It’s happening!
The corn is starting to tassel
And the baby ears are forming!
So! SOOO! Very exciting!
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all….summer was Dill.” Harper Lee
(Or maybe CORN!)
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Alas, our above normal December temperatures have fallen to ‘normal’.
This is the high yesterday. Which really was much colder as we had a sharp wind with the cold, so the wind chill needed to be factored in.
Even as cold as this was Fuzzy wanted to stay outside, although Boomer didn’t.
Sam didn’t stay in much either, preferring the outdoors, then sitting by the wood stove when he came in, then back out he would go.
Monkey, made a wild dash out the door, only once,
When I went out to do something.
This is what I saw when I came back.
Although, I know cold is relative, this is cold to us
The temperature when I got up today.
And it will only get worse as the days wind down to the solstice on December 21st.
Will that be the end of the world?!?!?
I have know idea.
I do know that after the solstice, the days will start to grow longer again and the temperatures even colder and colder until we hit March.
Which seems like a very long time from now.
Oh, well. Cold like this is really hard on the bugs, which can be a good thing next summer!
Linda
We have photos of Grandpa sleeping with Bladen and Linkin, so I just couldn’t pass up one of Grandpa sleeping with Tallin. (Although, there are others already posted on the blog.)
The baby chickens are starting to take on the look of grown-up chickens, with most or all of their feathers.
They are really cute, stretching their wings and flying across the pen or running really fast to catch a bug. But they are NOT cute when they jump up on top of the feeder and poop all over it or the waterer and poop all over it.
But Terry fixed that!
Round, slippy, sliddy tops keep the little girls in their place on the floor!
Tallin Rose McCormick
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