The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Best Presents Ever, Friday, January 3, 2025

This is one holiday I LOVE!

I got presents from one room to the next

PURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFET!

TLC Cai-Cai

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Almost the End of the Year, Friday, December 27, 2024

Mom says it’s almost the end of the year.  Whatever that means.

End!  End of the year?  What does that mean?

I don’t see any end.

Everything pretty much seems the same to me.

Sometimes you are annoying, Boo Berry!

MOM!!!! MOM!! I want to come in and have a nap!

MOM!!!

“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
TLC

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Patrol, Friday, December 20, 2024

These THINGS are here now!

I must look at the farm from a different angle—can’t get out there and get stomped on.

Yes!  They do try to stomp on cats!

Or kick them and watch them fly through the air.

So…nope! No way am I patrolling by the grain bins, the equipment storage area, or the edge of the fields.

Nope, no way.

(Me either!!! Boo Berry)

TLC

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Shadows, Friday, December 6, 2024

We haven’t seen our shadows for a while…but they are back!

TLC and I like Shadows.

Mom likes shadows more than I do.

TLC doesn’t like his shadow to be seen, but he does like to see the hawk’s or the owl’s shadow because that means HIDE!

The days are cold and dry, but they do warm up a tad around noon to three,

so Mom, TLC, and I go for a walk,

and Mom looks for Shadows!

Boo Berry and TLC

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Black FRIDAY, Friday, November 29, 2024

I wonder why they call it Black Friday.

It’s not very black today.  Actually, I’ve never really seen a BLACK day….some pretty dark nights, but never black truly.

When it’s night I wouldn’t call it black—pretty dark, but never Black.

I’m black, well, parts of me are.  There is a wild black kitty that lives somewhere here on the farm, but not a BLACK day.

Hoomans are soooooooooo strange!

Boo Berry

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-FUN! FUN! FUN!!! ‘Till Momma Takes it Away, Friday, November 22, 2024

My oldest human sister bought me an amazing gift!

It sounds like a real bird, it flops like a real bird and tastes like a real bird.

I LIKE IT!

Mom is always taking the real birds away from me.  She says I can’t eat real birds only mice. She then puts the real birds somewhere….I look but I can never find them.

Wherever Mom puts them I hear Mom say—“Now you are safe!  Heal quickly and fly away.”

I have to really attack this bird so Mom will leave it alone.

BIRD! BIRD! BIRD! BIRD IS THE WORD!!!!!

TLC

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-CORN HARVEST, Friday, November 15, 2024

BIG MACHINES!!!

All in the yard

Moving THROUGH the YARD

RUN TLC RUN!!!  It’s Corn HARVEST!!!

Boo Berry

 

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on 2024 Friday—The Huge, GIANT Rain Event, Friday, November 8, 2024

Chapter 12 Mom and Dad Come HOME!!!

“Hey, Boo! You can crawl out from under the bed now. The storm is all gone!”

“I want Mom!”  Boo Berry whined.

“Well, Yeah, Me too!” I replied.

“We just have to wait.”


Just then we heard Dad’s big pick-up coming down the road.

THEY ARE HOME! 

We both jumped in the window and watched the Big Pick-up drive down the Long Lane and make the Corner over the bridge to the yard!

Then the pick-up just Stopped!

“THEY ARE HERE! “  Boo Berry screamed. She jumped down, with me right behind her; peeling down the upstairs steps until we got to the back door!

THEY ARE HERE!!!   We are so ready for them—

Meanwhile—

“Gosh, it looks like it really rained here while we were gone,” Dad observed

 

Just then he turned the corner to go over the bridge—

“OH! MY! WORD!” Mom exclaimed. “I’ve never, ever seen rain like this here EVER!”

Dad slowly drove through the huge lake, opened the garage door, and parked.

“I’m going in to see how the fur kids are doing.  It must have been a scary storm!”

Mom walked to the house and opened the back door.

“Oh! You are here!”  Mom bent down and scooped both of us up into her arms.  “There must have been a horrible rain here, but you look okay.  It’s a good thing you weren’t outside, TLC!  A very good thing!”

You got that right. I thought to myself.

Dad walked in…” Well, we just wait, the takeaway pipe will drain everything into the canal, but it might take all night.  That was a LOT of rain!”

Yep, Dad was right.  The water drained away overnight and gradually everything became puddles.

That was a HUGE big Storm! Boo Berry and I remarked to each other.

“I’m sure glad your tail warned us.”

“Yep!  My tail knows!”  I swaggered onto the grass and flopped down.  My tail always knows!!

TLC

The End

 

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on 2024 Friday—The Huge, GIANT Rain Event, Friday, November 1, 2024

Chapter 11, It Has Arrived!!!

Well, we can’t really see anything, so I’m going to take a nap.  I crawled under the bed where I have the bestest perfect sleeping spot.

I was just closing my eyes when I heard Boo Berry jump down and pad downstairs.

Ahh….sleep, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

HUH!!!!?  What?  MY TAIL is HUGE!  A BIGGER TAIL THAN I EVER HAVE HAD!!!  And all my fur is standing up!

I jumped up and ran downstairs.  “BOO!” I yelled.  “Get Up we have to see what is happening outside!”

Boo Berry jumped up, eyes half-opened.  “up! Up!  UP!! I’m up!  Now what?”

“Get Up where you were and tell me what you see!”  I ordered.

With that I jumped up into my recently vacated window!

“OH! BOO! It’s here!  The Big Storm is here!”

“Hide!”  We both yelled at the same time.  “HIDE!”

UNDER THE BED! Boo!  Under the Bed!

 

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on 2024 Friday—The Huge, GIANT Rain Event, Friday, October 25, 2024

Chapter 10, Now What?!!!

“Now what!!?”  I looked at Boo Berry, “Now what do we do?”

Boo Berry just looked at me with huge, huge, bug eyes and started shaking and shivering.

“You are helpless,” I said.

“No, I’m not, but I’ve never lived where a big storm could come and get me.  I lived the first three years of my life in a small cage with a blanket for a bed and no windows.  I have only experienced storms HERE!  With you and Mom and Dad!!  And Mom or Dad or both of them are always here with us.  I have never had this happen before ever! “  Boo Berry explained.

I just looked at her.  Shook my head in sad dis-belief, and walked over to the kitchen window.

With a graceful leap I placed myself on the ledge of the kitchen window.

Suddenly my tail bushed way out and the fur on my back started raising way up.

“What do you see out there?”  Boo Berry asked me.

“Nothing.” I replied.  Blue skies, a few very fast moving clouds, and wind.  Not the over-the-top kind of wind that took out the willow tree branch but a kinda wind I really don’t like being in.  The kind that ruffles up you fur, if you know what I mean.”  I explained to Boo Berry.

Nothing.  But my tail says there IS something, I mused to myself.

“Maybe we can see something upstairs.  If you look out the bed window and I look out the office window maybe we will understand what your tail is trying to tell us.” Boo Berry suggested.

“Sounds like a plan!”  I jumped down out the kitchen window and raced as hard and fast as I could through the house to the stairs, Boo Berry just behind me eating my dust.

Quickly I jumped onto the bed, then up onto the window sill.  Turning slightly I saw Boo Berry hop onto the sewing machine chair, then over onto the cedar chest and push her nose against the window trying to see if there is a reason my tail is so bushy.

“What do you see?” I yelled.

“Nothing!  Just a lot of fast-moving clouds, the wind moving the leaves around in the tree, and the blue sky starting to grow smaller.”

“Yeah, that’s about what I see also.”

I jumped down, Boo Berry jumped down.

“Now what?” I wondered out loud, “what now?”