Well, let’s see….first off Boomer and I helped Mom clean the chicken house. Boomer really doesn’t help; he just bounces around in the house while I am looking for mice. If I see mice, I grab them up and snap them. Mom says I’m a very good mouser.
(Although, I don’t see as well anymore, but don’t tell Mom, I don’t want her to not let me come in to the hen house with her and hunt mice. I talked to Boomer about my ‘little problem’ and he said he would watch me and try to do what I do.)
Anyway, there was only one mouse; Mom said the two snakes that had been living in the chicken house have done a good job. She dreads this winter when the mice will run all over the place again.
Mom washed out and cleaned all of the live traps because they now have to take the place of the hibernating snakes.
Then we got on the four-wheeler and headed up to where Dad is re-building fence….remember that huge fire we had last spring? Actually two huge fires? Well, the main fence that runs along the west of the place still hasn’t been fixed. Long story.
The damaged fences on the top of our place Dad has decided we better remove. He says we won’t have cows anymore so he is taking down the fences that have huge fire damaged wire. The range cows won’t have to be fenced out of the fields because they come in the winter and run the whole place anyway.
Lots of work, but necessary, you can’t have a cow or calf walk on a burned and down fence, get tangled in the barbed-wire and go down, get cut up, and hurt.
No, sir!
So we are all helping Dad.
I sit by the four-wheeler lots, unless Mom moves somewhere then I go with her. Boomer runs around, gets the news then comes back and tells me what’s happening out there.
We work until sunset.
The corn is drying down well.
Before supper Shannon comes over and we take a walk with all of her dogs. We like walking with ‘the pack’.
Hank even comes with us!
OH! YES! The old tree that was burn last year by our second huge fire the next day…IT IS COMING BACK! Mom was so happy she petted that tree!
Lots of our farm neighbors have told us how they miss that tree…well maybe it will be back stronger than ever.
Mom said we will just have to wait and see!
(That’s the fixed fence the ditch company burned and have now RE-BUILT!)
Fuzzy
The moon is starting to morph into a different look, not as full, coming up later in the evening and much later in the day.
It’s still really beautiful. The early dawn gave the moon a slight pink shade as it slid under the rim of the Uncompahgre Plateau. (Un-come-pah-gray—-accent on the pah.)
Life on a Colorado Farm 