The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Boy, It’s Cold

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Dayphoto

And I do mean cold!

It’s so cold I can hardly stand to be outside!

Although, (yes you guessed it) Mom does make me go outside WITH her!

We always have to bundle up…Mom and I.

First Mom gets ready.

I just watch her…there is a slim chance I won’t have to go out if she is going out….If I just stay here by the fire she will forget me!

She doesn’t ever forget me!

Ever!

So after she gets her jacket on, then her boots, then the big Carhart, and BEFORE the gloves she CALLS me…

“Come on Boom, it’s time to go outside. We have lots of work to do and you need to help.”

I try to squish down on the floor and well, just melt into the carpet so she can’t see me.

It never works! I get…

“BOOM! Come on now, we have to go outside!”

So I slink over to her with a big cheesy grin on my face and my tail whapping the air…

“Here you go, Boomer!”

BAM!

It’s done! I have my coat on and we have go out into the frigid air…it was 3* this morning when she so rudely wanted to go outside and check on the chickens and the turkey and gather wood and feed the wild birds and well, tons of other stuff…

Guess what!!?

The coat does keep me warm and being outside is really nice…there are always lots of smells and things to see and do…

I guess Mom does know what keeps a Beagle happy!

Sometimes it’s more than a nice fire, or a snuggly blanket…it is a WARM COAT!!

Well, it’s 18* out there right now and Fuzzy and I are going for a walk to the combines…I smelled Freddy Fox’s footprints and came back and told Fuzzy. He loves to go for walks; he just has to go slow. I don’t mind going slowly (after I search everything out first).

Fuzzy is a buddy ever more.

(Oh, by the way…Fuzzy still likes to sleep outside. Mom goes out and gets him and MAKES him come into the house for the night. I think Fuzzy is really part Siberian Husky.

Brrr!

Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — The Living is Easy

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Dayphoto

We had snow!

Lots and lots of snow!

Then it turned to rain, which turned to mud!

Lately we have been having fog full of frozen crystals, then the sun comes out, then the fog comes back…days of this.

Fuzzy and I don’t mind!

Really we don’t.

We help Mom out…we decorated the tree, hung some light on the porch, helped cook meals…although that always gets us banished to ‘the other room’.

That is what Mom always says when she starts making those yummy smells from the kitchen… “Out boys, you have to go to the other room now!”

So we do…

Going to the other room is okay doaky also…HEAT!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!

So it’s okay what goes on outside, for Fuzz and I…………….THE LIVING IS EASY!

OH!!
WAIT!!

I just about forgot.

Remember when I was new to the farm and I was terrified of the tractor and loader…

You have GOT to see this!!!

Chaco and Balou meet the COMBINE!!! (Turn your head so you can watch, it was taken with Shannon’s cell phone and Mom doesn’t know how to fix the video so it’s upside right)

Fuzzy and I rolled on the ground! After all it is just a combine!!

Mom told us that wasn’t funny, after all she reminded me I was afraid of the tractor when I first got here!

Oh, well!

Back to all the warm heat from the wood stove!

Just hang’n around and enjoying winter!

Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Sandhill Cranes

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Dayphoto

“THEY HAVE ARRIVED!!!!”

“OOOOOOOOOOOOO”

“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

“MOM! THEY ARE HERE!!”

“Come on Fuzzy lets go see the Sandhill Cranes!!!!!”

“Bark, bark, woof….bark, yap, yap, Bark!”

“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

“BOYS!!! What is going on?”

“The cranes are here…come on Mom…hurry!!”

“Oh good she is out here and she has her camera!!”

“Slow” Mom said. “We have to be really calm now and walk slowly without any talking. Ever so softly and silently” Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

“Sit here boys, that’s right…very careful now. Let me sit with you…shhhhhhhhh.” “Good”

“How nice we did it!”

“Come on lets go back in…it’s starting to snow! We’ll come out again and see if we can get more photos…maybe when they are flying or dancing!”

“Boomer, stay close now, no leaving my side.”

“Good boys! Good!”

YIPPEE!!! We did it! We let Mom know when the birds arrived and she was able to get lots of photos!

AND WE GOT DOG COOKIES!!!

