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

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Dayphoto

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

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Dayphoto

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

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Dayphoto

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

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Dayphoto

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

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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?”

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on 2024 Friday—The Huge, GIANT Rain Event, Friday, October 18, 2024

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Dayphoto

Chapter 9, Mom Doesn’t’ Understand

“TLC C-C, What is the matter?”, Mom asked me as I came running toward her.

“Did something scare you? Look at your giant bushy tail! My goodness. What is going on?”

Mom picked me up and petted me.

“Your eyes are HUGE, TLC Cai-Cai, HUGE!! Did something chase you?”

MEOW!! MEOW! I screamed at her.

MEOW!!! YEOWL!

I jumped down and ran back toward the house.

“You want in?” Mom puzzled.

“Okay, you can go it. I don’t understand what has you so agitated, but, if you want in you can go in.”

Mom got up from what she was doing and started walking toward the house.

“Tell MOM!! We have to hide! In the house!!” I screamed at Boo Berry. “TELL HER!!”

Boo Berry started dancing and walking in front of Mom…getting in Mom’s way. Trying to get Mom to hurry to the house and get inside.

“BOO! Stop it! You are going to make me fall down.”

Mom reached down and picked up Boo Berry.

“HURRY MOM!!! HURRY!” I yelled.

Boo Berry was squirming and twisting so bad in Mom’s arms that she reached down and gently sat Boo Berry on the ground.

“Geez, I don’t get whatever has gotten into you two, but if you want in the house. Fine. Here, go it.”

Just about the second the back door closed, we heard Dad enter the farm yard.

Mom was still standing by the backdoor when Dad walked up and asked Mom if she would like to go with him to town. He needed a part. They could also get a wee snack at one of the Fast Food Places so she wouldn’t have to fix lunch.

“Okay,” we heard Mom reply. “Just let me get my purse and we are good to go!”

Mom opened the backdoor, and we started hollering at her…NO DO NOT GO! A BIG STORM IS COMING!!

She walked on through the house, picked up her purse, knelt down, and petted us talking soothing baby talk.

“It’s going to be okay.” I’ll be back in an hour or shortly after that. You are in the house now so whatever was out there you are safe now.”

With that, she shut the door, turned the key….and walked away.

Boo and I just looked at each other—

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on 2024 Friday—The Huge, GIANT Rain Event, Friday, October 11, 2024

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Dayphoto

Chapter 8, After My Nap

“Hey, TLC!!!”

“TLC!!!”

“Come on, come out from under the bed and let’s go outside!!? Boo Berry hollered at me.

I opened one eye.

YIKES!!!

There was Boo Berry staring me RIGHT in my FACE!! I mean RIGHT in the face! I could even feel her whiskers on my whiskers!

I jumped up. Hit my head on the bottom of the mattress, almost knocking me back down, crawled back up a bit slower; got out from under the bed.

Then was Boo Berry bouncing and prancing around, telling me to come on hurry—-Mom is getting ready to head outside.

I looked at her. Then I slowly, slowly stretched out my front paws as far as they would go, opened up my claws, and dug into the carpet.

“DON’T do that!!” Boo Berry screamed. “Mom doesn’t like it when you claw stuff!”

I just smirked. I drew my claws back in then stretched out my whole body, leaving my back legs and tail behind. Of course, I also stretched out my back claws to hang onto the carpet. (The back claws don’t work as well as the front paws, but they do a sorta tolerable job.)

“Come on! Mom is opening the backdoor!” With that Boo Berry was down the stairs and gone.

I heard the back door shut.

Hum…guess I wasn’t fast enough.

I sauntered down the stairs, into the kitchen, and jumped up on my special spot where my cat food is kept. (Mom gives me this special spot, preen, preen, because the dog would eat ALL my food and her food too.)

And I….don’t gobble my food down. I savor it. I eat a little, then I leave it, then I come back and eat a little more. Sometimes I refuse to eat it—just to keep things interesting.

For instance, I take two bites, look at Mom with horror on my face, then I try to cover it up like it is poop or something.

Or, I take two bites and gag…fish and turkey always make me gag. ACK! It is sooooooo nasty.

Beef is more like poop so I do try to bury it.

Now CHICKEN…that is a whole other story. Yummm, I like chicken.

Then again it must be the RIGHT chicken…

Oh!
The back door opened.

“Oh, there you are TLC. It’s time you go outside with Boo Berry and me. You’ve been it long enough. We’ve got things to do and stuff to see, and you need to be there with me doing and seeing.”

Mom picked me up, put a bunch of pets on my head (my favorite place), walked with me in her arms to the back door, opened the door, and out we went.

There at the backdoor sat that smiling pooch.

“See I told you Mom wanted our help!” Boo Berry said as she trotted behind Mom who was pushing the wheelbarrow.

I yeowed at Mom, picked up my feet, and started after Mom and Boo Berry.

When we got to the brick flower beds Mom stopped, and started doing stuff in the flower beds. Boo Berry sat down in the shade put her head and her paws and watched everything Mom was doing.

I climbed up onto the nearest bed and started watching Mom also, when suddenly— MY TAIL RAISED STRAIGHT UP and creepy crawly tingles ran up my tailbone.

MOM! I screamed MOM!

