The air is cold today!!!
Snow and rain and wind…insane wind.
The air is dim and miserable. Snow frosts the air and chills the bones; roars along with the wind spitting through the air
The searching bitter wind has put a stop for all the farmers harvesting. Winter has come.
I am most grateful that our pinto beans are harvested. Most grateful.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Like the wind rushing musically throughout the drying corn
The weather held, turning into bright October days, full of sunlight
Harvested, delivered and sold! First paycheck of the year! (Besides the hay, that is)
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”—Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Chapter Nine
Meanwhile………….
Back at the farm house
Mom and Dad came home!
Mindy and Sam-Sam were there to meet Mom and Dad, but…
Hum…not me, the world-famous Sherlock Boomer Beaglie.
Mindy told me that Mom called and called and called.
No Boomer
Then Mom and Dad came out and got on their four-wheelers and left!
After a long, long time they came back.
Then Dad went out by himself.
By now it was getting dark.
Mom walked around and called my name lots.
Mom and Mindy walked out to the corn field and called my name.
Then it started to rain.
Mindy said Mom picked her up and went into the house.
Mindy heard Mom tell Dad she hoped Boomer was okay; it’s raining and she heard the coyotes up at the Upper End.
Off and on Mom would got out throughout the night and call my name. Mindy didn’t go with her. Mindy said she knew I would be home sometime, maybe just not right now.
Sammy and Mindy climbed onto Dad’s lap and took a nap. Mom was too nervous to have a cat sleeping on her.
As for Kit and I…well, it rained, you see, and the creek rose up.
By the time the creek rose up, Momma Fox was over with us scouting around for mice and such to eat.
As for me…I guess I sorta, kinda, well…lost track of time.
We went out and checked the pinto beans
The pods need to be dry.. all the moisture gone, so when they go through the combine they won’t wad up and cause a HUGE mess.
It won’t be long now!!! Soon!
As my Daddy used to say: “if the creek don’t rise”, we are on our way!
{Which I think is a very old saying, even a quote from someone famous way-back-when. It means: with good luck and no major problems everything will come together.)
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
It was warmer yesterday. A lovely touch of sunlight, soft breezes and sunlit farm light
(that is a Gambols Quail coming toward me.)
We are still having tiny little hummingbirds visiting the feeder.
Sometimes I see only one, some days none at all…
Then just before the big cold rain I saw six. My heart goes out to them, traveling so late in the year. I hope they make it somewhere warm soon.
Then while out on a wee walk with Boomer and Mindy the cat…I found
A heart! A perfect sort of magic!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
It’s been raining again…all through the night Sunday and most of the day Monday. It’s cold enough we had to start up the wood stove; sure felt nice!
We still have one more field of pinto beans to get out…but it must dry first!
The weather people are saying the sunshine is due to come back today…warmer weather tomorrow, then by Thursday we will experience NICE fall weather.
Maybe by then we will be able to get the ‘rest of the beans’ out! 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Opening my email I saw this fun message–
” Crazy weather on the way home this eve. Was gobsmacked to turn into the estate and find a rainbow landing on our house!”
Linda Brown, my Rainbow Lady – isn’t this just beautiful?
What a cool rainbow!!! Thank you so much, Erynne!
Thank you for letting me share it with all my readers!
Love,
Linda
Off and on all the day of Friday we had thick, soft, wet clouds in the sky,
Then an opening between storms would gift us with prisms of beauty, so wonderful they seemed to breathe in the autumn air
Then the storms would come again puddling on the earth leaving behind a leaden stillness,
and a sullen sky
Then once more in stunning splendor the sun would break forth and brighten the gloom
The parted clouds lighting the world.
Then that evening as the sunset
Built within the sunset
A sundog appeared! I stood marveling as the amazing sky sang with echoes of humming songs in color for all to see.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”—Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Chapter Eight
Momma Fox liked naps. But how in the world could Kit and I like a nap when there was so much to do and so little time to do ‘stuff’ in! In this case we have to get lots of NOTHING done before Mom and Dad get back!
“RACE YOU!” I shouted as we made it to the very tall grass at the Upper End!
“Okay, you’re on!” Kit replied as he left me in the dust.
Cough, hack, sneeze, and cough! I stood there rubbing the dirt out my eye with one paw then the other. Finally I lay down and rubbed both eyes with one paw.
THERE I can see again! Up I jumped following that youngster as fast as my beaglie legs can carry me!
Up we went, down we went; suddenly then we were there!
Kit got there first sniffing all around the base of the trees looking for mice holes, I sniffed around looking for news!
I don’t eat mice.
I don’t eat rabbits.
I don’t eat birds.
I don’t eat chickens…Kit and his Mom eat chickens. They REALLY like chickens…for lunch…dinner…supper…breakfast…SNACKS! Anytime, really. Besides chickens are easy to get—all they have to do is go down to my sister’s house hang out in the pasture with Romeo the horse, or in the corn field next to the yard and wait.
If they wait long enough one of those crazy silly birds will come scratching along looking for bugs, or a nice place to take a dust bath and BAM! The fox have FOOD!
That’s why Rocky Chaco Man and Black Dog hang out in the yard wherever the chickens are. Rocky and Black Dog take a very dim view of fox capturing and eating chickens.
A VERY dim view!
Out of twenty chickens the fox have snacked on 6 over the course of 6 months. One a month. That’s all they feel it’s worth almost getting caught by Rocky Chaco Man the Rottweiler!
Rocky says one a month is TOO much!
See the fox wait until Rocky and Black Dog get to go for a ride with their Mom. Going with their Mom is a HUGE wonderful treat. When the two dogs are gone, then one of the fox, either Mom Fox or Kit slip into the yard and SQUWAK it’s chicken for dinner, or lunch, or supper, or breakfast, or just a nice SNACK!
I try to reason with them about NOT taking the chickens…the chickens are pretty much my friends, as much as the fox are, but they don’t listen to me.
Sigh!
Anyway…here we are in the forest at the Upper End. Having a quick adventure, because we MUST get back before Momma Fox wakes up, and then I had better be way back home by the time Mom and Dad come back from their drive!
Oh! And we HAVE to be over the little creek BEFORE it starts to rain!
That’s a must! If we don’t get over the little creek before it starts to rain we won’t be able to do the other two AT ALL!
After that awful announcement of the Equifax Data Breach
I thought maybe I had better get my once a year credit reports.
Looking through them I saw in April 11, 15, 27, 29 2017 someone tried to open an account with Capital One!
Talk about scared!!!
I called LifeLock and reported this (I have LifeLock) and then called Capitol One
To make for a very long story, with lots of long, long minutes waiting on the phone line!
I’m happy to announce everything is okay today!
Now if there are those of you who wish to take Equifax up on their new offer…
The waits are terribly long, enough so your phone will actually click you off. And, you might not get through…I never did.
Anyway…moving forward,
Love,
Linda
