Oh! Please look up! There are so many beautiful things to see in the sky.
And this unique phenomenon is such a joy to experience!
Ice crystals at the edges of clouds.
I don’t see them often, but when I do! OH! THE EXTREME EXCITEMENT I FEEL!
(Taken with my cell phone—too fleeting to hobble to the house to get my camera) 🙂
From my world to your heart,
Linda
I love this time of year! The Earth smells fresh,
Clean! Full of rich natural nutritious food for all of us!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
-5* the next morning after the storm finally stopped
A cold designed to create stillness
While we waited for the air to start warming again
Waiting for the snow drifts to start melting (at least a bit)
Waiting, wary, because melt
always means ice!
Good night my friends!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
OH! WOW! POPCORN!
This is COOL!
Running here and there is FUN!
WAIT! I HEAR SOMETHING!
ROOSTER! MOM! ROOSTER!
RUN!
No, sweet hens. No rooster! You are safe. Very safe!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm life,
Linda
“Well,” Terry said, as he put on his coat and cap
“Off I go to play in the dirt!”
With those words, he was gone.
Back out-on-the-land!
So as you can [now] see, Terry is farming this year. The sitting idle watching someone else farm was agony for him last year.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
Joe sent me photos of the February’s Full Moon gliding over his home someplace way back East
A beautiful moon all glimmering and slivery up there splashing down onto the housetops and into Mr. Coopers camera…to come winging their way to me and then to you!
As for the February’s full moon here
I had to keep watch for a slit in the snow-laded massive wet clouds to capture anything of the moon.
There! Right there, drifting quickly through a wee tattered cloud while the cold nasty wind beat upon me and scuttled the clouds over the top of that gleaming moon
The moon was just there…brighter than all the black and grey clouds for a few seconds at most
Then the churning clouds splintered the silver light covering February’s full moon into roiling thrashing darkness of twisting heavy moisture.
But for a wee moment in time…I saw February’s Full Moon!
From my heart to your world,
Linda
So here is where I am…my ten year old computer is finished. Trying to do this with the I PAD—not a fun project.
We went to Best Buys in Grand Junction, Colorado this morning, spent an arm, a leg, two feet, one ear and four fingernails and purchased a new computer. Of course (according to the salesman) I had to get some other stuff, because my old stuff doesn’t work well with the new stuff.
Now my tech guy will have to come out and set me all up, because I’m not very confident I can do it by myself.
At least I will be up to speed some time soon…complete with Windows 10, which has me a little concerned.
Moving into the next century— with lightening speed and a lighter pocketbook,
🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We are seeing more and more of those darling little calves
There are 100 cows
So by the time farming starts
(First black baby)
There should be 100 calves.
That’s provided there are no problems along the way
So far there are no twins, or situations, where the calf becomes a bottle baby
It seems like everyone is a good mother…which is a very good thing. That means they are attentive to their calf; make sure the calf is fed and close by.
And, if it must be, there is always one or two cows who adore the calves. We call these cows the babysitter cows—you see, if you just must run to the water hole, or go hang out with the girls at the Upper End, you can always leave your calf with …. the babysitter. She adores all calves and takes very good care of yours and hers.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
It seems like the migration of the Sandhill Cranes and the Canada Geese has begun. The fields are always in rotation; the skies full of huge flying wedges of big birds. The bird book (for our region) says the Sand Hill Cranes and the Canada Geese start migration the last week of February and goes through the first week or so of April.
Eckert, Colorado’s Crane Days will start in March. March 10th, plus or minus a couple of days.
Spring…it’s coming to us anytime now.
Your friend on western Colorado farm,
Linda
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