The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — For One Day Only

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Dayphoto

Last week we had a huge ice storm, then Mom and Dad LEFT!!!

Mom talked to both of us and told us they were going on a little trip, they would be gone three days and two nights, but they WOULD BE BACK!!!

Then she petted us and gave us kisses on the nose and really nice back scratches and asked us to do a good job of taking care of everything while they were gone.

We gave Mom lots of kisses on her hand and arm and said we would.

It was a LONG TIME UNTIL THEY GOT BACK!

Three days is FOREVER!!!!!

Yes, Shannon came up and took us for walks with the our dog cousins, and Misty and the little kids came over and checked on us….

BUT IT JUST WASN’T THE BEST…………..

We needed Mom and Dad!

Then they were here! Yippee! Boomer laid all over Dad’s feet and I laid right by Mom’s chair until bedtime, then we both slept in the bedroom with OUR PEOPLE!

While they were gone we had another ‘gully-washer’ so none of us could go out and start putting the farm to bed.

Gradually the days dried out and then on the warmest day ever (and I do mean HOT) Mom and Boomer and I and DAD all went out to gather in the siphon tubes

and the roll-out ditches and to pick up all the orange dams. Then we got the metal dams and stored them also.

Dad checked the corn out…still to moist, maybe by Halloween the harvest will start.

Boomer checked out all the raccoon poop and foot prints.

Me?

I stayed with Mom. I always stay right with Mom wherever she is ALWAYS!

That’s my job!

Taking care of Mom!

It sure was HOT! Whew! After all the cold we’ve been having to have a normal temperature day was rather, well…WARM!

Coming back home we all trouped into the house—first Mom, then Boomer and then me.

Monkey at her normal spot

Then Dad came in and made lots of noise, he dropped something I don’t know what….and

SCARED MONKEY!!!

Tee Hee …we all laughed out-loud!

She didn’t think it was funny!

HAHAHAHAH

BUT WE DID!!!

Sure was a good day!

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Fall Storm

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dayphoto

The day started like this…Boom was resting and resting and resting. But Mom came out and started putting all the lawn furniture away…off we trotted to the old unused grain bin…first Boomer’s favorite bed, then his second favorite bed, then Dad’s favorite chair…after that all the tables and the benches. Back and forth Boomer and I went with Mom. We are very good helpers!!

Then when Dad and Mom went off to finish Shannon’s fireplace

the wind started up…it blew me this way and that! That is one thing about wind I really don’t like my fur going here and there and everywhere!

Gradually the day started to end as the wind got worse and worse.

Boomer and I decided we were NOT spending the night in the dog houses….no sire! Not tonight!

Because the wind and the rain and the ice were bad all night!!!

We woke up to a very cold morning! Mom started a fire in the fireplace; we all toasted until I just got too hot and HAD to go outside!!!

Mom wonders if the snow and ice have finished off the apple harvest. Mom says she hopes not.

Anyway …

Boomer and have stuff to do, we are off (he is that dot in the weeds) to check out how the farm and our wild friends did last night in that bad storm. As you can see we are just cold here, the rain didn’t really wet anything down, just turned to ice. As the sun has come up it melted.

“I’ll take it!” bayed Boomer. “Give me sun any day!”

Me too…that was enough for a while!

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Crossing the Canal

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Dayphoto

MOM!!!!

MOM!!! ARE YOU READY!!!!

MOM!!!

Can we go for a walk now?

Huh, Mom?

We are ready!!!!

Good! Here we go!

Houston is getting ahead….wait up Houston!

We have to wait for Fuzzy, Mom said.

Oh. Fuzzy is going to wait by the combines….that’s okay, Fuzz.

Whap, whap, thump. We’ll come back and get you.

LET’S GO!

COME ON HANK! We have to catch Houston!!!

Hummm…the canal. We’ve made it clear around the place and now there is the canal.

We HAVE to cross the canal to get to the other side!

Houston says she will go first—

Now Mom—

That’s good.

Now our Sister, Shannon.

Okay…ME!

Good now we are across… LET’S GO! Fuzzy is waiting!!!

WAIT!

Where is Hank?!?!

HANK PUFF!!! WHERE ARE YOU?

Hank?

You are STUCK?

You can’t cross the pipe?

Yes, you always fall in but you don’t have to fall in. Just walk really fast and you’ll make it.

Come on Hank!

Give it a good try!

Hank, come on.

