGS? You are just pretend dogs. Snarl, growl,

Whooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

OOPS….MOM JUST CAME OUT and MADE US COME INTO THE HOUSE!

Shhhhhhhhhhh, she said

Pant, pant, puff, pant….sit by Mom’s bed and act like your are suffocating Fuzzy, so we can get back outside…after all TIME IS A WASTING!“Oh, alright…go on back out. But be quiet!!!” Mom warned as she let us out the back door.

RACCOON, FUZZY! LET’S GO GET HIM!!!

AWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

BAM!!!! OW!!!! Boomer! I tripped and fell and bloodied my nose.

Darn thing, just won’t stop bleeding!

YIKES! SKUNK ——————– BOOMER!!! Slow down, boy! There is a skunk by the grain bin!

Hey, dogs….chitter, chatter, squeak…you can’t catch me

GET HIM BOOM!!!! Get the raccoon!!

Come on Fuzzy…he’s heading to the old tree by the canal
Put y’er brakes on Boom…he’s gone. We’ll never get him up the tree.

Okay, Fuzzy. Let’s see if there is anything else out here. We haven’t been this far up the ditch bank for several days…..sniff, sniff, snuff…do you smell anything, Fuzzy?

Nope, not very good, my nose is stuffed up. But I do think I can smell those two cats from the neighbor way over the way. They passed here about an hour ago.

10. Boy, the moonlight is sure bright. Hummmmmmmmmmmm oh, yes…ahhhhh…ooooooooo, this is really nice. Come on, Fuzzy…you are going to like this.

11.Ah…no…I don’t think so, Boomer. That’s just something I really don’t like.

12. Ummmm. Listen….Mom is out…she’s calling us to go for her mid-night walk. Well, I guess, tonight it more like her two in the morning walk… Listen, Boom…we gotta go!

Okay, Fuzzy….just a dollop more. Mom, is going to love me! Just wait until she smells this great perfume….roll, wiggle, squiggle, squirm…yes! I’m ready to go, Fuzzy.

Come on then, Mom is heading our way…we’ will intercept her at the bend in the road.

13. “YUCK! Boomer! What in the world did you roll in?” Mom GAGGED! (Actually, Mom almost puked)… “Boomer! UGH!”

But it is really nice, Mom. Really, just take a good whiff…see you do like it.

MOM!!! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

She went back into the house, Boomer. I’ll bet you get to have a bath in the morning.

WHAT! And lose my great perfume?

Darn, I guess a full moon on Friday the 13^th does bring some sort’a bad luck.