Posted on July 8, 2025 by Dayphoto

And No hay down! YAY!

This is from my archives —- but, still—-it happened and looked the same

WE GOT RAIN!!! Thursday late afternoon, we got rain! Lovely, delightful, rain!

Only one day. But no hay was down, so it was just perfect!

Word of the day: Petrichor (n) pet/re/chor: The wonderful smell in the air after it’s been raining.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Up, Up, and AWAY!!! —- Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Posted on July 9, 2024 by Dayphoto

The Hot Air Balloons were here from the Fourth of July through the Sixth of July!

Getting set up

First they fill it with cold air

Then they add the hot air which gives them Lift Off

17 balloons, plus crew were here

It was a joyous feast for the eyes!

One by one they took to the sky.

Beautiful! Beautiful!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Oh! Those Wonderful Amazing Fireworks — Monday, July 8, 2024

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Dayphoto

This last photo is the last blast of beautiful!

God Bless America!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty on Friday—-Getting Use to My New Life, July 8, 2022

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Dayphoto

First off—everything was very scary! Very! But gradually I am getting used to everything.

I’ve been here 9 days now.

Nine very eventful days.\

I’ve met Black Beauty, TLC Cai-Cai, all my human sisters and my humans’ brothers-in-law, and Mom’s granddaughter Tallin. It’s been a lot!

I have also gone on several four-wheeler rides, the first time in Mom’s arms then I got my own four-wheeler seat.

Once I get off the four-wheeler I get to help Mom and Dad change the water

While they are doing that I sniff up and down the ditch bank.

(All the fast running water scares me so I stay away from it.)

On my last trip up to the new Alfalfa field I found something I didn’t know existed—

COYOTE POOP! Oh! The! Joy! I sniffed all over it then laid down and squiggled my body all over it. I was in Heaven.

It was at that point Mom yelled at me!

“BOO STOP IT!”

Shish. My dirty nose and face are just fine, Mom!

Back home I got WASHED!

Geez.

Anyway…I’m home. It’s nice. Mom says I’m becoming a FARM DOG!

Boo Berry Betty

Where We Are, What We Are Doing— Thursday, July 8, 2021

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Dayphoto

The heat is back…hot like the underside of burning logs

The day starts so brightly, if you shut your eyes the light stays under your eyelids for a long, long time

Sometimes the clouds build up around us..skimming flat over the plateau

and a wind bends the long grasses this way and that

Then the clouds move on being pushed somewhere else. (Which is a good thing with the alfalfa turning into hay)

The first field of alfalfa is now being baled and hauled.

The second field has been cut and is drying into hay—-

Our days busy, busy with the back and forth of this and that.

2nd cutting of hay: First field is done, the second field in the process, the third field still to go.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

That Lovely Shimmering Bright Glowing Moonlight—-Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Dayphoto

Although, the heat simmers across the land, often times the night sky is cloudy

But, delightfully, the setting moon’s sky is clear

Shinning large and bright glowing over the Uncompahgre Plateau

Then quickly sinking as the glowing sun wakes up the day.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

Riding the Sky in a Rush—Monday, July 8, 2019

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Dayphoto

Looking up

In that impossibly wondrous sky

Are those marvelous flying machines

Traveling from here to there and even beyond, into worlds not known

Part of the heavens, yet still of the earth.

From my world your heart,

Linda

An Update on the Duck—-Sunday, July 8, 2018

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Dayphoto

Since the duck was white, everyone decided she needed to be named something from the movie Frozen. So, Elsa, she became.

I rigged up a wee pond, a pallet fence, gave her all the food and water she wanted and we all settled into watching Elsa enjoy her new life with us.

Then checking my FB messages I found out, that Elsa had a home. About a mile from here, way up the canal with two really big headgates in the canal. She lived with 8 other ducks, 6 big dogs, two little dogs, several horses, a sheep and two tiny tots.

So Terry and I and our youngest granddaughter loaded up Elsa and took her back home.

When we drove into the yard, Elsa started getting very interested, even excited, she knew she had come home!