Oh, you won’t come unless Shannon walks with you….but there is only room on the pipe for one dog at a time.

“It is okay, Hank, not a problem, just one paw in front of the other and you can do it” says Houston.

KEEP ON DOING IT….You are making it!

YAY, HANKIE PUFF!!!

We made it back to Fuzzy and everyone was good and tired. Ready for a break after that really hard walk across the pipe.

Have a good rest all. See Hank and Houston are already napping.

Yawn.

That really was a good hike!

Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — ‘tis Done – if not it Should Be

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Dayphoto

Boomer and I are so DONE with all this rain! DONE, let me tell you!

The world is wet, wet, wet! Although, not as wet around Estes Park and Boulder, but still very muddy here.

My feet are mud colored now, not white. Mom keeps them wiped off, but it’s useless the second I go back outside — and I LOVE outside!

BAM!

I have mud feet again!

Sigh!

The everyday, three times or more a day, changing of the water is done.

Over!

Stopped!

Finished!

Mom still takes us for a daily ride about…just to see what we can see.

Sam Cat says he’s done with the wet also…the mice are staying inside so everything is a tad boring for even him.

Cats’ sure sleep a lot don’t they? (Boomer and I don’t sleep, we just ‘rest our eyes’, cats snore. Snort, chuckle, laugh!

Anyway, just to let you know Boomer and I are ready for some sunshine…Beautiful Sunshine.

The rain keeps everything so wet the smells are all gone!

Until then I’m hanging out in the dry spot of the whole outside…just because, you see, I love the outdoors.

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — The Swallows Left

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Dayphoto

Yesterday, while Mom was washing the windows and the screen for the Living Room and the Dining Room the Swallows left the corn field – flinging themselves off the top of the corn tassels and into to the air to land on the electric lines way above our heads.

They gathered in huge bunches.

Mom hurried in to get her camera.

But well ….. I barked and barked at them — and they flew away.

I was sad.

So was Mom.

Mom said she wasn’t mad at me, she was just sad because when the Swallows leave the Hummingbirds will be next. After they leave it will start to freeze and the snows will come with huge winds that rip your face off your head.

She gave Boomie and me a huge hug and went back to washing screens.

We’ve been working with Dad in the New Hay field for several days now. The hay just wasn’t drying down.

This is Dad checking the hay to see if it is dry enough to bale.

Yellow Strips where the hay laid until it was dry enough.

Thankfully

last night we got the last of the hay bales

straightened

and Dad

got all but two loads hauled in.

Altogether he has ten loads!!! COOL!

He is hauling the last as I write this!

One of the raccoon’s ran through the yard last night….

Boomie took off after him, so today Boom says his knee is hurting rather more than usual.

Mom gave Boomer lots of pets and a dog aspirin in a SAUSAGE!!! (I got one also, but I didn’t tell Boomer!)

Well, the day is warming up nicely and I see a really nice hole that has my name on it. Boomer is resting his leg, but I think I’ll rest my eyes!

Talk to you tomorrow,

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Thunder

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Dayphoto

It’s raining here!

Lots!

Some much so Fuzzy and I have decided we don’t like it

You want to know why

THUNDER!

Thunder is terrible!

I didn’t used to be afraid but NOW I AM!!!

First you see a HUGE FLASH LIGHT

And then the SKY GETS REALLY LOUD

Like a GUN going off!

We have to hang with MOM all the TIME

Because it is just so SCARY!

Boomer and Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — The Liv’n is Easy

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Dayphoto

Mom and Dad have been really busy almost to the point of … way too busy. But life for Boom and I has been EASY!

There isn’t a thing about every day that we don’t like even the heat isn’t bad, we just lay in the shade or lay under the pick-up or go inside and lay around in the cooler air.

There are squirrels to chase
Little girls to follow here and there
And hay to help with
where Boomer and I help Mom fork the ends on the hay

Dad is waiting right now for the dew to start leaving so he can go bale. Then Mom and Boomer and I (oh, yes I forgot—Bella and

Zooker are spending the week with us so they will also go help) will go up and help Dad load hay.

Yep, the everyday I sing to myself—It’s Summer time and the Liv’n is Easy.

Fuzzy

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — The Bean Field

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Dayphoto

We’ve been helping Mom cut corn in the pinto bean field. She takes the cut corn stalks down to Misty’s to feed the goats…sometimes we go down on the four-wheeler with a load of corn, other times the corn is loaded in the back of the pick-up and hauled to the goats.

