HURRY MOM! COME!
RUN, MOM!!!
BIRD! FIGHT!!!
Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai
We’ve been helping Mom and Dad make cement for the incoming ditches
It was a gradual process because Mom and Dad stirred up the cement themselves
They worked on it for a long, long time
TLC waited in the weeds…Me I moved all around looking and smelling. It was great fun!
We helped and we rested and we helped —whatever Mom and Dad did we were involved!
DONE!
We just wait for it to cure, Dad says.
Mom says we are great helpers!
TLC and Boo Berry
Seems like there is always, always
Something to do outside!
Dad is always outside—sometimes in the farm yard, sometimes on the farm land
Mom is outside most of time
So we go with her! (and each other)
Mom says we are the bestest of helpers. Always close to hand, always right where she is working
Mom says that way she doesn’t get lonely!
TLC and Boo Berry
Mom and Dad have been working to clean up that
HUGE branch that fell in the yard
TLC and I helped
TLC said let’s play over here…that way we are out of the way.
After a bazillion hours, it was time to go in
TLC beat me to the house—he went in with Dad
I had to wait for Mom
HURRY MOM!
Finally! She got there!
Boo Berry and TLC
I was out doing my thing:
You know–hunting!
When I decided to head out to the field to see if there were any field mice wanting to play with me
Yep…lots of big birds
Oh! Well. I started moving along the gated pipe, searching and searching, trying to coax at least one mouse out into the open.
While I was doing that a new flock of the GIANT BIRDS FLEW DOWN AND LIT RIGHT BY ME!!!
I tried to ignore them, but ONE DECIDED TO PECK MY HEAD!!! Mom washed my head—but I washed it better.
I AM NOT BIRD FOOD!!!
I ran as fast as I could back to the house!
It was a couple of days before I felt comfortable going outside.
Mom said to be careful for a spell. The cranes are starting to migrate
It won’t be long until they are all gone…but until then….
I need to stay in the yard!
TLC
There was then—-the grass was green, we had leaves on the trees
Out I would go early in the morning to spend the whole day outside
Now—the grass is dry, the leaves are gone and it’s been cold baby–so cold I had trouble staying outside
Still out I go with Mom and Boo Berry each and every morning
For after all there are things to do—MOUSE!

Stuff to play with —-LEAF
Smells to smell—ugh! Stray cat!
hot or not
There are things I need/must do
Until it is time
To go inside!
TLC Cai-Cai
Mom grabbed me up and loaded me into the pick-up with Dad and off we went
OH! MY! GOSH! HUGE! GIANT! ANIMALS!!! I sat on the pick-up seat and refused to get out!
Did I say HUGE!!!
THEY ARE HUGE!!!
Boo Berry

Well, well, well, looks what has arrived on the farm!
Guess I had better be careful to not get around all those hooves.
TLC
WOOF! WOOF! Come on Mom! We want in, too many big things on the farm!
TLC and Boo Berry