The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Farm News

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Dayphoto

I thought I would show you some of the things I’M interested in…you know the real NEWS of the farm. The very stuff that makes the whole place tick…MY sorta thing.

We have lots of raccoons…they are pretty brazen little creatures; coming right into the yard at night. RIGHT IN!!! I peal out of the back door and run howling after them (sometimes). Well, not lately…running anywhere is out the question. Although, my knee is coming along. I can trot on it a few paces, lots better than a week ago.

There is always the going to and fro and back again. I like those times…Mom picks me up and places me on the four-wheeler right behind her and we are OFF!

Morning, noon, mid-afternoon, and late evening (plus sometimes way in the night) then off we go.

I always get the same old boring talk when we get to wherever we are going: “No, rolling in anything nasty, Boomer. Remember if you do you have to sleep outside in your dog house”. Then she picks up both of my long, flappy ears and brings them to the side of my head, when she does that I always think I must look like a bird or something. Then she looks me right in the eyes and says: “You come when I call or you hear the four-wheeler start. If you don’t you will have to walk all the way back in by yourself.” With that she gives me a kiss on my very cute and loveable beagle nose and carefully lowers me to the ground. Mom is very careful to put my front legs down first then my back legs. I appreciate Mom!

As soon as I’m down I OFF!

Hummm, sniff, snuff…yep…raccoon’s washing their dinner off. For some reason they like soggy food. Ick!

Sniff, sniff…

OH! OH!

As we were going home, when it was almost dark we saw a buck! I haven’t seen any deer, so far, but here is one of the bucks! Dad says there is a doe and a fawn up on the Sagebrush Hill, but I haven’t seen or smelled them yet. Although, to be honest I haven’t made it up that far…soon though, after the old knee gets better.

Anyway…this buck isn’t even afraid of me or Mom or Dad. Mom says we are his people (and dog). She says he has probably been born here and lived here all his life and knows we aren’t going to do anything to him.

Mom always likes to see the sunset…last night the sunset was on the water in the irrigation ditch. She told Dad and me it was beautiful.

Just as it was about time to leave one field to go to another field to set the water I FOUND IT!

Yes! I DID!

OH THE JOY!

OH THE WONDER!

Forgetting everything Mom admonished me with I zoomed over and gave myself a huge roll in something really stinky and nasty! IT WAS DELIGHTFUL!

Brought a huge smile to my face! HUGE!

Did I have to sleep outside? Ummm, well, yes. But, OH WELL! It was hot inside anyway and the roll SO WORTH IT!!

Boomer

P.S. Sadly I got a bath this morning.

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—It’s Summer Time

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Dayphoto

And the living is getting easy!

First things first, Mom says: “Our boy left today.” But for a small space in time I got to be petted and loved on by the two girls. The littlest one had broken the ball in her elbow and wasn’t feeling very well (they had been to camp and she fell off the top bunk during the night).

I understand about bad limbs…I blew my knee out again. It’s been taking lots of time to heal this time. Mom says it’s because I’m elderly, now, so healing takes longer.

I’ve been sleeping lots and lots so my knee WILL heal. (Mom says I’m silly sleeping like I do in the dog house. She makes me come in so I will lay flat.)

Mom rubs DMSO on it once a day. I really like how it makes my knee feel. Afterwards…like in about an hour, I usually feel good enough to go outside and do ‘doggie things’—you know sniff around and gather up all the news in the farm yard.

Yesterday Dad was gone so it was just Mom and I doing the irrigation. I actually felt good enough to go with her. I had just been wagging my tail and watching her drive off, but not today.

Today I beat her to her four-wheeler and waited for her to get there and lift me up so I could GO!

I even wanted down so I could check out everything going on, on the farm!

Mom said she was “DELIGHTED” I was feeling much better!

ME TOO!

Boomer

Once Farming Begins—-Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Dayphoto

Nothing stops for very long. (Getting ready to cultivate)

There is always something to do. The work begins in that strange dawn light, called First Light. That time when the light just starts to swell and become real.

The work is solitary, but not lonely

There is always something (here he is going to knock down the dirt so the plants come push through)

Planting the last of our crops, the pinto beans. The type we plant is Bill Zee.

And always, always there is the water to change…morning, noon and night….and sometimes at mid-night.

I do NO tractor work, but Boomer and I always help with the irrigation.

Wind, rain, sun, and in the shredding of the night, called Dawn

or the slow leaving of the sun’ dominance of the day

We are there. Moving together as one.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

Bubbles of Joy—-Thursday, May 26, 2016

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Dayphoto

The Monster at the Loch of Colorado Farm. He resides within the Standing Stones Garden.

Everything comes at a price, they say. Everything.

But I wonder: Does it have to be in pain, and sweat and tears!

Can’t the price be hope, and joy, and the belief in well-being?

Can’t it come through that most profound emotion called Love?

Why NOT approach everything in the belief that there is a stream of well-being in the world and be part of that stream?

I love the coolness and the sudden sense of relief the second I arrive in that place of “letting go”. The letting go place is soothing, calming, and (to be very honest) Real!

Even if you don’t understand what I’m trying to say…that’s okay also.

I much prefer this looking at the world in rose colored glasses, than any other kind.

My wish for you today is find those things that raise your heart in happiness!

From my heart to your world,

Linda

Plowing—It’s the Only Way to Go—Sunday, March 20, 2016

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Dayphoto

Terry started plowing the old corn fields

Burying the old stalks, leaves, left over cobs, and cow manure….oh yes! And the MILK DUDS…back into the ground to mellow out and decompose.

