Saved Hen(s) —- Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Dayphoto

These are two (saved from a rooster) hens

Fuffy thinks it’s cold outside 🙂

I’ve had them for over a year now and just last week they decided it was safe to go outside.

The tall one with the long flowing comb was in the worst shape. He rode her to completely featherless with a bloody comb, and deep scratches on her back.

I have just the two of them. Their feathers are back now and they feel safe enough to go outside. For months I would leave the door open so they could go wander around; they preferred the hen house and the chicken run.

I think they were terrified there was a rooster outside waiting for them.

Then suddenly, Skitter (the tall one) went outside.

She still gets frightened easily so I only open the door for three hours in the late afternoon.

Still, we are making progress.

They feel safe, I get two eggs a day (most days) and they have the run of the hen house, the chicken run, and now wee, small adventures outdoors.

No farm is complete without a hen or two. 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

A Good Day’s Work — Monday, February 14, 2022

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Dayphoto

Help arrived!

Cliff and Kimber (our son-in-law and daughter)

Came to help Terry and I start the other side of the roof.

It’s always very nice to have help!

One part of the re-roofing done!

YAY!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

In Everyday, No Matter What the Trouble — Sunday, February 13, 2022

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Dayphoto

Look for the joy!

From TLC Cai-Cai and Myself—to your heart!

Linda

The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Farm Life Series Chapter 9, The Second Season, Spring, Means WIND, Friday, February 11, 2020

Posted on February 11, 2022 by Dayphoto

Yes! It! Does! All the Time! WIND!

It starts around the last week of February or the first week in March. And it doesn’t stop blowing.

Oh. That maybe a bit of a stretch, but, I think you get it.

Mom is silly. She likes the wind. Well, most wind.

She doesn’t like the kind of wind that picks up buildings and flings them here and there.

But she does like the kind of wind that lifts her hair off her head and flinging it everywhichwayandup.

Mom is crazy.

Just say’n.

TLC Cai-Cai

That Place You Call Home — Thursday, February 10, 2022

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Dayphoto

That wonderful force pulling your heart

Spilling life into eternity

God always gives us Home, if you just listen.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Wednesday—-Farm Life Series Chapter 8, The Second Season, Spring, Means Rain, Wednesday, February 9, 2020

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Dayphoto

Well, as you found out I am talking to you about our weather. For now, in this post, we have now moved to Spring (although, it IS NOT Spring right now. Just for this wee report on the weather here on the farm)

Spring weather is busy weather. Always. That is why I told you about all the ‘work’ on the farm…work is a type of weather, you see. All that tooing and froing brings a sorta wind to everything.

Spring brings all the songbirds back so that (yum, slurp, lick) the whole world sounds like BIRDS!

Also, it’s time to say goodbye to those BIG birds. They rise up one day and point south in a huge arrow, call GOOD-BYE to Mom. Mom waves goodbye to them; throws a kiss, tells them safe journey, and come back again. The farm is always waiting for them.

And they are —- gone!

But for REAL Spring weather we turn to RAIN!

Good ole make your fur so wet it takes three hours of constant licking to ever get dry again.

Mom pets me and tells me…rain is good, TLC Cai-Cai, it cleans the earth, washes everything new, and helps all the plants grow and turn green.

Mom doesn’t understand how TIRED my tongue gets.
Just say’n.

TLC Cai-Cai

Daylight Comes Earlier Now —- Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Dayphoto

The whisper of the possible sun starts lighting the sky around 6:30 in the morning

With the sun breaking through the mountains around 7:10 or so.

The joy of MORE DAYLIGHT!!!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

To Know the Earth as Poetry (Victoria Erickson) — Monday, February 7, 2022

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Dayphoto

“Some of us don’t want to be tough alpha leaders. Some of us just want to write and wander the garden and breathe in the sky and nourish and nurture and quietly create new pathways and live our lives as our art. To know the earth as poetry.” — Victoria Erickson, Author, Rhythms and Roads

From my heart to your heart,

Linda

A Silent Rush of Nothing, Really — Sunday, February 6, 2022

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Dayphoto

Just the every day of each and every day

As time moves forward and onward

Counting the days one by one …

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Farm Life Series Chapter 7, The Second Season, Spring, Farm Work, Friday, February 4, 2020

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Dayphoto

First…yes, each and every time…first is Dad getting one of the tractors out and hooking it up to something. More than likely to the disk.

Then he uses the disk, after which he will plow, then roll, then level, then mark out.

Yep…each and every day in each and every field Dad will do this.

ALL except to the alfalfa field. That requires something different.

In-between all that ‘tractor work’ Dad will figure out something he wants to do BEFORE everything gets too busy.

There will be — hauling stuff to the dump,

or hauling a load to the metal buying place, or maybe even finishing up something he started in the winter.

Spring gets to be B.U.S.Y!

In the meantime, when Mom isn’t helping Dad do something, Mom is getting her yard ready for Spring. This means, raking EVERYTHING, spading up the ground where she wants to plant something new,