The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Chapter Seven Boo Berry Tells a Story, Friday, July 11, 2025

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Dayphoto

Well, It is good things are a go after all those beginning chapters.

Now I have a cat, TLC, and he has me.

He likes to rub against my body when he comes in from outside. I really don’t know what to make of all that, so I just stand there with a dumb look on my face.

I have a DAD and MOM!

And I get to go and do stuff!!!

I’m not very good at going to BIG things with Mom and Dad, but I’m getting better at it.

People like to stop and pet me, and I like for them to do so. But they have to be the ones to stop. I’m not going to run out there and jump on their leg.

Riding in the car or the pick-up is disconcerting—I keep thinking I’m going to wind up at someone else’s kennel.

But I never do.

I’m gradually getting the hang of riding. No, putting my head out the window—that is terrifying.

But I do like to sniff around once I get out.

Well, anyway, we’ve made it all the way to Now- and now I get to tell you about SQUIRREL! Or maybe SQUIRRELS!!

Read on to Chapter 9 to learn about SQUIRRELS!

SECOND CUTTING!!!! —- Thursday, July 11, 2024

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Dayphoto

I always, and forever, think of the Middle of Summer as the time when we make the second cutting of Alflafa

Yep! We are there! Second Cutting! The Middle of Summer! Time is flying by.

“Summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.:—Henry James

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

EAR WORM!!! (Ode to Summer) — Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Dayphoto

Summertime and the liv’n is easy (Terry would disagree)

The birds are singing and the corn is past the knee

The farm is thriv’n, and blue is the sky

Hush, little baby, please don’t cry

Each morning you rise up singing

You spread your wings and you fly

The earth is calm, nothing can hurt you

Hush little baby, time is flying by

Summertime and the liv’n is easy

Summertime and the crops are looking fine

Oh! Yes! It’s summertime —sweet baby–my doll

Hush little baby—for time is flying by!

From my world to your heart,

Linda

Happiness — Monday, July 11, 2022

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Dayphoto

Can you and I and other people be happy in this world?

For me, the answer is yes.

Happiness is different for each and every person.

And That, my friends, is a very good thing!

I celebrate the difference that makes you, you, and the joys that bring you happiness.
For, after all, that is really all there is for each of us.

From my heart to your world,

Linda

Summer, Blessed, Welcome, Delightful Summer —- Sunday, July 11, 2021

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Dayphoto

Although, we received no rain

The sun and the moisture in the air gave us

That glorious omen of

Hope!

The omen that told Noah…all will be okay!

From my world to your heart,

Linda

In that Brilliant Lance of Light —- Wednesday, July 11, 2019

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dayphoto

When that Golden Hour comes, not always, but when it does

It pushes light into every shadow, tosses dispair aside

Brightens the air, the ground; creating light so pure it collapses everything else.

Once there…the golden light creates its own shadows warping all living things into waves which ride the light.

The brilliant light that touches everything!

Then it’s gone.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

The Day Full of the Hum of Bumblebees—-Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Dayphoto

Summer….one thing about hot summer days and warm summer evenings is:

BABIES

Lots of babies…the Barn Swallow nests on our house there are about 8 nests all full of various stages of ‘kids’

I still have not seen any little baby hummingbirds…although, I keep looking and watching. I would have thought there would have been something by now.

But…not yet.

I will keep watch. Surely I will get to see something soon!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Clouds Skimming the World—Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Dayphoto

We received a reprieve late yesterday, from all the scorching sun and melting heat.

The night stayed thick with clouds…the stars hidden, the full moon unable to shine through the darkness.

Off and on through the night little patters of rain came…not lots, just enough to clear the air…leaving pockmarks on the very dry soil.

A Pheasant moved THROUGH the farm yard after the early morning sprinkle)

The dawn light came slowly through the sliver of grayness left behind; the wind started scattering the clouds.

Slowly, ever so slowly, in that time just before dawn, when light is neither bright or dark, when there are no shadows on the ground…when the trees turn black—-then the sky starts to pale

And the sun breaks forth, the clouds bunched into fluffy balls of sun-kissed color.

The birds, the plants, the farm, and my heart, all sang! Refreshed! We all feel refreshed!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

A Much Needed Break—Monday, July 11, 2016

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Dayphoto

Terry and I needed a break! We needed something to do that wasn’t related to the farm, something different—and close enough to the farm we would only be gone a few hours.

So off we went to the Uncompahgre Plateau.

Up there we ran into Hank and Angie Davis, as we turned onto the trail to Dry Mesa. Davis’ are the ranchers who calve out their cows on our place in the winter. They also live and ranch just below us in the Roubidoux Canyon. AND they live on the Plateau while the cows are summering up there.

A short ways in we ran into Bob and Lois Helgland and their son, also on their way to Dry Mesa. The Helgland’s live on the Plateau most of the year, but have another home two miles from us heading east.

Then we met our daughter Shannon and Jason on their way for a Sunday ride. We rode with them.

I always bring up the rear…I’m slow. I’m not on a ride to race. I’m on a ride to take photos

Although, I sometimes get so far behind I can’t see or hear anyone. It’s usually at that point I get concerned I took the wrong road and am now lost.
So far I haven’t. Which is a good thing.

By two o’clock we were back home setting water in the heat and the wind.

A nice break. One much needed.

Your friend,

Linda

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Dayphoto

We are having 20% chance of rain right now…which is rather nice actually. It isn’t raining here (right here on the farm), but it is raining around us in the mountains. We get to watch the clouds play across the sky then settle down on one of the hillsides and let down a little thirst quenching shower. What it brings to us is the cooling of the day…we’ve been hitting anywhere from 90* to 100*.

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I have been looking for rainbows, but there aren’t many yet. I keep looking; they are bound to appear since there IS rain around.

Linda