GIANT Rain Event | Life on a Colorado Farm

Chapter Two Just Wait, Boo Berry, You Just Wait

One thing Mom and Dad do every morning is check the weather. Dad looks at [only] one site, but Mom checks out three different ones. Then Mom rechecks it at noon. Mom is weather-obsessed.

Just say’n.

So—anyway, Mom and Dad look at the weather. Pronounce that we might get some rain, which would be a good thing; 30%.

“Actually, 30% usually doesn’t get us anything.” Mom mused. “Most of the time when they say 30% all that rain stays up on the Plateau never heading our way.” Mom got up from searching about the weather on her phone called Boo Berry and me and headed out the back door.

WAIT!!! Before I go any further the Plateau means, the Uncompahgre Plateau. (un-come-paug-re, that is how it sounds to Boo and I. Maybe you can say it a bit differently, but still, it gives you an idea).

We spent the morning, working with Mom—Dad headed out to change the water, Boo and I sat around in the shade, way too hot for sunshine sitting, and Mom worked in her yard.

Still, the day was a very beautiful! The sun was shining, the sky a bright blue, birds singing everywhere, big white fluffy clouds, and a soft, soft breeze ruffling our fur as we lay w….a….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz………

HUH!!!? WHA?!

“Wake up-TLC! Mom is heading out to the field for something. She asked if we wanted to go.”

“Go?! Is she talking that loud blue thing that has a blue box on it for YOU!!! (Not ME) to ride in?”

“No, no….hurry—we’re being left behind!” Boo Berry barked at me as she ran off to be with Mom.

Fine! Run off! I can run faster than both of you and I can beat you there! I stood up rather slowly, stretched out my front paws as far as they could go…ahhhhhhh, the old backbone feels good all stretched out. Then I stretched out my whole body so my back feet were helping pull my backbone the other way. Then I sort a stood there and gave my whole body and shake, even my ears!!!

By the time I got all this done, Mom and Boo Berry were turning the corner by the Butler Grain Bins.

I watched them disappear then I went from zero to ZOOM!

Yep! Just as I said. I caught up to them and even by-passed them; going so fast I made a mad dash into the field and hid.

Now all I have to do is wait for Boo Berry to walk by and I can jump out and scare her!

Hee, hee, hee.

Chapter One—Breakfast, No OUTSIDE

I caught a lizard!! Yes, I did! It was fast, fast, fast, but I was FASTER!!

Let us see, this is August. August is usually an over-the-top hot month, but NOT! THIS! AUGUST! I am loving it!

I go outside as soon as Mom lets me go. Which isn’t early enough, mind you. I would go outside the second the sky starts to turn light. Well, not really, like it just starts to get a grey sort of color.

Mom lets me go outside when SHE goes outside.
So silly, Mom. I’m a big boy I can take care of myself.

I tell Mom that and she says: “Not right now TLC, there are still foxes, coyotes, skunks, raccoons, and stray cats moving around out there. And YES(!) they are in the farm yard and even on the lawn. You just have to wait until I go do the chickens. By that time the sky is waking up, the birds are chirping sleepily and those nighttime creatures are heading slowly back to their bedrooms.”

Sometimes I just keep rubbing on Mom’s leg while she fixes everyone’s breakfast, but sometimes I bite Mom to get her attention. But the best thing I do (when I remember) is I lick Mom on the leg. That always gets me a big love on the face and a kiss on the nose. Rubbing Mom’s legs sometimes gets me pushed away, with her saying: “TLC you are going to trip me someday, Move over.”

If I bite Mom, I bite really hard and fast then I run really fast to the back door hoping she will be mad enough that she will want to open the door and let me peel out. It never works. She just lets me sit there while she keeps on fixing everyone’s breakfast.

STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT BOO BERRY!!! STOP IT!

Well, if you would just come over here and sit quietly by the chair leg, I bet you would still get your food. That’s what I do and I still get my food.

Yeah, but—-she won’t hurry! I want her to HURRY!

I’ve been watching for a long time now and Mom doesn’t hurry. It takes her the same amount of time every morning. EVERY morning, TLC.

But…But if I can get her to hurry, and I can get a couple or two of licks on the cat food into my tummy Mom will head out to do the hens! AND WE CAN GO WITH HER!

Nope. Doesn’t matter if you get a couple of licks of cat food or not, when Mom gets the chicken food ready that is the only time we go outside.

Try it sometime….just sit over here by me. Stare at mom with a big excited smile on your face and watch. First Mom gets your cat food and puts it in a dish, then she gets my dog food and puts it in a dish, then she gives it to us.

You take two licks of food, jump down, and rush to the back door. Me, I just let the dog food sit, it’s not going anywhere.

Don’t do that!! TLC, just sit here and watch.

Now, while you are meowing at the back door Mom is working on the Chicken food.

See.

Ah…here we go—Mom, a big dish of chicken food, me right behind Mom, and you screaming at the back door.

If you would just sit here you can make it to the backdoor just before Mom and you can peel out the second she opens the door.