My second Rainbow of the year!!!
What a glorious sight!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
MY Second One of the Season — Thursday, July 2, 2026
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We’ve Decided to Take Wee Trips Now and Then— Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Since all work and no play make Terry and me EXHAUSTED!!! We decided to go somewhere close (a day-trip, if you will) once a week. This time we headed to Collbran, Colorado, by the route of Grand Mesa. (Click on the blue links to learn more)
The ski resort on Grand Mesa
Still snow up there on the rims
From Collburn, we turned toward Vega State Park. Then we turned onto a side road heading the back way to Silt, Colorado
Yep, we went by this
Back roads all the way—gravel part of the way
Then on to Silt, and after that
To Rifle, Colorado, where we stopped for a late lunch at Dickey’s Barbecue. YUM!
Then home again, home again…ready to take on the work.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Gift 3,— All the Way from Ohio to Colorado —- Tuesday, July 2, 2024
“Here is a rainbow for you—coming to us after much-needed rain”
Randy
What a stunningly beautiful rainbow! I love the color of the sky and the reflection on the earth.
Thank you so much,
Linda
Remember This from GRADE SCHOOL?!??!—Sunday, July 2, 2023
Tweet, Tweet, Little Birdy
Rock’n Robin is also an earworm
Sometimes I mix the two songs up in my head
She flies up high, and she flies down low
He rocks in the treetops all day long
Hop’pn and bopping and singing his song
Living and loving in the sun
Little Birdy Tweet, Tweet, Tweet.
Now you get to have those two songs running around in your head all day long!
Thank you—I like to share! 🙂
Rock’n Robin —Tweet, Tweet, Tweet!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Adventures of TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-A FRIEND! A FRIEND! YAY! —- Friday, July 2, 2021
I have new friends.
Loki-ta-Moki
Came to visit!
I got to play with his TAIL!
Loki LIKES ME!!!
LIKES ME!!
YAY! Another FRIEND!
TLC Cai-Cai
Well-Come Summer Days and Summer Work —- Thursday, July 2, 2020
Here we are, the start of July — a time to me as a time of pleasure-
Next week will be the second cutting of the First field of alfalfa—the air will be full of that indescribable sweetness of green
We’ve been cutting brush…a tiny victory which has no truce—seems there are always ‘brush’ to trim 🙂
The corn is growing and growing—
Terry is standing on top of the ditch bank
the cornfield is lower than the farm road
Summer is such a favorite time of the year, for me
Time of heat, color, and joyful little birds
Moving on through the farm
The pastures are looking good, rich, green, lush
No way can I stand on the ditch like Terry…I would fall in!
Summer, when the sun starts moving back toward winter
But, everything else, myself included
Continues to dream-walk through the warmth, the heat, and the beauty of Summer
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Sun, That Sky—Makes Me Sing Hallelujah — Tuesday, July 2, 2019
The sky has been just wonderful the last few days
The colors swirling and dancing as the sun rises and sets
Storms building up on a daily basis
Bringing thunder, lightning, and raindrops
Then the wind shifts the clouds moving them into swirls of patterns
So the light breaks through them and seems to actually shimmer
Sometimes cooling us down to a feeling like Fall is soon to happen.
Still the sky, the sun, the moon, the wind
All murmur in huge [brilliant] voices
Come outside and be with me
Let me fill your mind, and soul and all the shades of your heart
For the Time is swiftly passing.
From my heart to your world,
Linda
Update on Boomer and a Giant Ray of Hope—-Sunday, July 2, 2017
The vet gave Boomer a shot and some pills. Those two things gave me hope. And the fact Boomer is starting to want to eat again. For the longest time he would eat and throw it right back up.
The problem is he is coughing and coughing and coughing. I knew it wasn’t Kennel Cough he gets his vaccines regularly. But what was it?
Going to the vet helped me and, of course helped Boomer. I sat with him for an hour after we got home on Friday, just sat there, petting him, holding his paw, helping him relax. The relaxing is the good…he doesn’t get panicked that way.
If he stays relaxed the coughing lessens; and the shot and pills can work.
So gradually over the day Friday, then Friday night…on Saturday he wanted to eat breakfast—YAY! Huge improvement.
Still coughing, but not as much. AND he wanted to go with me to do the water and work on the hay bales. He didn’t want to get off. Just ride.
HUGE improvement!
NOW WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?! The only thing I can think of, was one night one of our outside camera caught a stray dog walking down our farm lane. It was extremely thin; bones sticking out everywhere. It was walking with a curve in its spine, leading me to think….is this dog was sick/ someone dumped it out here?
There was a collar mark on it’s neck. Were these people Not wanting to take care of their dog? If so they passed the illness onto to whomever and wherever the poor thing traveled.
Boomer started acting sick on Tuesday, then on Friday I was afraid I was going to lose him. My heart was breaking, but I was determined to help him, if I could.
After the vet visit and the sitting and loving and caring for my little beaglie I came upstairs to the office and checked my email.
There is was:
A beautiful double rainbow…a sign of hope and comfort.
Joe Cooper wrote: I hope you are having a great evening.
I just took this.
(I then asked if I could publish this symbol of hope, which I needed so badly, and he said yes.)
Then he said something else, which brightened my day even more:
“I enjoy reading your blog, and I find it comforting and makes for a better day for me. So how could I not try to give back?
Have a great Independence Day!”
Joe Cooper
What a perfect gift —- reflecting dazzling multi-hued light, lifting the shadows on Boomer’s and my days.
Maybe by Monday this madness while be gone and Boomer well again. I’m living with Lysol spray, soap and hot water, clorox, and a shovel to bury waste, so no other animal will come down with this nasty illness.
As for that poor dog…. A pox on whoever dropped it off.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
First Light—Thursday, July 2, 2015
Gradually, gradually the day starts to wake…the shadows of the night slowly lifting as the gray light filters in.
Tiny, as my thumb, the hummingbirds arrive at the feeders; their buzz and chirps blending in with the small melodious calls of the other birds who are shaking sleep off and welcoming in the day!
Morning, the beautiful beginning of another day!
Your friend,
Linda
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