“I am Content! Thankfully I only have four hens to take care of—I don’t want any more”!
Skitter Bug says: “I am grateful a rooster doesn’t live here”.
🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Larry Says—Tuesday, June 21, 2022
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All the way from Wayne Township, Noble County, Ohio—Monday, June 20, 2022
I got a message on messenger with this lovely, lovely rainbow.
“Here is a rainbow from near Seneca Lake, Wayne Township, Noble County, Ohio. It is a double rainbow. You can barely see the one to the left. We had 1 1/2 inches of rain in about one hour. Makes around 5″ in the last week”
(And, if you look close there is the start of a third rainbow! WOW! Something I have only heard about; never seen!!)
What a lovely and beautiful gift…Thank you ever so much,
Linda
Magnificent—Sunday, June 19, 2022
Wow! This is rather nice.
my feet feel warm and nice
I think I’ll take a wee sit
Ah……………….nice. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
From my world to your heart,
Linda
The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Farm Adventures, For Mom, June 17, 2022
I was out and about
When I saw
Chase
Chase
Zoom
Pounce
A Lizard!
You have to be Extremely Fast
To Catch a Lizard.
TLC Cai-Cai
We Have Begun—-Thursday, June 16, 2022
During the time of the Strawberry moon —Last night–
We finished the First Cutting of Alfalfa. (And it’s already sold.)
This is the first field, we have one more to go.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
What a Strange Spring—Full of Hostile and Violent Wind — Wednesday, June 15, 2022
We are working in wind again. A Hostile wind full of dirt and debris
The wind buffets everything. And the HEAT—a huge part of the wind blisters all who are out it in. (Often times followed by a cool front that is downright cold)
Erratic violence.
which panics the little birds snatching them, by force, and flinging them here and there.
It’s been a strange, strange Spring full of amazing, sometimes scary, wind.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
In Search of Light —- Tuesday, June 14, 2022
I am always looking for light
Soft light, bouncing off the earth in its own special way.
Or bright Golden light—descending from the heavens
Or vivid deep gold light called the GOLDEN hour.
Light, shape-shifting through each day of our lives.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Decision is Always the Universe’s —- Monday, June 13, 2022
Sometimes I wonder, as I work around the yard
How did I not see (when I was younger)
How fast, how very fast
Each and every day of our lives
Slips silently and intently toward that horizon
called Death
Or, the Other Side.
Each day, so beautiful and bright, punctuated here and there with this and that, sometimes something so dark and dismal it’s hard to get through, other times so full of beauty and happiness your heart illuminates your whole being.
Quickly, quickly, time passes. Each day and night, so full of life–your life. My life. The gift of being alive.
From my heart to your world,
Linda
Our Neighbor’s Daughter —- Sunday, June 12, 2022
Our Neighbor’s Daughter, Jill sent to us
A photo of our house, from her parents’ house
With a Rainbow right over our tractor sheds!
WOW! Thank you so much, Jill!
Our very own rainbow. We would have never known if you had not shared with us!
From our hearts to your world,
Linda
The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Farm Adventures, Those Who Live with Me, Friday, June 10, 2022
We have a chipmunk…
actually, two that live with me in the farm yard. But Mom can never seem to get a photo of them. These Chips are the descendants of two Chips
who were friends with Sam-Sam.
And Fuzzy.
And Boomer. Now their great, great grands are friends with me.
Since Mom can’t get a photo of them, she is posting one she saw out on the farm—where I NEVER go.
We also have several ground squirrels who share the chicken feed with the chickens.
Once more these are the descendants of Stanly and Stewart and their lovely squirrel wives—Shirley and Shelia.
It seems whenever Mom is around and the squirrels are around, she never has her camera. BUT— out on the farm, Mom saw a squirrel hiding behind his tail. So cute-thought Mom.
We also have a family of bunnies.
Momma bunny told me it was much, much safer to hang around the farm yard, than the farm proper. She knows, she was over by the equipment area when she grew up.
It was a dangerous and very scary place to live.
The Gambol Quails have migrated in to share dinner with the hens. They are extremely fast. (and, of course, Mom never has her camera when she is working in her yard.)
The pair of Gambol Quails have BABIES— that run and dart very fast. I have a goal….no! No! NO!!!! I don’t. Never! I can’t even think of that goal! EVER!!!!
One day I was a tad bored, Skitter Bug was close, I was bored so I hopped out from under the peony bush right on her back. (Mom saw). Mom screamed NO!
She didn’t need to scream.
Skitter Bug turned around very fast and pecked the heck out of me, then when I fell over, she flew up and pounced on ME!
Let’s just say—hens are off the grocery shopping list. (Although to be fair to me, I didn’t want to eat her, just play with her.)
We have
birds,
and birds
and
lots of birds.
One day we had a hawk…
WOW, THAT BIRD IS BIG!!!
I had to hide in the wood pile. Mom was outside and saw the hawk. She yelled at the hawk—“SHOO! Go away!
(I’m not sure if this IS a hawk—any ideas?)
These animals in the farm yard are NOT your dinner.” The hawk just looked at Mom, but he did fly away.
So—that’s the working list of animals in the farm yard.
Plus, Me, Dad, and Mom.
(We also have a badger…Mom…did you hear me?)
TLC Cai-Cai
Life on a Colorado Farm 