The days move forward
Moving from late spring now into
Early Summer.
It’s a busy time (this little Quail is taking a dust bath 🙂
Our little fox is now grown and a busy
Momma fox. I haven’t seen the kits yet, but they are there I am sure.
While I have you here…what is this little bird? It’s bigger than a Finch, and is pretty much all red?
Early Summer,
A marvelous time of the year!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
While the heat baked and broiled outside
Terry and I finished making the rest of the MUCH NEEDED siphon tubes. This is the oven where we bake the tubes, turning them into soft plastic
Terry takes them out (while still warm) and forms them in the perfect shape
Done! We made around 50 or so, I lost count after a spell.
That evening we made several trips to the fields and added the new tubes in with the old ones, so we don’t have pack tubes from this area to the next!
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Saturday we had clouds come in—–and a smattering of delightful rain.
Smoke in the sky—-still.
Then last evening,
as we rode out to change the irrigation water, we rode in gigantic surging drifts
and volleying gusts
of a staggering force of the dirty wind.
At least it didn’t last long. This morning it is gone.
Although, the sky is still pretty smokey.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I enjoy seeing the rabbits
Out and about on the farm.
They aren’t the easiest things
To see
Let alone photograph
But they ARE fun!
I have no idea what breed they are
I just know that, for me, they are a nice bit of
pleasure. Pleasant, for sure.
Lightning Fast!
I have to be speedy for they truly scurry here, and then away, in the quickness of a heartbeat.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Connie from Minnesota sent me these homemade wasp nests. You stuff them with plastic bags then decoupage them. After they are dry you hang them where wasps like to nest.
I needed to hurry and get them hung up because TLC Cai-Cai thought they were made for him. 🙂
No more invasive bugs at our house!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I begged.
I whined.
I raced out the door.
Until Mom and Dad said I could go outside!
YAY!
So out I went. It lasted for three days. Then I pounced on a stray cat someone dropped off.
No, the stray cat wasn’t Mindy. We touch noses lots. And if I get too pouncy Mindy TELLS me to knock it off. She never BITES me!
(To tell the truth, I just wanted to play. I understand differently now.)
That stray cat bit my leg…bad. It swelled up and up and up. I wouldn’t let Mom touch it to see what was going on, If Mom tried to I bit MOM!
So, Off We Went to the Vets.
Yep…money, money, money later…I came home with a chicken leg instead of a cat leg. And guess what!
I have to stay inside until the scab falls off!
Sigh!
But – don’t let it fool you—I AM going BACK outside. And THAT is THAT!
TLC Cai-Cai
These are beautiful flowers from Elaine, in the Black Forest, Colorado. Thank you, Elaine.
The amazing, over-the-top heat has arrived, seeping into every aspect of every part of our lives
Bearing down into our souls, it’s so hot.
No matter the boiling temperatures…we still must step out onto the farm for our everyday work
The sunshine seems to shimmer across the land
And the shadows fall deep and cool under the brilliant stunning baking air.
Even though it is amazingly hot the land is still beautiful
And the lives who live with us on this terra firma keep us humble in a wonderful way.
By evening a hot, brusque wind sweeps down from the Uncompahgre Plateau, through the canyons; giving us a respite from the baking oven-like feeling the lack of moving air seems to provide.
No matter what…heat and bugs and all…I still like Summer best! 🙂
From my world to your heart,
Linda
I received an email from Pennsylvania about
This photo I called A Rip in the Sky. Here is what he wrote:
“Took this pic Friday evening on the way home from my daughter Lily’s softball game.
Hope all is well.”
WOW, one just like I saw!
How neat that is!
Don’t forget to LOOK UP, Everyone! There is exciting and wondrous stuff in the air!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Veering wind sweep the smoke from the sky (it will be back, I’m sure)
I saw, in the muted and filtered light,—the moon and a star —probably a planet but I don’t know which one. 🙂
The light was soft and kind and beautiful.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
A human-caused fire near Moab, Utah
Called the Pack Creek fire
Was caused by someone leaving (!!!!!!?????) a campfire unattended.
The smoke from Moab’s Pack Creek area filled the sky in a horrible, ugly, beautiful, sad way.
Unattended. So unnecessary. So sad.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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