The sky bright with the joy
The big birds (Canadian geese and the Sandhill Cranes)
Uncomplicated happiness of pure delight
Gathering and sorting themselves into long pointed arrows
Heading home again toward Spring and Summer and new little chicks.
Jubilation, determination, happiness, all filtering down to us…here on the earth.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Busily moving through the clouds
Floating so close I think I could reach out and touch it
March’s Full Moon Showering Moondust on us, in the setting of the Sun.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
We have BIG animals—BIG:
First, we have DEER!
I try to hide when I see Deer. We have big Daddy deer, called A buck, who comes trotting into the yard randomly. Sometimes bringing along his wife, called a doe. They hang out in Mom’s yard and eat all the apples and apricots and cherries and—I think you get the picture.
If we don’t get Dad and Mom deer, we will get Mom and kid deer. Remember Mom is called a doe and the baby is called a fawn. Sometimes the doe has twins.
In the winter everyone (of the Deer family (called a herd)) likes to hang out together.
Sooo come winter we can have a HUGE group of deer in the yard (MY DOMAINE) or out on the farm itself. 
In the fall hunters hunt the deer, but our deer live with us on the farm, which is private ground, therefore no hunting. Unless the hunter gets a special ‘private ground’ hunting license.
But our deer…well, our deer seem to disappear about the time the cows show up. It seems like if we have cows on the farm, the deer migrate someplace else.
Don’t ask me why I don’t know.
Then come Summer—always in Summer the deer come back and hang out in the cornfields, where they build little round beds in the middle and snack on the corn silks.
At night, when it is dark outside, then they silently slip to the yard and SNACK away!
The next big animal is the COWS! But you already know about the cows.
Since I’m not going to rehash cows, I will tell you about bears who sometimes walk on the farm.
They also like fruit and will come in—but mostly they don’t come because they have lots to eat wherever they live in the canyons. BUT they have come when the drought is so bad all the wild cherries and berries dried up and didn’t produce.
Then we get a bear or two.
Talk about SCARY! I mean S.C.A.R.Y.! Mom and Dad call the Division of Wildlife and have an officer come out to tranquilize the bear and take it back up to the Uncompahgre Plateau.
Mom said a couple of years ago (I didn’t live here then, I wasn’t even a thought in my parents’ brains, at that point.) The bear came down in droves.
Then they found the sweet cornfields.
They sent back scouts to let all their bear friends know about the fields full of CANDY!
Mom said we had many, many. One bear even tried to break into our elderly neighbor’s house.
That was a long-time ago —I don’t think I will have to worry about bear on the farm.
Dad doesn’t plant sweet corn, although our neighbors do.
OH!
I hope I don’t have to worry about the bear!
I HOPE!
Shudder! Shake! DASH TO THE HOUSE!
TLC Cai-Cai
This is Wilson. He is a hospital therapy dog! He is HUGE! And SWEET! and just plain wonderful!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Well, let’s see you’ve learned about what a farm is
and how a farm works;
you’ve learned about the weather on our farm, and now—
You get to learn about the animals who share the farm with US!
We have big animals—
some wild and some who are domesticated (sorta kinda),
we have birds—lots and lots and lots of birds (slurp),
(it is HOT already)
we have small animals (like mice—YUM)
and animals who leave some sort of mark,
we have things that slither,
and bugs of all sorts,
and, that most awful animal of all the animals;
the animals who spell D.A.N.G.E.R. the second thier paw sets down on the ground.
So, for a few days,
you and I will check out “the wildlife who share the farm with us!”
TLC Cai-Cai
The cranes are leaving now. They stop by in the evening
Then lift up into the sky
Joining with others pointed North every morning.
Good-bye big birds!
Come again this next winter!
We will be waiting for you!
Linda
The Sky is falling!
THE SKY IS FALLING!
Oh, good heavens…just chill out. The sun is warm the wood is warm…nothin….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The last of the Canada geese left a few days ago.
They made a brief stop on the farm, spending the night among the Sandhill Cranes.
Then left early morning in a flutter of wings and loud calls of– follow me.
Come again, Come Again. You help make the winter be not so long.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Fall is Harvest!
Harvest is Autumn!
This is the time of year when HUGE! GIANT! Machines come out and roar and rumble on the farm.
Scares me to death!
I run to the house and stay INSIDE!
While in the house I look out the windows at those scary machines.
When they aren’t there…whew! Life is good again.
But…here is the thing…Dad even brings that HUGE scary machine into the yard and works on it at the shop.
That machine is FRIGHTENING!
Well, that is all I know about Harvest. It is all I know about the seasons and weather and stuff like that.
I think the next thing I will tell you about is the wildlife that lives with me, Mom, and Dad on the farm.
Maybe you will enjoy learning about coyotes, porcupines, rabbits, snakes, badgers, weasels, owls, squirrels…you get the picture.
All the animals that live with us on the farm.
TLC Cai-Cai
Then I got an email, from a very long, long-time blog reader and wonderful friend.
“I am sending you a book”, she wrote among other kind and loving words.
IT CAME!
I love Mary Oliver’s poems!
Love them!
Thank you so much CRay!
We might (you and I) un-ravel once in a while. As Mary Oliver says so beautifully.
Being in and of the earth is healing.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 