The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Easter Sunday

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dayphoto

We’ve entered my FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR!!! Spring Farm work! That means, Dad, Mom and MYSELF are always, always, always out on the farm! YAY!

Anyway, Easter Sunday was the last day we had company. It was also the day we all headed to the Uncompahgre Plateau for the first spring picnic of the year!

First things first, Blade is out for track at his local Middle School in Craig, Colorado. Every morning he would run way up to the end of the first corn field (one mile) and then run back…he didn’t want to lose his leg and lung capacity.

So Hank and I ran with him. (Just between you and me…that’s HARD work!)

Then it was time to head out for Lee’s Reservoir.

We had a great time—I LOVED all the smells up there, just enjoyed every minute.

Jason’s Dad, Paul, was here and went with us. Paul and Tally are great friends. Tally is one of those people everyone really likes.

The newest dog niece came along also…meet Gypsy an American Bulldog. I think she is an American bulldog…I might be wrong, she is a bulldog; that’s for sure.

Tayler (Gypsy’s kid) and Tally took outstand care of her, which worked for me. I sure didn’t want to puppy sit.

It’s been really windy for days here, but yesterday and today NO WIND! Mom said it was nice to set water in still air. I thought it was nice to walk everywhere without getting dirt in my eyes!

Boomer

June 19, 2013

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Dayphoto

Since it has been so hot we drove up to Lee’s Reservoir for a morning of relaxation.

The dogs loved the swim and everyone loved the break.

Sometimes you just have to get away for a couple of hours. In this case we took three hours out of the day. When we got back the wind was blowing with gusts up to 30 m.p.h.

The weather people are saying we can expect the same again today. The wind should help in clearing out all the smoke which came in over-night from the fire in Utah.

Fire is such a sad part of summer.

Linda

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Fun and Entertainment

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Dayphoto

This is Boomer…I’m going to show you what Fuzzy and I do for fun and entertainment. It isn’t all work here on the farm. We do more than irrigate, sleeping as much as possible, and barking the mailman/FedEx/UPS guy down the road, and in Fuzzy case, barking at the birds!

Fuzzy LOVES this time of year because there are SO MANY BIRDS!!!!!

Sometimes…just sometimes, mind you we get to go on TRIPS!!!!

Just the other day was one of those SOMETIMES!!!

Dad loaded up me, Fuzzy, the three little kids that are our Mom and Dad’s grandchildren, and the little kid’s Dad into the pickup….Mom rode in the back with us dogs and kids. Then our sister, Shannon loaded up Rocky, Balou, Hank, and Houston in the back of her pickup, the kid’s Mom, our other sister, and we headed UP TO THE PLATEAU!!!

(I don’t know that truck behind our cousins…it was just somebody who wanted to get around us. Which he did right after the photo was taken.)

This is Mom’s favoritits place in the whole wide world—the Uncompahgre (Un-com-pa-gray with the accent on the pah) Plateau!

*Uncompahgre translates from the Ute Indian word; ‘rocks made red by water,” “Rocks that make red water,” or just plain “dirty water.”

*Though the place where this natural stream pollution occurs was originally one small mineral spring, the name was given to a whole tribe of Utes (against their will), a mountain, a river, and one town –which later repudiated it because hardly anybody could spell it, opting instead for Delta.

We were going to Lee’s Reservoir!

YIPPEE!

There was ever so much fun…stick chasing in the water (although, I DID NOT GO INTO THE WATER AS I DO NOT LIKE WATER that much). But tons and tons and tons of cool smells!!! That is Houston you see by Fuzzy in the water NOT ME…I was with Mom!

Fuzzy enjoyed his time in the water very much…he never got out until it was time to go home.

Mom had to ride with a wet dog lying on her lap sleeping in the sun! (She said she didn’t mind)

Then we got home and had to be checked all over for ticks…this is tick season.

Ticks are some nasty bug…ticks never move from wherever they land after their last meal…they just sit and wait until they get hungry ; they wait and wait until some warm blooded thing comes along and then they either hop on or drop down on the warm-blooded thing and start feasting.

Mom says ticks carry horrible diseases and are really creepy creatures.

Anyway, we got checked out, and then had a cool picnic lunch that our people shared with us. After we all got tired we went home and took long naps until it was time to IRRIGATE!!!