Although Delta proper got snow, we didn’t
By noon the wind was fierce and wicked and BABY IT IS COLD to work out in
The trees groaned and clattered, drop some limbs, and generally were miserable in the nasty gale.
By the time the sun glowingly sat…everything was clean and sparkly.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
By the end of February Dad is getting pretty excited to start farming. Why even some of the other farmers…the BIG GUYS… have started. It all depends on the frost in the ground, or not in the ground.
Dad and Mom have been busy ‘doing stuff’ most of January and most of February. This stuff usually consists of whatever it takes to make the FARMING SEASON go smooth.
Sometime in late March or April, the Apricot trees will start to bloom.
Mom says LATE APRIL, please. If you must bloom make it LATE APRIL!
You see there are still many, many cold nights and days that kill things that burst forth into robustious blooms.
A cold snap (or a terrible freeze) doesn’t seem to hurt the trees or the leaves (or lack thereof) on the trees, but it does take a huge whack out of the blossoms!
First, there are lovely sweet-smelling flowers and BAM! They are brown and dead and fall off the trees.
Of course, that also means there is no fruit to can later on.
Anyway, by the time March comes roaring in (we hope it roars in not out)
Mom and Dad are farming—
Which isn’t weather, but still…it is SPRING!
TLC Cai-Cai
While evening brings peace
Morning brings exhilaration
The comfort of ‘things to do’ and ‘things to get done”.
The satisfaction of daily movement — creating a day filled with production.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The silence of shadows
The cows busily eating and a bird over head
Silence called peace as the solar lights come on
in the darkening of the day.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Thanks to our son-in-law, Cliff
For coming out and helping Terry
Thereby actually giving Terry someone who will/and did CLIMB up on the roof
one side officially completed (with trim and everything)
We will work on the other side as soon as the cows get out.
I will paint the old doors white and the trim…as soon as the air warms a bit more.
Gosh, this is nice!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Mom says snow is one of those weather things that is—well, a person had mixed feelings about. (Cats don’t have mixed feelings about snow…just so you know.)
Snow is beautiful to look at.
Snow is necessary to have water…. water to drink,
water to irrigate with, and for the land —it nourishes the roots of all the plants…weeds, and good plants.
Sometimes we get blizzards. I’ve really never seen a blizzard, but I have been in the WIND full of SNOW!!! Mom says THAT is a blizzard!
When a cat (or a person) is in a blizzard there is so much snow and wind you can’t see ANYTHING!!
Nothing! It’s scary.
AND YOUR FUR GETS VERY, VERY WET!!!!
That’s when I meow to come inside and stay inside.
I let Mom and Dad go outside and do all those ‘outside’ things they like to do.
After the snow ends…then we start one of a couple of different types of Winter—SO COLD YOUR PAWS STICK TO THE GROUND or Mud Season.
I don’t know which is worse. Mom calls horrible cold an inversion. She says it is pretty. And it does kill all the nasty bugs, but oh, my is it ever cold!
Then there is everyone’s dreaded season—melt. Snowmelt. When that happens, you get MUD!
On your paws, where you have to take your teeth and pull it out, on your lovely fur, where Mom gets a wet rag and washes you all over–
and MUD ON MY TAIL! Horrors!
Then there is mud on shoes, boots, in the house from the back porch to the stool where the shoes and boots are removed.
Mud season is pretty messy.
That is for sure!
TLC Cai-Cai
It’s the tiny moments of life, which make our lives so much more than those overwhelming BIG things.
It’s really those tiny moments which whisper—-shhhh—all will be well.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Wind is the worst!
Mom says Wind in the Winter is the worst, she rather likes wind any other time.
Wind in the Winter is COLD!
I agree with her! Wind in the Winter is horrible, terrible, and bad!
It snaps the trees, throws tree branches every which way,
picks up all the weeds, and flings them in your face, not to mention…what it does to a CAT!
There are warm fuzzy covers for dogs, and humans have hats, gloves, and hooded jackets to put under big thick heavy coats and socks and boots and…. well, you get the picture.
Cats, now…they don’t get any of that stuff. Just think what a cold nasty wind can do to trees and weeds, now think of what wind does to cats!!!
TLC Cai-Cai
There is always—-and I do mean ALWAYS!
One.
But in this case (this year) There are TWO!
So annoying!
These two walk over the fences like the fences aren’t even there!
At least twice a day!
Such a pain!
I looked back, as Terry and I were pushing the cows back into the field and saw TLC helping us.
What a cat!
WHAT NAUGHTY COWS!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Here is a wee walk-about
Showing to you, that old, old story,
Of the silence, which is really not silent
of the beauty of our each and every day.
That sense of timelessness
Of marvelous and easy grace
Casting a tiny spell of contentment
A sense of wonder
Of daily life on our farm.
🙂
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 