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on 2024 Friday—The Huge, GIANT Rain Event, Friday, October 4, 2024

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Dayphoto

Chapter Seven— I Think I Need to Find Mom

I got tired of looking for mice,

And lizards—boy, those are super-fast and fun to catch, or

a squirrel

I got tired.

Just plain old tired

I think I need to figure out where Mom is.

If I butter her up she will pick me up and carry me to the house.

If I can’t find her outside, then I guess I will go to the back door and wait for someone to either come in or go out.

MOM!

MOM! I yeowed

Oh! There you are Mom, purr, purr, rub, rub, purr.

“Oh, TLC my Cai-Cai, do you want Mom to pick you up and take you inside?” Mom reached down and put her hand on me.

Zip!

Up I went. Right onto her arms, so we could walk into the house together.

“Sure, is cloudy out here today,” Mom talked to me as we walked toward the kitchen.

“It would be nice if it were to rain, but no one is holding their breath. The heavy clouds are all over on the Uncompahgre Plateau. I am sure they are getting rain, which is a good thing.”

Then we were at the house.

I wiggled and squirmed until I could jump down and head over to my food bowl.

I am so tired of all this rain talk—Food and a nap. That’s all I want!

Slurp, slurp, yum, chew.

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on 2024 Friday—The Huge, GIANT Rain Event, Friday, September 27, 2024

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Dayphoto

Chapter Six— The World Has Turned Bonkers

Shhhhhhhhhh

Mouse

Right there

Careful

SHHHHHHH

I put one paw carefully closer to the mouse

SUDDENLY large hoofbeats came dashing down the road right next to where I was hiding in the weeds.

HUGE HOOVES!!

I looked up. Jumped a mile high, and tried to scramble out the way FAST!

It was our resident Buck deer.

Well, ONE of our residents Buck Deer.

“MEOWWWWWWWWW!” I screamed.

“SLOW DOWN!!! WHAT IS THE BIG HURRY!” I yowled at him.

“Huff, huff, pant, pant; Big storm coming in”, Ranger the Deer gasped between big breaths! “I’m trying to find the rest of the herd so we can high-tail it to the Back Forty and hide in the Black Forrest up there.”

“Big storm? Aw, come on. It’s not going to be THAT big you have to run crazy, is it?” I asked skeptically.

Ranger looked at me like I was — well, I was daft or something. “Hum yes, yes, it is.” He replied.

“I can feel it in my antlers, the velvet is tingling and my horns are vibrating. That only happens when something huge, big, and well, scary is coming down out of the sky.”

“Really”, I sat down and swished my beautiful big fluffy tail back and forth in the dirt. I’m not feeling anything super big and usually my tail gets all giant and sticks out every which way sending shocks down my spine.”

Ranger and I looked at my tail—I had to turn around but Ranger just walked over and stared at my tail.

Nope not big. No shocks going down my spine.

“Nothing here on this cat,” I said.

Just then the whole herd of deer pounded into view.

Running hard and fast.

“STORM! RANGER! STORM! WE GOT TO GET TO THE BLACK FOREST FAST!” They screamed as they flew past.

Ranger gave me a sideways look—“Guess you are on your own, TLC—-See ya later!” With that he was gone with them.

Shish…the whole world has turned bonkers. I went back to looking for mice.

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on 2024 Friday—The Huge, GIANT Rain Event, Friday, September 20, 2024

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Dayphoto

Chapter Five —– The Rain Moves In

It’s starting to cloud up. Yepper. Clouds on the Western Horizon—I told Boo Berry —“don’t pay attention, it doesn’t mean anything.”

“But what if there is thunder?!” Boo Berry’s eyes bugged out.

“Oh, heck, it will be so far away, way over there in on the mountains—so far away we can only sorta hear it.”

“Yeah, but… WE CAN STILL HEAR IT!!” Boo Berry shuddered.

“Oh, geez, just go in the house,” I replied. “In the house, you can’t hear thunder way over on the Plateau.”

With that, I picked up my paws and headed out to the grain bins. I only looked back once and saw Boo Berry staring at the back door wanting to get in.

What a dog, I muttered.

On the way to the grain bins, I ran into the hens again. They were scratching and clucking to each other…rather busy I thought, when suddenly, Skitter stopped and looked up at the sky. Cocked her head to one side, fluffed up her feathers in a very fluffy way, and muttered something to Silver, as she turned toward the henhouse.

Silver looked at her in a perplexed manner then started following Skitter toward the hen house.

I watched them for a spell, “Hey, where ya going? There are still bugs out here to catch and eat!”

“Not right now, cat! We’re heading into the hen house. Not worrying about eating we have lots to eat in our house: yummy lay mash, a halved cucumber, and a wee little bowl of dried mealy worms. See ya after the storm!” Skitter called as they ran into the hen house.

Storm! Everyone is getting sorta wrought over a storm that may or may not happen. Shish!

I passed the grain bin. Sat for a little bit in the road, trying to decide which farm road to take next. To the left is the gated pipe and grass field Dad cuts for grass hay. First Cutting is all he ever does on it. That is when the grass has bloomed and headed out making lots of protein-rich seeds.

That field has been cut, baled, and stacked. And I’ve played in there with Boo Berry until I am rather tired of that field.

To the left is the haystack yard, past that is the equipment storage area: the plow, a combine, all the necessary implements to work up the ground, you know, stuff like that—and, OH! YES! And the little headgate where the irrigation water splits to go to two different spots.