4. Chapter Four Boo Berry Tells a Story, Friday, June 6, 2025

OH!  MY! GOSH!

My new pen was HUGE!!!

I MEAN HUGE!!!

Mom showed me everything—here is the kitchen, Boo Berry. (Mom calls me Boo Berry.  I finally get to use the Berry part of my name 😊  ).

“This is where we eat, and you will eat here also.  TLC will eat up here because I don’t want you to eat TLC’s food.  He won’t eat your food, because he doesn’t like your kind of food.  [TLC is a particular cat}.

This is the room where your daybed will stay.  It can be your Safe place.  All day long.  If you get tired, you can sleep right here; if you get scared, you can run and lie right here.  This big soft bed is right by my chair.  So we will be together.”  Mom smiled big at me.

Then she showed me my BIG nice, soft bed in the bedroom.  This one is right by Mom on her side of the bed. TLC likes to sleep on the other side.

Sometimes TLC sleeps at the end of Dad’s feet.  Just say’n.

Me!  I always sleep with Mom.

We walked through the house….here is another bed if you want to try this one out, or here is a bed in case you want this one.  I got you LOTS of beds so you can pick whatever bed you really like.” She explained.

But the scary THING!  The scariest thing is UPSTAIRS!  Mom showed me upstairs.  She had to carry me upstairs, and then she had to carry me downstairs, where I hid my head in Mom’s arms.

That was when I first got here to the HUGE pen I share with Mom, Dad, and TLC.  Now I run up and down the stairs like they were a flat floor.  I like to come upstairs and lie in the sunshine in the morning.   Ah…..bliss!

Then we went outside.

I didn’t even have to have a harness on!

Just out the door we went.  First Mom carried me ,then I walked right with her.

But—-

OUTSIDE WAS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BIG!!

I ran back to the door and stood there shaking.

“In?”  Mom asked.

“IN!!” I shivered and shook.

So In I went—-only going outside WITH MOM to do my duty, then running right back inside.  As fast as possible.

Mom had to tell me it was okay to do my duty outside, she says: “Go, Good Girl.  Picked up my leg {I still pee with one leg up}, and said—“It’s okay…Go, Good girl.”

I’m a fast learner.  That’s what Mom says.  😊

WHEW!

Learning the big pen took me a good two weeks, or more.

And in the meantime—-I had a vet visit.

No more puppies for me….ever!!

Boo Berry Betty Brown

My Wish for You — Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Sometimes time drags endlessly by

Sometimes it moves in a very swift whirl

Then, sometimes, when and if we are lucky, we are blessed with a precious moment to hold forever in our hearts.

May Your Dreams be Blessed each and every night and day!

From my world to your heart,

Linda

 

Whipping Gusts of Wind —- Monday, June 6, 2022

Not only filling your eyes, ears, nose, and HAIR

Full of dirt!

It has a tendency to whip your words away!

.Even on a clear day the dirt devils fling bits of this and that here and Up THERE!

In spite of all that…Linkin found a Heart Rock just for me! (and for her)

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

In the Mild Early Summer Morn— Sunday, June 6, 2021

A little Robin Red-Breast busily gathered bits of weeds and such

Then he/she swooped down and grabbed a big fat bug, not far from where I sat

Later in the warming sunshine he/she gathered nesting material from the riches I seemed to just be ‘throwing away’

What a fun experience I had…sharing the morning with this busy little bird(s)!

From my world to your heart,

Linda

In the Warmth and Glow of a Late Spring Day —Thursday, June 6, 2019

The quiet beauty of a farm  is not the glamor and glitz of a town, city, metropolis

Still, there is a bright glitter in the green growth of weeds and the

Quick flutters of wings and feathers.

To be able to actually see the enchantment

A human must be like a creeping shadow

Instead of blending into the raucous noise of a cities roar

Care must be taken to experience the unusual, instead of flinging oneself into the

Shimmering excitement of towns

The gold is lifted to our eyes on gentle breezes

As the shadows fall sharp upon the furrowed land.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

The Day Filled with Wonder—-Wednesday, June 6, 2018

There is always something to see

Something new to discover, just there…or over here…or right before our eyes

Some wonderful thing reflected back to us in the light

 

Color reflected on to our iris’; showing the world as new.

We are lucky, you and I, for having the gift of this amazing world we call earth.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

If Ever I Leave You—Monday, June 6, 2016

To take from William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree–” I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and a small cabin I build there of clay and wattles made; nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, and live alone in the bee-loud glade”.

Close-of-the-dayIf ever I leave You—You will find me here. Somewhere ‘out here’ where you can hear the dark descending upon the land.

Clouds-2The busy day full of humming bees, sky of blue, and puffy white clouds, the temperature hot and the air full of the fragrances of all growing things.

Dry-Rows(How we let ourselves know that the water didn’t make it to the end of the row.)

Storm-of-Kebler-PassStanding on the ditchbank Terry and I watched a huge lighting storm flashing over Kebler Pass between Crawford and Crested Butte.

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If ever I leave you…please stand still…listening… for I will be here.  On this farm where the land, the sky, and air speak to me.

From my world to your heart.

Linda

 

It’s Raining Here—Again—Wednesday, June 6, 2015

floodSure is good for the weeds and the flowers, not so good for my working in the weeds and flowers.

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It’s also hard to irrigate.

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I worked in the sunshine (really the shade of the sunshine) all day yesterday.

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The weeds I jerked out won’t get to rejoice in all this moisture.

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Oh, well…the rain is here today and gone by the weekend.

YellowYour friend,

Linda

 

 

June 6, 2013

Just for a little fun (and to answer some of your questions) I’ll post these few photos of the Corvette Stingray

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We’ve had the car for a long time (I never drive it–but I do ride in it)

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He used to drive it in the winter

wheeeeeeeeeee

Since it has a rag top and a hard top.

But the icy roads and blizzard conditions made him stop that nonsense and just use it in the summer time….with the top down.

He gets offers all the time to buy it…but, well, you know the answer to that question 🙂  It’s Terry’s baby.

Linda