Once we get to the goats Hank Puff comes back with us. Hank LOVES riding in the back of the truck! So do Fuzzy and I.

We all just LOVE TO GO anywhere at any time!

The days have been really hot and muggy, but we still go out and help.

Dad helps us also…we go out early in the morning for a few hours. Then we all go back out around 7 in the evening. Fuzzy and I hang out and wait for them…Fuzzy stays in the shade by the four-wheeler and I wait by looking around and smelling what I can smell.

A couple of evenings the grand kids, their Dad and our Sister Misty came out and helped. Our other sister, Shannon did too. Things went faster that way. Hank came along to help me check out things.

Last night Mom and Dad and Fuzzy and I were all out in the field—the clouds were nice and fluffy when we went out

Then a storm blew in

The folks talked about heading in, but there was always just one more row to finish

So we stayed

It was awesome!

Storms here and there all around us!

Then suddenly we saw it —-

A beautiful rainbow

From one end of the field to the other end

Complete with the middle!

Mom and Dad kept on working until almost dark then they went and changed the water

As we were coming in I realized

THE PINTO BEAN FIELD WAS CLEAN!

No more corn!

Dad said, “It looks real nice, doesn’t it?”

Fuzzy and I barked yes and I whapped my tail on the ground. Fuzzy tried to wags his but he only has a little stump.

WE DID IT! Mom, told us “Thanks, boys! Everyone did a good job.”

Farmer Dog,
Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — The Heat Shimmers

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Dayphoto

We made it to OFFICIAL summer!

And it is HOT!

Not just any hot, but HOT, HOT, HOT!

It was 107* in Grand Junction yesterday and 102* here.

The heat shimmers off the land – even the crops look wilted and tired. On top of all that we have HOT—I MEAN HOT wind.

Although, when the wind stops no one can breathe….yesterday the wind stopped, that is how I know. Why even the chickens are panting. (Have you ever saw a chicken pant? The pant just like a dog…while their mouth is open their necks move instead of their tongues).

Fuzzy and I pant and pant and pant. Mom and Dad irrigate and Fuzzy plays in the water. Mom even picked me up and put me —! ME! — In the water.

I hate water.

But…gosh…it was well…NICE!

Then we rode on the four-wheeler and dried off.

After that we had to go to town so Fuzzy and I begged and begged and begged so WE got to go with Mom and Dad.

The heat is rather wearing but getting to go for rides

PRICELESS!!!!

Not only is it HOT, it’s also DRY!!!

Thanks for stopping by …. This coming week is the 4^th of July…(Fuzzy hates the fireworks) but we just might not have some here as there is a fire ban going on….Mom said we will have to call City Hall and find out.

Everyone have a nice and safe and fun holiday!

Boomer

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Thirteen Years and Counting

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Dayphoto

This is my BIRTHDAY month!

Mom says I have a whole month for a birthday! That is because she doesn’t really know when I was born! I was a lost dog when Mom and Misty found me.

I was also five years old when Mom and Misty found me.

You see I was ‘dumped off’ in the country by my other people. Since I am part Border collie and part Sheltie (that is what my vet says) I sat by the side of the road where they dumped me for days and days and days. Anytime Mom or Misty would try to get me I would run off…I was waiting for my people to come back, you see.

I waited until I went from 40 pounds to 25 pounds. I was sooooooooooo hungry I almost couldn’t run anymore. But I waited!

Then Misty came out with ROAST BEEF! That was it…I was Mom’s for life. Mom took me home and gave me lots of love and took me to the vet and well…here we are eight years later!

Since Mom brought me home in June that is when my birthday is…I get a whole month…because neither she nor I could figure out a good day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ME!!!

Dad had a meeting so Mom, Boomer and I did the water without Dad. We had lots to do.

A skunk got in one of the gated pipes so we had to get it out and then bury it.

WAY COOL!

Boomer and I wanted to sniff it up really well, but Mom didn’t let us…. “Leave the dead alone you guys!” she said.

We had to walk up to the middle of the pinto bean field and check on a pipe there…it was horribly HOT!

Then we rode the four-wheeler up to the hay field to see how the alfalfa was in the hay making process. Boomer jumped off because he smelled a cool smell and had to run home.

Then we sat outside and had a couple of really yummy Dog Treats and a milk bone for my Birthday while Mom watched the hummingbirds. And I got lots and lots and lots of pets. Boomer got some too, but it was my special day so Boomer had to let me have the most!