Bloggers Unite for Peace

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Dayphoto

Uncles Spike said it best again: “We will not be separated or forced to cease our friendships.

We will not change our ways – we are happy as we are.

We are all different, and proudly so, and stand together as one.

We respect each other’s right to life.

We want to live in peace.”

Thanks, Uncle Spike!

Uncle Spike's Adventures

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.”

Edmund Burke

Here are some ways to add your support to this message of peace:

1) Publish the following statement on your own blog
2) Post a link to Twitter and/or Facebook
3) Reblog this post or any post that replicates this statement
4) Request to be added to the signatory list below by adding a comment or mailing uncle.spikes.adventures1@gmail.com

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We are normal, everyday hard-working people with a common hobby, blogging. We hail from far and wide. We reside in different lands, on different continents. We speak different languages, eat different foods, and are of varying ages, professions…

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The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—A Watchful Night

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Dayphoto

About 7:30 or so last night Mom and Dad got a phone call. I didn’t pay much attention to them getting a phone call—it happens all the time.

Mom picked up the phone: “Hello” then she didn’t say anything for a very long time. Since Mom was sitting next to me, and I was lying next to the fire place toasting the pads on my feet, I did hear the phone say—to repeat this message press any button now.

Suddenly Mom was jumping up, sort of stumbling over me…shish! I got up and moved out of the way. By the time I got up, Mom was over at Dad’s chair, handing him the phone. I saw her push a button and then put the phone to Dad’s ear.

Dad listened awhile and said. “This is serious!” as he hung up the phone.

He told Mom to call my oldest Sister to let her know about the reverse 911 (a 119) call.

Here is what I heard as Mom talked to Shannon—

“We just got a call from the Sherriff’s department. There are two armed and dangerous fugitives on the loose. They are two men wearing dark hoody type coats, each man has a dark backpack and is wearing camouflage shorts. If you see them call 911 immediately. Do NOT approach them, do Not try to detain them in any manner. The armed fugitives have been spotted in our vicinity. We are advised to lock all out buildings, all vehicles, the doors and windows to our house, and stay inside.”

Then Mom and Dad turned on all the outside lights, got flashlights and headed out to do as instructed. Of course I went with them. I AM the protector of the property, and of Mom and Dad.

As we were doing all this we could see down our country lane and way across the fields of our neighbor’s there were lots and lots of car lights and activity on the roads surrounding us. Later on a helicopter flew by. It was all very….unusual for our little part of the world that is for sure.

Mom made me come inside and locked the doors. “You can go out only if I am with you, Boomer. No since in you getting in harm’s way.” She said, as I bedded down for the night.

This morning everything seems to be back to normal. I checked out the lane, nothing there but the usual.

Sure was a watchful night.

Boomer

Love Over Fear–Guest Post—Thursday, November 19, 2015

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Dayphoto

I think Uncle Spike has said this the best of anything I’ve read. Thanks Uncle Spike! May you and yours remain safe!

Uncle Spike's Adventures

The level of response generated by my previous post, Perspective & Humanity, was reassuring, pretty much supportive and mostly from my usual clan of faithful blogging correspondents. My follower numbers did drop a bit (15 or so I think), which was as to be expected, but let’s just say that I’m getting to the point where I know what matters to me.

Anyway, suffice it to say, I think you know where I’m coming from regarding these recent, or shall we say ongoing, atrocities at the hands of these numbnuts with the black flag and their mandatory brain cell count of <12. In actuality, they are probably not that thick at all; in fact they seem highly organised, so therefore I guess just plain evil, rather than stupidly misguided then.

One of my mutual followers, Suzanne, is a French Canadian who also lived in Paris, and so her commentary…

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Corn Report—Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Dayphoto

Well, here we sit, the corn is still standing, albeit growing shorter and shorter as the days go by. The weather and the wind has started breaking the tops off the stalks, the moisture is keep the corn kernels wet, and the ground is muddy.

It’s not just us…it is everyone who has corn to shell and sell.

Still we wait. There isn’t anything else to do.

Corn harvest…not yet!

