The Sky is falling!
THE SKY IS FALLING!
Oh, good heavens…just chill out. The sun is warm the wood is warm…nothin….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
THE SKY IS FALLING — Monday, March 14, 2022
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Category Archives: Life on a Colorado Farm
Criss-Crossing the Land — Sunday, March 13, 2022
The last of the Canada geese left a few days ago.
They made a brief stop on the farm, spending the night among the Sandhill Cranes.
Then left early morning in a flutter of wings and loud calls of– follow me.
Come again, Come Again. You help make the winter be not so long.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—Farm Life Series, Chapter 17, The Fourth Season, HARVEST, Friday, March 11, 2022
Fall is Harvest!
Harvest is Autumn!
This is the time of year when HUGE! GIANT! Machines come out and roar and rumble on the farm.
Scares me to death!
I run to the house and stay INSIDE!
While in the house I look out the windows at those scary machines.
When they aren’t there…whew! Life is good again.
But…here is the thing…Dad even brings that HUGE scary machine into the yard and works on it at the shop.
That machine is FRIGHTENING!
Well, that is all I know about Harvest. It is all I know about the seasons and weather and stuff like that.
I think the next thing I will tell you about is the wildlife that lives with me, Mom, and Dad on the farm.
Maybe you will enjoy learning about coyotes, porcupines, rabbits, snakes, badgers, weasels, owls, squirrels…you get the picture.
All the animals that live with us on the farm.
TLC Cai-Cai
Sometimes I Think I am Un-Raveling —Thursday, March 10, 2022
Then I got an email, from a very long, long-time blog reader and wonderful friend.
“I am sending you a book”, she wrote among other kind and loving words.
IT CAME!
I love Mary Oliver’s poems!
Love them!
Thank you so much CRay!
We might (you and I) un-ravel once in a while. As Mary Oliver says so beautifully.
Being in and of the earth is healing.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Wednesday—Farm Life Series, Chapter 16, The Fourth Season, Fall, or Autumn, Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Something that happens in the Fall, is a true mystery to me.
The birds leave!
All the Summer Song Birds!
There is not one left.
Although, we do have some birds who stay here, but they aren’t the same sweet tasting sounding birds of Summer. Boy, don’t let Mom know I wrote that…I crossed it out so she can’t see. Do NOT tell her! Eating birds is something that ALWAYS gets me in trouble.
If Mom sees my catch one, she runs very fast and scares me so I drop the bird. Then Mom grabs the bird and takes it someplace where I can’t find it.
Mom and I have a thing about Me eating birds!!!
Anyway, the birds leave.
And lots of bugs seem to leave, although those nasty wasps seem to stay year-round.
And Spiders.
We never get rid of spiders. I got a spider bite so bad Mom had to take me to the vet.
Anyway, the next installment will be the WORK of AUTUMN!
TLC Cai-Cai
The Silent Ways of Our Earth — Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Sometimes I need an answer…
Something beyond what I know.
I need a sense of peace; filled with hope.
I need an answer or at least a direction
I can imagine…
You, too, have that awful need seeping in you and around you at times.
Then the circle completes itself and there is understanding and a way forward— again.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
The Balm of BEING ON THE FARM — Monday, March 7, 2022
Now that the cows have gone, the Equines get the run of the farm
So much fun! This opportunity to race across the acres
And munch and munch on the sprigs of green starting to show here and there.
A Happy Way of Being!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
SHHHHHHHHH, Sit Quietly with Me, Please —-Sunday, March 6, 2022
Sit quietly with me please
Watching the Sandhill Cranes picking through the cow poop
Watch in silence; no one likes to be disturbed at breakfast.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—Farm Life Series, Chapter 15, The Fourth Season, Fall, or Autumn, Friday, March 4, 2022
Fall announces itself with the first, very cooling, very refreshing rain. That can happen anytime after September into October.
You see, September is still HOT here. Maybe not as hot as October, but it still is warm enough Mom is singing a happy song.
As September drifts along (yes, Dad and I think September moves slowly, the nights start to cool down, then the days get slightly cooler until we get to OCTOBER!
Now if you were to look upon the mountains surrounding our mesa you could see the ‘Colors starting to change. Seeing the colors change means for certain and sure we are in AUTUMN!
By the last Sunday of September, the colors in the mountains are ‘at their peak’ causing everyone who lives below the colors to ‘take a drive’. To see the colors, as they say.
Here on the farm, September means the last of the irrigation is being accomplished. First, one cornfield is finished up (Dad watches the corn kernels to see how hard they are—if they are hard, hard, hard that means the corn can not take in any more water. The plant is done. Finished for the growing season. To keep watering is just a waste of time and effort.) Then the next cornfield and so on, until all the cornfields are DONE for THE Year!
After that, all irrigation is concentrated on the alfalfa fields.
Alfalfa has a GREAT BIG TAPROOT, that must have a nice drink of water to go into the winter. Or the plant will die. Also, Dad likes for the alfalfa plant to have a nice growth on top, several inches of growth to help the plant survive.
After a heavy freeze comes then the plant is sleeping safely for next year. That is when the cows arrive to munch down the alfalfa leaves.
Anyway, back to Autumn. Autumn comes here when all the Cottonwoods turn to gold, the days are warm (NOT HOT) and the nights are cool.
As October progresses to November Mom starts hauling in firewood to make warm toasty fires in the evening.
Oh, yes. Fall smells good. The weeds are drying down, the trees are dropping their leaves, the sporadic rains cleanse the earth.
Fall. It also means HARVEST!
We will leave Harvest for the next installment of the Seasons. Along with more of my thoughts on weather.
Until then—
TLC Cai-Cai
March Has Arrived — Thursday, March 3, 2022
Spring isn’t far off now
I can see it in the shadows.
Whispering of more sun, warmer days
Winter’s landscape gradually changing!
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
