Gone is the time when the days of Summer seem endless
The dark of the night is coming swifter and faster and lasting longer and longer
Still, the days offer amazing delights —sweet little eye-candy treats
The heartbeat of our bird friends on the farm, gifting us with bits and pieces of their lives.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Terry went out to check the drying down corn
Just to get an idea where the moisture content is
19% it has to dry more…down to 14% or lower.
We continue to wait.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I have had to figure out How to be outside. Mostly because I am still learning ‘stuff.’
This Spring and Summer were wonderful, I enjoyed (I still do, but it’s not the same soft stuff I used to enjoy) the lawn!
And catching birds, which I couldn’t let Mom see because she would take them away from me.
Chasing weeds, and now leaves are a huge part of FUN.
I chased grasshoppers and all sorts of bugs—which seem to be gone now.
And Mice. I can still chase and kill and NOW EAT mice.
But my latest is catching————-RUN! THAT IS A COYOTE!!
SNAKES!!!
They are so incredibly swirly, twisty, and weird that I LOVE Finding Them.
I bring them to the house so Mom or Dad can see what I found.
SNAKE!!!
TLC CAI-CAI
Over night the rain came
Bringing with it much cooler weather
And softened lovely earth, that dried very quickly.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The lovely, lovely moon
Broke through the thick and heavy clouds
Lighting our world in silver moon dust.
Oh, how I love the full moon and how the earth turns into a magic fairyland of light.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
TLC Cai-Cai and I went out to check the drying down of the corn
Still spots of green…still drying down.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
One morning we were covered in a very large cloud
The sun shining on the edges of our horizon
It was just one cloud, but oh, my was it a huge cloud!
Your friend on western Colorado farm,
Linda
The elusive feel of Summer is over…until next year
Our woodstove providing all the heat for our old bones
The lovely warmth (even HOT) of that special time (Summer)
Now only a memory as we move into that space just before —-W.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Tuesday and Thursday were a huge pain in my fluffy tail.
It rained.
Then it sleeted.
Then the wind blew a gale.
Then it rained again.
There is Nothing!
I mean NOTHING!
To do inside.
So, I went outside anyway.
What a stupid idea THAT was!
Mom said I have to get used to the fact that sometimes I just won’t want to be outside.
Like Tuesday, and Thursday….
I went outside all day Wednesday; Mom had to drag me back inside. (With the promise of Kitty Candy…just say’n.)
Sigh!
TLC Cai-Cai
Hi Linda
I hope you’re getting some well-earned rest after the hay marathon. If we were neighbours, I’d be coming in for a couple bales myself, to feed my forthcoming little flock when the weather’s a bit too dry for good forage.
Life on a Colorado Farm 