Your friend on a western Colorado Farm,

Linda

Two Years Ago in October—Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Dayphoto

I have been reading Marianne’s Blog…Northview Diary ever since I started blogging many years ago. I love reading about she and Ralph’s life in upstate New York, I’ve cried with them when they decided to sell out of the dairy business, and I’ve rejoiced at the birth and each mile stone of Sweet Little granddaughter!

But the one post that stays with me is this one:

Hold me in the Sunlight.

After all the winter storms we’ve been having I think it is a fitting post for this Tuesday.

Spare me from the hunter’s moon

And coyotes howling on the hill

I don’t like it in the dark,

I’m sure I never will.

The sun and color have my heart,

The rising tide of daybreak

Morning is my favorite hour

I can’t abide the evening.

Wrap me in robins,

Sing me some sparrows,

Charm me with blue jays outspoken.

I’ll sleep when the sun goes down

And thank you for daybreak each morning.

Marianne

After huge winds last night (and still going strong today) we finally have some sunlight. Although, it is rather cold outside…with the sun I can handle the cold.

With love and friendship,

Linda

A Rainbow from Kate—Sunday, November 15, 2015

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Dayphoto

Kate Chiconi for Mackay, North Queensland sent to me a lovely rainbow taken over her home.

In her email to me, with this lovely gift of a rainbow, she said:

“Genesis 9:13

“God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud…

We have seen a great cloud over the earth in past days. Today we have a sign that we aren’t forgotten.

I leave you with the best words I know on the subject.

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

John Donne

Vive La France!”

Please slip on over to her blog to read the whole beautiful post she did on this very sad subject.

Much love,

Linda

Not so Long Ago—Thursday, November 12, 2015

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Dayphoto

Just before our first snow fall, to be exact.

In the thin, cold, but sunny air….

The two of us were flying down the road, top off to the sky, flying close to the ground. The two of us in the same wind.

Your friend,

Linda

A Storm Rolled in Last Night—-Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Dayphoto

We woke up to snow this morning! Although it IS melting, it’s still snow. Sure seems early this year.

Terry and I worked on the fire roads. We have one that is a pain in the ….well, you know what.

Yep, Terry is stuck…that’s a chain, whereby I’m pulling him out. This particular spot is a real struggle. Twice a year we clear and clean and create making it safe to get to the rest of the farm.

Fire is a mighty and very scary thing.

Boomer worked right along side of us, up and down, back and forth…over and over again.

Right now the wind is blowing, sharp and cold; pushing the clouds toward the north and the east, mud is appearing where the snow once was. Work on the fire roads has ended for the year.

Your friend on a very muddy western Colorado farm,

Linda

Guest Post from Kagedog in Cedaredge, Colorado—Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Dayphoto

Kagedog sent me this beautiful photograph. She graciously said I could share it with you.

Here is what she wrote to me: ” Doesn’t this kind of look like a Grant Wood painting? :) I took it right before our first snowfall last week. You can see the snow that had already fallen on the Grand Mesa.

I just love it! Thank you, Kagedog!

Your friend,

Linda

Sometimes You Just Gotta—Sunday, November 8, 2015

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Dayphoto

Sometimes you wake up and go…”I’m tired of the same-o-same-o. We need to do SOMETHING different!”

Friday was a day like that for Terry and I.

I’ve been painting in our house for the last several weeks…bathroom, bedrooms, front and back porch; plus all the other things we have been getting done in preparation for the corn harvest. Loading up hay for hay customers, winterizing both yards and pumps and well, the list just goes on an on.

Terry looked at me and asked, “Well, what do you want to do? Got any ideas?”

Yes I did! I have been missing Bladen. It was many weeks ago we saw him. He didn’t come for Halloween, because of basketball games that weekend. (And, of course OTHER more interesting things 8th grade boys like to do.)

So we called Misty and asked if we could come up for Blade’s game with Baggs Wyoming. It would be a fast trip as there were hay customers coming the first thing Saturday morning, but we wanted to see everyone for a couple of hours and watch Blade play.

She told us to come on up, but don’t tell the kids…just drive in an surprise them!

So we did!