All-day Tuesday the grey sky hung dark and threatening.
Splatters of snow and sleet–then melt — then repeat.
But, if you are Min-Min—you know how to stay warm and dry.
HUGE SMILE here when I found her in the project car!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
As the snow fell heavily on the farm
The Sandhill Cranes bunched together –trying to warm their soddened feathers.
I felt a tad sorry for them.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Today we are in the shift…from the longest night of the year, where darkness drags on and on
Where shadows grow long early in the day
and swirl heavily into the evening
But gradually, ever so slowly, the daylight hours will stretch
(Coyote visiting our yard 😦 )
And the night time minutes grow shorter and shorter
Sunlight will stretch a few seconds longer and longer each and every day
Until the seconds become minutes
Then the minutes will become an hour
At which time we reach Daylight Saving time, where we have a full hour added to our daily Sunlight
But even though the days grow longer,
For two full months, January and February
The days will grow colder and colder
Hopefully with moisture
Called snow.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
There is snow all around us… but only rain here.
A wee spell ago
I spied
Some delightful pheasants
Busily searching for food
And always running as fast as they can
away from me! 🙂
It seems to me that nature, and those creatures who live in it, are no different than us.
They hunger, they feel pain, they love.
I so enjoy being part of their lives and sharing them with you in photos.
From my world to your heart!
May you find and experience joy today!
Linda
It’s been miserable here for the last few days
Monday night was THE WORST. Threatening clouds all around us.
The incredibly hot, dry wind, turned into the incredibly cold nasty wind; wind so hard it slammed into us
The bully wind making it next to impossible to stand on the ditch banks, let alone set flapping dams into the ditches.
The sunlight, meager at best (as you can see —sun obscured by dark threatening clouds)
Then the cold came in…close to freezing Monday night and the threat of colder weather to come.
(The high country got snow…as in Ouray, Grand Mesa…those areas.)
What odd, strange, unusual weather for June.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
For one night, and one night only—
just before our really nice wet snowstorm arrived
Our grandson came.
He is growing so fast now. A man really, 18 this month.
Joy comes in so many different ways. All we need to do is look— with gladness.
From my world to your heart.
Linda
Last fall I was bitten by a Jumping Spider—here is where I blogged about it
Nasty creature.
Anyway, I gradually healed up. Life went on.
Then a new thing occurred…teeth (not just tooth pain) but random floating moving pain and bone pain involving my teeth.
Miserable.
I found it hard to concentrate. Then I found myself only doing what was necessary because of the pain.
I went to the dentist, talked with my medical doctor…had a new filling put in, took Advil, hot packs/cold packs; you name it.
Gradually my mouth felt like it was breaking apart tiny bit by tiny bit.
Finally, it has been decided the pain is a result— a sort of residue, of the ulceration and a weird-like tissue death, from the spider bite.
The whole thing rather caused me to think way too loudly —mainly at night when trying to sleep 🙂
BUT!
At least I know now.
At least I can rest and not have my thoughts gather and disappear down a rabbit hole.
I can go forward into my new normal
Accepting the new creation in my body
Where pain didn’t exist before
It isn’t anything that I can’t live with, now that I understand it
It can’t break me. It is just the new normal.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Mom, Dad, and I saw RAINBOWS!
Lots of Rainbows.
Sometimes Dad would say: “Look there is a Rainbow”!
Mom would get all excited, whip out her camera and snap.
When she would snap, I always tried to see what she was snapping AT!
RAINBOWS!
Not only Rainbows,
but we saw raindrops!
And there in the mountains….SNOW!
Lots of Snow.
Mom and I think all that is good, but more than anything I think
CHECKING OUT THE NEWS in the farmyard, EVEN better than Rainbows.
(Just say’n)
Beaglie Boomer Brown, or is it Boomer Beaglie Brown?
(From Pinterest)
Back on Tuesday night, last week, Boomer and I took a wee walk-about
The wind was bad, restless; like a nightmare
Then it started to snow
I was frozen; we didn’t go far
The next day showed us diamonds on the earth
Which truly didn’t start melting until Thursday
Then warming up enough by Saturday it was all gone. Leaving on wet spots where it used to be.
November has arrived; winter is officially here (no matter what the calendar says) 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Snow came in the night, starting out like rain/sleet/ then snow
Not masses of snowflakes but enough that one is surprised to look out the window on an October Day.
The wind chill is the worst.
The day before, in a crisp, sharp, gusting wind (no rain, no snow, just strong wind)
We tackled part of the woodpile,
Splitting a nice little stack amid the swirl of leaves and twigs
Which is keeping us warm, while the malevolence of the nasty wind stripped the rest of the leaves from all the trees.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