I must say I am Tickled to Death about the Milk Duds, Beef Jerky and other assorted ‘chews’ NOT readily available for Boomer.

Although, he still goes out and tries to find them, they are now in the rich soil doing wonders for the earth worms and not Boomer’s tummy!

YAY!

He gained three pounds during this February…now he is on a diet. One I’ve imposed and one the plowed earth took away. Three pounds is huge on a 35 pound Beagle!

I finished all but one big spot of work last night in the sunset. Which, by the way, was stunning.

Have a good one, my friends!

Linda

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Good-Bye

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Dayphoto

Farewell!

See ya next year!

I was out and about checking the happenings on the farm, about three o’clock in the afternoon, when I started hearing lots and lots of hollering…

Good-Bye!

Ta-Ta!

LATER…I HOPE TO SEE YOU LATER!

BYE!

The racket was LOUD! So I trotted over to the old pinto bean field to see what was happening.

HUH?!?! WHAT! The cows are leaving!

I saw Mr. Davis, Mrs. Davis, and his daughters– Teresa and Rose– sorting the ‘almost-to-be-mommas’ from the already had babies mommas, then herding them to the gate to the road!

And DOWN the road.

I barked and hollered back at them—BYE, I don’t want you to leave, BYE! I’ve enjoyed having you here!”

Then the next day the Davis’ were all back…this time they separated the older calves from the just born calves, or the calves that were less than a week old.

Driving the babies and their moms over to the pinto bean field, then through the gate…and they were gone also.

This morning, as Mom was putting all the cats outside with me, Mr. Davis and Teresa stopped and said in two or three days they would have all the cows out. They want to give the babies a chance to be strong enough to walk to the pastures by their ranch house.

I heard Mom say she would let Terry (Dad) know. “Thank you. It’s always nice to have the cows and calves on the place.” She told Davis’.

With a smile and a wave from everyone the Davis’ were off. So was I…they have a cool dog in the back of the truck…we have major bark-offs as he drives away.

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—We Slid into Spring

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Dayphoto

These days are wonderful! Mom and Dad, the cats and yours truly—BOOMER the Beagle, have been spending every minute of the day outside doing all sorts of things.

Dad works on his ‘stuff’,

Mom is working on raking around all the outbuildings, the chicken house, the three woodpiles and is heading over to the equipment storage area and the corrals next!

The cats hang around outside and act pitiful. Just pitiful…gosh, geez, they are outside and the wind blows and messes up their fur, and there is no really comfy bed to lay on, whine, whine, whine.

I get sick of it!

Now ME! I go out the first rattle out the box every morning. First light! And I don’t come back in until the sunsets. (By that time I’m ready to come in.)

I can’t linger too long in the house, you know…there is a whole farm of snacks out there…first I go out and get snacks. Then I bring them in and toss them around on the grass for a spell. After that I EAT them. Then I take a nap. After my nap I repeat my run to the fields.

I used to try and bury my snacks…way back when I was new here, but when I went to UNbury them they were gone. Just Gone! So now I drag them into the yard. I used to drag them in arrange them in areas….beef jerky here, milk duds there. But when I was out getting more Mom would come by and gather them all up into a sack and take them to the trash barrel!!!!!

(I have to be wary of rain…for some reason rain melts my milk duds so I try to bury them under leaves and weeds in Mom’s flower beds. Mom doesn’t like that either. Go figure.)

Mom gathering up my snacks and destroying them Horrifies me! So now I scatter them here and there and everywhere. Mom still tries to get them all picked up, but she misses some. Tee Hee. Those are the ones I snack on when she isn’t looking.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO anywho…

I repeat this off and on all day. I want a nice pile of snacks, for when the cows leave in the next couple of weeks.

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Milk Duds and Beef Jerky

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Dayphoto

The cows are here!

Mom and I are in cow heaven! Every day Dad, Mom, and I head out and count babies. Right now…the count this morning was forty five calves on the ground.

Some just born overnight, a couple being born, as we drove by, and several are days and even a week or so old.

Now I admit, the other thing I like about CALF season is SNACKS! Mom gets rather irritated with me about SNACKS, in calf season, but (golly-geez!), I can’t help myself they are SO good!

I have to head-out by myself, as Mom gets grossed out and won’t let me snack. (I must admit Fuzzy never liked these snacks. I don’t know why he didn’t, he would just turn his head and walk on by.)

The first day of figuring out the farm is now loaded with Milk Duds (calf poopy) and Beef Jerky (after birth) I ate so much I had a belly ache. Mom told me she didn’t feel one bit sorry for me. Well, so what, I felt sorry for me.

BUT NOT ENOUGH TO STOP!!!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Rock a-bye Beaglie

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Dayphoto

Our company left. Mom was sad. Dad was sad. And I was sad. The cats rejoiced! They don’t like company or HANK!

I got to play lots and lots and I got

Lots and lots of love.

Company….

It’s the best!

Boomer

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Company!

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Dayphoto

We have company!

Hank Marshmallow Puff Cake McCormick has arrived!

He brought his family…all of them…

Mom, Dad,

Blade,

Linkin and

Tallin.

I like having those people show up also.

I get lots of hugs and loves and pats and rubs! I even get laid-on and ran with!

But the most fun comes with HANK! We do lots and lots and lots of things together…sniff out mice, (Hank digs in Mom’s flower beds and on the edges of the lawn-I don’t, but I do watch him), and long walks to see what is going on in the corn fields.