Boomer and Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — The Car Wash

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Dayphoto

Mom took us to the car wash!!!

I super love the car wash!!!

First off we got in the back of the pick-up and headed to town…that in and of itself if just W.O.N.D.E.R.F.U.L!

Lots of great smells, things to see (in a flash), dogs to bark at along the way and WIND IN YOUR FACE!!!!

Then we got there!

YIPPEE!!!

Mom got out and put us up front! Once she did that we KNEW something really neat was about to happen—most of the time we ride in the back, unless it’s winter. But it isn’t winter right now and we were already in town.

She then drove us over to the car wash spot. She drove real slooooooooow to the door; we had to wait for the car in front of us….

I COULD HARDLY WAIT! I LOVE the car wash!

Boomer says it’s not his favorite but he likes to be there with Mom and me.

Then we were inside

Oh! Good! Here it comes…first the water, that goes on for a couple of times, then the really creepy SOAP!

(The soap is the best part – I bark at the soap!)

Then more water, and more water, then stop for the blow dryer!

I think it’s funny that the truck gets a blow dry just like Boomer and I at the Groomers. That is the part I hate the worst at the Groomers…the BLOW DRYER! So I think it’s pretty neat the pick-up has to have a blow dryer also!

HAHAHAHAH

Done!

We drive for a ways, and then Mom stops and puts Boomer and me in the back again…

Wonderful!

(That’s water spots on the mirror, makes my eyes look just right for Halloween, don’t you think?)

We head for home!

I ADORE going to the car wash!

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Num-num-chew-Yummmmmm

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Dayphoto

It’s getting closer!!!

Dad came home and said the corn is 14.2% dry….we can begin!!!

Oh, wait! Not yet!

The Elevator guys said the farmers can’t bring in any corn until after the audit. Their audit will be done on the 30^th, so the corn can come in on the 31^st.

YIPPEE!!!

Fuzzy and I LOVE corn harvest. We work with Mom and we help Dad. There is always a reason to be going somewhere…out the field, in the big truck, (we don’t get to ride on the corn combine, but Mom does and of course Dad does.) But Fuzzy and I sit and wait at the end of the rows.

Er……..Fuzzy waits

NOT ME!!!! There is lots of news out there and I want to know what it is!

Dad says he will start combining on the 31^st and haul on the 1^st; too many farmers are loading and storing on the semi-s and the grain trucks already. This will make for a very long day at the dumping station that first day. Also, the Elevator guys say they are closing down at 2 on that first day (meaning they will close the gate at 2:00 p.m. …if your truck is in the gate and washed you can stay and unload, if not you have to come back first thing (5:00 in the morning) the next day.

Dad says it takes a couple or so days before everyone gets into a routine. Always it’s a race against time…you can’t combine until the dew is off the corn, then you combine until the dew sits on….way into the night. The trucks go down, sit in line and wait until their turn, then come back and get filled up and head back down…the combine goes up and down and up and down.

Hopefully before any type of storm comes in.

Fuzzy and I go where ever we can whenever we can.

Fuzzy-and-I

This is Fuzzy and Mom and I on the four-wheeler

Sun-in-the-eyes

This is me with the sun in my eyes… shish!

The cats don’t help….Monkey stays inside so her fur doesn’t get mess up and Sammy likes to hang out by the catnip. (Sure he does a good fair of hunting mice, but that doesn’t count. He doesn’t really HELP like Fuzzy and I 🙂 🙂 )

We went with Mom and Dad to town to take down a corn sample from another field so Dad knows which field to start on, and she wanted to get some milk.

We like sitting in the truck at the grocery store…lots of people and lots of really nice smells. Dad waited with us so someone wouldn’t try to take me…I’m way too friendly you see.

Mom got us some really yummy bones

Fuzzy took two….he doesn’t like to share, see how his paw is holding down one!

But I don’t care…I have TWO of my own!

Yummm,

Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — For One Day Only

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Dayphoto

Last week we had a huge ice storm, then Mom and Dad LEFT!!!

Mom talked to both of us and told us they were going on a little trip, they would be gone three days and two nights, but they WOULD BE BACK!!!

