Although it is Friday—The Fur Kids are Taking a Break, Instead We Get to See a Rainbow, Friday, January 13, 2023

Dear Linda,
We’ve had so much rain over the past months, here in Auckland New Zealand, but the sun shone yesterday at the end of the day and the rainbow rose out of the sodden land with ease and grace; a welcome surprise. It was so high and large that I could photograph only a portion of it.
 
I thought of you, and then when I came inside, your latest blog post arrived!
 
I love your blog and read them all, even though I don’t always comment.
 
Best wishes,
Juliet
Oh! Juliet!  What a perfect gift!  We have been having lots and lots of long grey days.  To see the green and the rainbow is so uplifting and perfect!

Thank you ever so much!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-My Birth Month, Friday, January 6, 2023

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

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Getting Closer, Friday, December 23, 2022

It’s been super cold here.

Like almost Zero cold

We don’t like going outside.

But we do. (Business to take care of, you do understand)

Sometimes we go with Mom

Sometimes we run out the door with Dad

But

Mostly we stay inside by the fire

Just say’n.

Oh! Yes!  It’s almost Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-A Dogs Purpose as I Understand It—,Friday, December 16, 2022

I’ve been here since June.

It’s taken me a while to understand what I am supposed to do

Before it was: be pregnant, then meet the boy, then be pregnant again.

Now THAT is finished and done with.

So—here is my New purpose in life—

Guard Mom and Dad and sometimes TLC Cai-Cai. (Just sometimes)

I follow Mom everywhere!

And I do mean EVERYWHERE!

I growl at the door when something or someone strange is there

I’ve learned to help put up the chickens — only when Mom tells me too

And I have enjoyed immensely going on walks with Mom.

I have grown to the place I can go outside by myself for a short while.  Not long I get worried about Mom and the house, and my soft beds.

But Still.

I haven’t learned how to sit on a lap and relax yet, but I do like to ride on Mom’s lap in the truck and look outside.

Oh! Yes! And I love going in my little blue box for rides on the four-wheeler.

Mom says I am getting better and better about learning how to

Just be a dog!

YAY! ME!

Boo Berry Brown

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-A Cat’s Purpose, Well, at Least Mine, Friday, December 09, 2022

You might think a cat’s purpose

Is to sit on your lap and purr.

Nope.

Not my purpose.

I only sit on Mom’s lap WHEN I WANT TOO

If she picks me up

I jump right back down.

Now if I JUMP up,

then YES,

I will sit there and let her pet me and I will purr.

For me

My Purpose

Is to protect the farm

And I take it very seriously

I travel here

And there

And all over.

After all—

The dog just stays in the house

Unless she is with Mom.

Just Say’n,

TLC Cai-Cai

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-COWS!!!! COWS!!!!, Friday, December 2, 2022

Traalalalla—“Let’s go do the chickens with Mom, Boo Berry.”

“Okay, doaky.”

“Bye—I’ve got stuff to do.”

“Not me, I stick to Mom like glue.” Boo Berry Betty replied.

“Works for me.” TLC Cai-Cai hollered as he took off to do whatever it is he liked to do.

“Come on Boo Berry, we’ve got stuff to do.  This is a big day.”

Mom scooped me up, put me in the pick-up with Dad and we headed down to —I don’t know where.  I can’t see out, and I don’t like to look out.

Then we were there.

And so was a big truck and a HUGE truck Mom called a semi.

Oh!

My!

GOSH!

BIG ANIMALS!

Shudder and shake

“You stay in here, Girly Girl”, Mom said, as she gave me a kiss on the nose.  “The cows have come!”

Wow! Those are HUGE ANIMALS!

HUGE!

It wasn’t long before we were heading back to the house.

There I met TLC — “HUGE ANIMALS HAVE ARRIVED ON THE FARM!”  I barked at him.

“I know,” he replied.  “Cows, they come this time every year.  We have to be careful around them and not get kicked.”

“I don’t plan on ever being around them,” I expounded to TLC Cai-Cai.  “Those feet are bigger than the both of us!”

“Yep, you are right.  Hey, race ya to the house.  Whoever gets there first gets to get in first!”  TLC took off in a mad dash.

