snacks | Life on a Colorado Farm

The cows are here!

Mom and I are in cow heaven! Every day Dad, Mom, and I head out and count babies. Right now…the count this morning was forty five calves on the ground.

Some just born overnight, a couple being born, as we drove by, and several are days and even a week or so old.

Now I admit, the other thing I like about CALF season is SNACKS! Mom gets rather irritated with me about SNACKS, in calf season, but (golly-geez!), I can’t help myself they are SO good!

I have to head-out by myself, as Mom gets grossed out and won’t let me snack. (I must admit Fuzzy never liked these snacks. I don’t know why he didn’t, he would just turn his head and walk on by.)

The first day of figuring out the farm is now loaded with Milk Duds (calf poopy) and Beef Jerky (after birth) I ate so much I had a belly ache. Mom told me she didn’t feel one bit sorry for me. Well, so what, I felt sorry for me.

BUT NOT ENOUGH TO STOP!!!

Boomer

Many years ago I used to walk all the way down the lane to the bus stop, the family dogs with me, to wait for the kids to get off the bus and tell me about thier day at school.

Who would have thought that many years later I would get the same opportunity, only this time I would ride the four-wheeler down, with two dogs amd the littlest grandchild? We wait at the end of the lane, tossing pebbles in the irrigation ditch, looking for bugs, and finding pretty stones until the bus comes.

Then a fast trip down the little dirt road to an after school snack, fun for Grammy conversation, a little down-time until 5:00 p.m. Then its homework time and usually Dad is home to get the kids.

I like the fact that this history did repeat itself.

Linda

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