Someone is coming!
Guard the door!
Don’t be silly.
It’s our cousins!
Apollo (the red one) and Loki—here for a week while their family goes to Las Vegas!
Company!
TLC Cai-Cai and Boo Berry Betty
TLC and I went outside to
PLAY!!!
But—
Dad was backing up that big
Scary
Machine.
(This was taken two weeks ago)
So, we ran back inside!
Mom told us Dad was going out to see if the rain made it
Too muddy to get back out
On the Land.
Guess what?!
Dad is BACK ON THE LAND!
TLC and Boo Berry
TLC and I had a big play out in the alfalfa field
It was lots of fun
We had Run
Play
Sniff
This was while we were on a walk with Mom.
Dry dirt is just the best!!!
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mom heard another big storm is heading back in here
NO!
No more this
Or This
Or ANYTHING Like THIS
We want the farming season to begin,
which means DRY!
So, we can PLAY!!
TLC and Boo Berry
The wind came. (see my ruffled fur)
And the slick ice
and the mud
And then another round of snow
Then more wind. (See the wind in our hair)
Mom says it’s the end of February and all this won’t last. She says it will probably be here until the middle of March, and it will just go away!
We sure hope mom is right.
TLC Cai-Cai and Boo Berry Betty
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
Guess what my favoritist thing to do is?
Go on a walk with MOM!
I don’t care where we go.
We can go—
Here
And THERE
And well—not where the horses are, they are scary.
We can go with Kya and Black Beauty and Shannon
We can go to the hen house
Or into the yard
I really don’t care.
Just so I’m with MOM!
Boo Berry Betty
Oh
Yes
I
Can!
Sometimes RUN FAST! EVER SO FAST!
You have to be
FAST
Because we have
A HAWK
That lives around here.
TLC Cai-Cai
Because we sometimes have weather like this
Mom thought I had better have a coat
A COAT!!!?
What does a girl do with a COAT?
I showed Mom.
I just stood there and would NOT move.
Finally, Mom took it off so I could walk around.
(She isn’t going to trap ME in a coat!)
Boo Berry Betty
Thank you ever so much!
This is my birth month.
Mom doesn’t know the exact day
And neither do I.
We just know that the vet said I was probably born
Around the first of the month of January,
Give or take.
So Mom always says HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the First Friday of the Month of January.
That works for me!
And for Mom.
So here I am TWO YEARS OLD
And King of the family!
(Don’t I look like a king? 😊 )
Beautiful, wonderful, Darling, Mom always says to me!
TLC Cai-Cai
Life on a Colorado Farm 