“You can’t beat me!” Boo Berry Betty ran equal to TLC Cai-Cai arriving at the back door at the same time.

“You silly little creatures,” Mom reached down and petted us. “You can’t go in until I open the door.”

As soon as the door was open, TLC ducked under and flew right into the kitchen—Boo Berry right behind him

“What would I do if I didn’t have you crazy cute animals to liven up the day?” Mom laughed as we all tumbled into the kitchen.

“Whew, Boo Berry…thankfully there are no cows in the house!”

“Yes! What a terrible thought that is.  But we are safe in here.”

YAY! 

Boo Berry Betty

and TLC Cai-Cai

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Teasing the Dog, Friday, November 18, 2022

I know!

I know!

The dog is still learning

How to be a

DOG!

But—

As you well know

I am bigger

Taller

And I even weigh

More

Which means

I AM SMARTER!

So—

Just for fun…

I LOVE to tease the dog!

Like  When on a walk

Show her something  Unique

Like the water tube

I run to the tube

Look in the tube

Meow

The dog comes over

Looks into the tube

I encourage the dog

To go INTO the tube

She does!

Gullible, you know

Then she comes out

And asked me:

“What was so neat about that?”

“Nothing,” I reply.  “Nothing.”

TEE HEE

TLC Cai-Cai

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty on Friday—-Big Exciting Day, Friday, October 21, 2022

I GOT TO GO!!!

Mom and Dad and Shannon and

Black Beauty and

Kia and

ME!! ME! MYSELF! And I!!!

 We all got to go check fences and build fences.

It was wonderful!

WONDERFUL!

Mom said she had to watch me carefully because I am so little.

I don’t get why; I just did what the big girls did!

There was so much stuff to learn about—Kia found something really exciting in the corn field—she barked and barked and barked at it.

I didn’t go with her, I stayed with Black Beauty.

Then Black Beauty found us something yummy to eat.  HUMMMM

Shannon yelled at her and took it away. When she took the yummy from Black Beauty, she took my morsel away from me.

“We don’t need you throwing up later,” Shannon explained.

We moved through Rabbit Brush, Chico’s,

cattails, up rocky hills, across grasses pastures— it was wonderful.

JUST WONDERFUL!

TRA LA LA LA LA!!!


Boo Berry Betty

(P.S. Some photos are from the archives, I wasn’t very good at taking lots of photos when there was so much to do.  Sorry!  But it does give you an idea of everything we did. 🙂  )

The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai and Boo Berry —SCATTER— Chapter 12, Friday, October 14, 2022

“I want in—Don’t you TLC Cai-Cai?”

“Yeah.”

“I want in now!”

“Well, I think you are going to have to wait.” TLC Cai-Cai replied with all the wisdom of a cat.

“Why?  Where is Mom? Where is Dad?”

“Let me look” TLC Cai-Cai responded.  “Inside. Dad is inside.”

“I WANT IN NOW———HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

“Oh, hush! Mom is out here somewhere.  Dad is inside.  He doesn’t listen when you cry.”

BAM!

“WOW! What was THAT?!” Mom asked as she came around the corner with her wheelbarrow.

Suddenly Dad was at the back door.

“WHAT was THAT?” We all asked Dad.

“It sounded like a gun!” Mom exclaimed.

“It was—Dove season has begun. And our new neighbors are sighting in their guns.” Dad explained.

BAM!

“Oh, geez, Get in the house quick, Fur Kids…. guns and little animals don’t mix AT ALL!”

Mom opened the door.

You know the rest of the story—run inside and SCATTER to our favorite places to hide!

Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai

P.S. This is the end of SCATTER.  Story Over.  TLC Cai-Cai 😊

The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai and Boo Berry —SCATTER— Chapter 11, Friday, October 7, 2022

Mom and I!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHH!

That’s how I like it.

Mom and I.

Although, I do like The cat!

And I do like being

WITH MOM WHEN I AM OUTSIDE!

I don’t like outside

If Mom is Inside and

I am outside.

If something HUGE

shows up

TLC Cai-Cai

And

I

SCATTER!
Boo Berry Betty