As the sky lightens; turning into a soft lovely lavender
The sunrise speaks of hope and new things to come
TLC and I feel like sunrise is just the perfect voice to chase away the shadows of nighttime. Swinging them into memory. Opening up new possibilities!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Mom will tell you all about our big four-day and four-night snow on Sunday… right now I want to tell you —-
I JUST LOVE MY NEW LIFE!!!
I have so many things I get to do, so many things I want to do, and things I didn’t even KNOW I wanted to do.
Like ride with Mom in the car!
Wait! Wait!
Back to the beginning.
My first 3 ½ years were spent in a kennel, hearing other dogs, and then getting to have a visit with a boy dog—that never lasted long, in and out kinda thing.
Then I got to come live with MOM and Dad and my very own cat, TLC!!
For the first two months, it was scary! I had issues with some things, like wetting the floor anytime I got afraid. (and I WAS afraid lots—but NOT any more 🙂 )
Although, it didn’t take me long to like to go “OUTSIDE” to do my private stuff. Mom always told me I was a GOOD GIRL so going outside was fun. And freeing. And Full of cool things to smell.
Anyway…that is a moot point. Mom and I have worked out a system of understanding and all is good.
You know, if I were a human, I would be 32 years old. I would be holding down a good job—kids growing up—you know—established.
Well! I am AM established!
I play with TLC. I go outside BY myself (sometimes, well, not often, only if TLC is with me)
I go on very long walks with Mom whereby I can sniff the news to my heart’s content.
I ride in my very own basket with Mom as she does ‘stuff’ on the farm.
And Now!
I can load myself up into the car, get over into the passenger seat, or on Mom’s lap and go for a car ride!
It’s no longer so scary I have to hide my eyes!
YES! I am getting Established! Four is a perfect age for me!
Boo Berry
Some paths are hard to walk
Some paths easy
All you can do is walk down the path until you come to the end.
Then at that point, you understand the path and your feet upon it.
From my heart to your world,
Linda
Baby, it’s cold outside
A flash of silver
Feather fluffed for warmth
On a freezing day in the afternoon.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I cooked the last of our pinto beans last night. The aroma of the beans earthy sweetness suffused the kitchen, welcoming us with a comforting embrace. (Eating beans and corn together supplies all the amino acids necessary for our bodies add in some ham; cook together until the beans are done. Serve with a hot chili pepper —- yum.)
Over supper Terry and I talked about farming this coming year. The big question: ‘Are you going to farm?’ Flashing loud and constant, like a neon sign. The second week of March is when the ground will need to be worked, the ditches made, the canal put in order, the seeds bought.
“I don’t know”, Terry shook his head. ” I really don’t know. But I need to be deciding I have to purchase the seeds (including the pinto beans—he plants Bill Zee pinto beans), the alfalfa field needs plowed up and moved….there are things I want to do to improve the place, a renter just can’t, nor should do.”
“I just don’t know.” He shook his head again.
“Besides I don’t want to be like our friend…he sold the farm, moved to town, grew so depressed because he didn’t have the farm anymore he rushed his move of the rainbow bridge one night.”
“That was terribly sad, for him and his family. But we are NOT going to sell the farm.” I pointed out.
“No, but Bob, rented his out and said it was the worst thing he ever did. No one could farm the place properly.”
I just smiled.
Then all the old farmers who are my age, keep asking me what I plan on doing if I don’t farm….die?!
“I just don’t know.” He said as he pushed himself away from the table. “I just don’t know.”
So here it is the million dollar question….with the clock ticking.
Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,
Linda
I have returned! What a glorious weekend…first day we celebrated Tallin’s 7th Birthday! Everyone came and showered her with very fun things to make and ‘stuff’ to do AND a Diary with a Lock and TWO KEYS! (Guess what she played with the most…the Lock and the two keys! 🙂
Today I was starting to clean up the house when I found the two keys places in a very safe spot, under a beautiful plastic heart. Aren’t children fun? I need to gather all things left behind and mail them to them. The keys will be most missed, I’m sure she is frantic. 🙂
The next day (Sunday) we went to a Mardi Gras Party at our daughter and son-in-law’s in Grand Junction. There was tons of food, some ingredients they had shipped in just for the occasion–several different types of gumbos, budan, beans and rice, cray fish…I can’t even remember all the different dishes they had.
Monday it was pack up and leave time, BUT before we said good-bye everyone went to the Shannon’s Salon (also in Grand Junction) for hair cuts, colors and whole new looks for the coming spring. I think the little family probably got back home to Craig, Colorado at 8 o’clock in the evening…a long day for them.
A cold front moved through yesterday, but we only received sprinkles and wind..Just enough wet to make the windows dirty!
Today I’m cleaning the house back up—you clean for the company then you clean after the company 🙂 –but everyone knows that.
Soon Terry and I will begin again on the winter farm projects–this time we will be hauling in dirt from one of the ‘settling ditches’ and building up our farm roads, dirt ditches and holes in the fields. Farming will start around the 10th of March, if the weather holds, so we must get the winter work finished.
I will be around soon to visit all of you!
Your Friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 