Then she petted us and gave us kisses on the nose and really nice back scratches and asked us to do a good job of taking care of everything while they were gone.

We gave Mom lots of kisses on her hand and arm and said we would.

It was a LONG TIME UNTIL THEY GOT BACK!

Three days is FOREVER!!!!!

Yes, Shannon came up and took us for walks with the our dog cousins, and Misty and the little kids came over and checked on us….

BUT IT JUST WASN’T THE BEST…………..

We needed Mom and Dad!

Then they were here! Yippee! Boomer laid all over Dad’s feet and I laid right by Mom’s chair until bedtime, then we both slept in the bedroom with OUR PEOPLE!

While they were gone we had another ‘gully-washer’ so none of us could go out and start putting the farm to bed.

Gradually the days dried out and then on the warmest day ever (and I do mean HOT) Mom and Boomer and I and DAD all went out to gather in the siphon tubes

and the roll-out ditches and to pick up all the orange dams. Then we got the metal dams and stored them also.

Dad checked the corn out…still to moist, maybe by Halloween the harvest will start.

Boomer checked out all the raccoon poop and foot prints.

Me?

I stayed with Mom. I always stay right with Mom wherever she is ALWAYS!

That’s my job!

Taking care of Mom!

It sure was HOT! Whew! After all the cold we’ve been having to have a normal temperature day was rather, well…WARM!

Coming back home we all trouped into the house—first Mom, then Boomer and then me.

Monkey at her normal spot

Then Dad came in and made lots of noise, he dropped something I don’t know what….and

SCARED MONKEY!!!

Tee Hee …we all laughed out-loud!

She didn’t think it was funny!

HAHAHAHAH

BUT WE DID!!!

Sure was a good day!

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Help

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Dayphoto

I HATE THIS DAY!!!

I HATE IT!!!

Mom says I smell so nice when I get home and it’s just for a little while, but

I
DO
NOT
CARE!!!

I don’t think I smell bad!

That is just in her mind!

Boomer says he really likes getting a bath! I think he is off his rocker!

I HATE THIS DAY!

Fuzzy!

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Fall Storm

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dayphoto

The day started like this…Boom was resting and resting and resting. But Mom came out and started putting all the lawn furniture away…off we trotted to the old unused grain bin…first Boomer’s favorite bed, then his second favorite bed, then Dad’s favorite chair…after that all the tables and the benches. Back and forth Boomer and I went with Mom. We are very good helpers!!

Then when Dad and Mom went off to finish Shannon’s fireplace

the wind started up…it blew me this way and that! That is one thing about wind I really don’t like my fur going here and there and everywhere!

Gradually the day started to end as the wind got worse and worse.

Boomer and I decided we were NOT spending the night in the dog houses….no sire! Not tonight!

Because the wind and the rain and the ice were bad all night!!!

We woke up to a very cold morning! Mom started a fire in the fireplace; we all toasted until I just got too hot and HAD to go outside!!!

Mom wonders if the snow and ice have finished off the apple harvest. Mom says she hopes not.

Anyway …

Boomer and have stuff to do, we are off (he is that dot in the weeds) to check out how the farm and our wild friends did last night in that bad storm. As you can see we are just cold here, the rain didn’t really wet anything down, just turned to ice. As the sun has come up it melted.

“I’ll take it!” bayed Boomer. “Give me sun any day!”

Me too…that was enough for a while!

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — We Are Late

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Dayphoto

We are late! Late, late, late as that white rabbit that needed to get down a rabbit hole!

Late I say!

LATE!

It’s been a busy morning. Fuzzy and I went to town with Mom and our sister Shannon and all our cousins…it was a BARK’N good time!!!!

We went several places.

I rode in the front seat in town, because you see…I will jump out sometimes so every time they stopped I had to sit in the front seat!

WORKS FOR ME!!!

Then when we got back we had to go get our other sister’s little critters as they are going to spend the weekend with us!

Then we HAD to go for a walk. We didn’t go by the canal as I fell in yesterday and just about couldn’t get out. My leg wouldn’t work. Shannon jumped in a saved me. I wasn’t good for much the rest of the day.

So today we went through the corn fields!

The smells were great!