There! The first thing this morning hopping on our lawn was a ROBIN!!!
Starting: Thu, Mar 2, 2023, 6:10 PM MST
Ending: Fri, Mar 3, 2023, 6:40 AM MST
The Spring birds are arriving!
SO Exciting!
To find out what birds are migrating in your part of the world, go here https://birdcast.info/
Spring really is on its way
From My World to Your Heart!
Linda
I was in my box, just resting.
Well, kinda, sorta, maybe, not resting so much, but HIDING!
The mice had all gone to play all over the house…I took them everywhere.
One at a time.
One in the kitchen…grrrrrrrrrr kick, kick….bite
One in the bedroom…bat around, bat around
One upstairs, one here, one there, I think you understand.
Then I grabbed GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRiaff…he sounds like a bell. I growl at him.
I was just getting GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRiaff taken care of when I saw a STRANGER(!) in the midst of everyone!
I jumped straight up in the air.
Then I ran into box again.
It was still there.
Just sitting!
I know what this is…no one told me, but I know.
IT IS A RAT!!!!
RATTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
I jumped out of the box right onto RAT!
Then I proceeded to KILL RAT!
I really worked RAT over—he rattles, which is rather cool.
I took care of RAT for such a long time that I was worn out.
Giving RAT one last swat I left him to his own devices
and hopped onto the sofa where Dad likes to seat (sleep) Shhhhhhhhhhhh
Sigh. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
TLC Cai-Cai
Connie from FarSide started a cleaning a project this winter, which sparked a cleaning project for me
Connie was sorting, cleaning, and going through all the stuff she had collected over the years.
I decided that it was a good idea!
So Off I went to start cleaning the upstairs.
Hmmm…I thought to myself. Here is this whole tote of quilt squares I haven’t ever done anything with.
So —- to make a long story short…I didn’t get the upstairs cleaned, sorted or anything because I became stuck with finishing the quilt squares.
I know why I have never really quilted. It is a tad hard (for me, anyway).
So here is my latest. A baby quilt. All hand-quilted with soft shiny blanket-binding. I find I really like the satiny blanket binding.
Two more quilts to go. Then I will have the box of quilt squares cleaned, sorted, and finally made up.
TWO!
And it’s spring. So we will see how long it takes me to get these two quilts done. 🙂
As for cleaning and sorting the upstairs. I guess that project—- I will start AGAIN next winter. 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
After a long, long morning of deep dripping clouds
The wind pushed and shoved and tumbled the clouds and moisture away
Away, away to the east whereby the time the sun started setting
The utter hopelessness and weariness of winter was no more
Then the gentle sky and the soggy earth spoke of melting snow and the promise to come of
SPRING’s Brightness.
This morning the sun has foretold the end of WINTER!
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Not wanting to ‘do’ anything really. Terry and I headed up to the Ouray Hot spring Pool, in Ouray, Colorado.
When got there at 1:30 in the afternoon, but 2:30 it was snowing…by 3:30 we decided we had better take our snow covered heads and go get dry and head home.
I forgot to take a photo of the life guards in complete snow suit and ski googles, or the snow coming down so hard you couldn’t even see the pool…but I did get
the snow as we drove back home.
We drove through snow, until Montrose, then rain around Olathe, by the time we got home. Nothing.
Just clouds and the setting sun.
It was stunning!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
There are over half now, of little babies on the ground. At least 50 (fifty) visible calves on Friday, more on Saturday—around 60 on last count.
So many it’s hard to keep tabs on who has been counted and who hasn’t!
Our fields, hills, dales, and farm roads are full of cavorting new little ones.
It is now time for the herd to gather up and move down the hill from us. Farming starts tomorrow! Mr. Davis and his daughters and his wife will all arrive on horses and a horse trailer. The trailer is for the brand new little ones who can’t walk far.
Momma cows are very smart and will know exactly where their baby is. Once everyone arrives at the next pasture the momma cows will immediately find their calf and trot off with it. (One way is the Mom keep mooing and hollering the whole time, so the little one knows her voice and where to find her. The calf also answers, so the Mom is well aware of where her child is.)
Although, they won’t go very far, not even half-a-mile— brand new little ones must have time to develop strength in their legs to walk for great distances.
Calf season is quickly drawing to a close. What joy they bring me to brighten the long days of late winter.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Terry and I are finishing work on the other house…it’s been a process, but we are almost done.
Yesterday Terry had to crawl under the house to work on some stuff under there. Before he even could begin he had to dig out a tunnel. Together, we finally got a pathway over to the old duct work; he dug and I hauled. Gradually we made a tunnel big enough to get from here to there and everywhere so the work that needs to be done under there can be done.
Today we will finish hanging the sheetrock in the kitchen. Then we will continue work on the conversion of a unused room into a very nice usable room–a possible extra bedroom.
While working on all this I kept hearing a very unusual bird song…
Finally I saw the lone little bird calling to me—
It was a Towhee! I (personally) have never seen a Towhee. I don’t know if this one was blown off course or if we have them all the time. It sure was a friendly little feathered bird.
He/she would hop close to where I was walking, then fly a short distance away from me. I didn’t see another or even a small flock, just this one.
Sure made my work go fast…
Your friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 