a hot day or two and back to the cold | Life on a Colorado Farm

I’ve been helping Mom. I help Mom ALL the TIME!!! Sometimes I’m so close to Mom she trips over me… 😦 Not good! Mom doesn’t yell at me but she does say: “BOOMER!!! You have to stop being so close! You are going to get us both hurt”!

I just smile at her and wag my tail. I won’t get us both hurt! Shish! Mom is such a worry-wart.

Anyway we forked up all the loose hay the day before the big rain fell. It sure was hot that day. WHEW! I don’t know how Mom and Dad did it…I just had to ride on the back of the four-wheeler and the sun baked me into a huge Boomie Chip!

Then the rain came. Huge amounts of water fell from the sky. Fuzzy and I stayed inside with Mom, Dad, Sam and Monkey…to tell you the truth being inside while the rain chilled everything down and turned the soil into a giant bog hole was………………………..NICE!!!!

After the rain left then the house seem pant, pant, pant…HOT!

Anyway, back to what I found…yesterday the sky was beautiful – full of big soft fluffy clouds and lots of warm sunshine (although the nights are very chilly. I think Mom said it was 45* this morning. Fuzzy and I sleep inside when it’s cold so we weren’t cold…but I digress.)

So here we were up at the alfalfa field…it’s now and alfalfa field the hay field is gone since the hay bales are in the hay yard. 🙂

Okay, Mom, Dad and I were in the alfalfa field setting the water for the last time this year (maybe the last time—for sure the next to the last time). Fuzzy dididn’tant to come. Fuzzy really only likes riding in the back of the pick-up anymore. He says someone really needs to stay home and watch the place.

That’s okay with Mom and me, after giving Fuzzy lots of pets and lovings Mom and Dad and I headed up the alfalfa field.

I decided to check out the news in the field, Fuzzy is just like me and really enjoys the news. I looked around…Dad was carrying one of the big metal dams and walking down the ditch, Mom was bent over picking up the white syphon tubes and dunking them in the water and then setting the tubes down in the row…Good they are busy.

Tralalalallalal….sniff here and sniff there…hummmmm raccoons…four of them. Sniff, snuff….sniff…

SWOOSHH!

Oh, my heavens! WHAT WAS THAT!!!?

Quail! How neat is this….Oh, calm down Momma Quail I’m not going to do anything to your 8 little chicks! Tee Hee, laugh, giggle….Boy, are you cute!

Got ‘a go now!

Sniff, sniff, snuff!

WOW!!! NOW THIS IS COOL!!!!

“BOOMER!! BOOMER, what are you doing?”

Oh, heck! She would call me just as I found this stuff. Oh, darn…here she comes…do I dare….

“BOOMER!!! Don’t you DARE roll in that you hear me?”

Geez…Mom got here just as I was about to flop over…sigh.

“Yuck, Boomer! Don’t do that! Do you want another bath? Stop!”

Oh, okay…I won’t. But LOOK MOM it’s HUGE! We have a HUGE deer eating in the alfalfa field!

“Come on, Boom, let’s go. Maybe we will be lucky to see the buck that dropped this mess. The deer always come on the farm when hunting season starts.’

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Hey, Fuzz! I found some cute quail and a GIANT DEER POOP! The best part of starting the irrigation water was the GIANT POOP!!!

POOP! Lucky you Boomer. I know we have deer that live here year round, but finding GIANT poop means we have a GIANT DEER!

Yeah, Fuzzy…it was giant for deer poop! Next time I hope I can get a good roll in it so you can have really nice sniff!

I hope you do too, Boomer. My eyes and ears might not work well, and my legs are wobbly, but my nose is just fine!

I promise you this, Fuzzy, the next time I’ll bring you back some good poop smells!

You’re a good Buddy, Boomer a real good Buddy!

Ah, thanks, Fuzzy! You are welcome.

Boomer

Mom says everything has been a roller coaster ride…the last three weeks! Boomer and I talked about a roller coaster and decided we don’t know what a roller coaster was. Since we couldn’t figure it out we decided it wasn’t important.

As for riding…heck! We haven’t really ridden on anything that was really bad…we’ve gone to do water several times, rode to town several times, laid under the pick-up lots, but as far as anything else…I guess we just don’t understand.

GUESS WHAT!!!

The water is now in the canal!

We’ve started the water on the alfalfa fields…I LOVE IRRIGATING! Most of the time I like to stay home and guard the house and the buildings and the yard [now]. But Mom makes me go with her (and Boomer and Dad) sometimes. Boy, am I ever glad I go!

You see—IT’S IRRIGATION TIME!

Hank even comes over from his house and helps out.

We had to stop…irrigating, I mean. Dad’s main ditch…the one that leaves the head gate and enters onto the farm washed out. A huge hole washed into the bend, the side caved away with Dad standing on it, and everything went splash!

The splash part was sorta neat, I rushed right over to see if something cool was in the water…nope, no water rats, or mice, or snakes…but there was DAD! I skedaddled out the way when I saw it was Dad. 😦

Mom and Dad put 300 pounds of cement into the ditch, worked on the sides, and created a whole new bend.

Just as soon as the cement cures the water will be back on and we will be IRRIGATING!!! YIPPEE!!!

We have had rain and the snow and sleet and ice. We went from a HOT day to several days of very, very cold.

Boomer and I are still sleeping inside. I’m not sure if I’m going to move us outside at all this year. Old bones really don’t like cold, you know.

Dad and Mom have the water back on and in the alfalfa that didn’t get watered yet.

You know something, I just thought of this, our lives(Dad, Mom, Boomer and I) are all governed by the irrigation water! Now THAT is cool!

Here I am just a swing’n. I like to sit in this swing and feel the breezes on my fur. Now days I have to have Mom put me up here. I get really close to the swing and look beseechingly at Mom until she comes over and picks me up and sits me on the swing.

AHHHHHHHHH!

Life is good!

Fuzzy