We (Will Seem to) Pause for a Little Spell—Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Dayphoto

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

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday— Out and About with Mom and Mindy (sometimes)

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Dayphoto

Mom and I

and sometimes Mindy, took walks in the rain, in the wind, at night, and in the storm we had.

But this morning we took a walk in SUNSHINE!

Anyway, here are some of the things we saw

These tiny birds are back…YAY! Mom and I love to see them and watch them…they watch us, by freezing very still, not moving at all.

If Mom talks to them, they get very nervous but don’t move.

Last night, after the storm left, Mom and I went for a short walk to the old tree, which is no longer there, because the ditch company sprayed and killed it….and Mom saw a helicopter coming our way.

She took a picture (Mom always has her camera with her) just to see if the helicopter would show up. Only the lights on the helicopter showed up. Still kinda cool.

Our storms were mild compared to other places so the renter is back on the land this morning.

The sun setting through the storm last night was rather cool.

Mom and I checked the apricot blooms…yep, froze. There might be a few that make it, but nothing like there could have been.

The canal water came yesterday!

Mom and Dad and I all thought YAY!

Dad says today we make ditches!

Oh! I hear a big truck! I know that motor!

Gotta go!

See ya,

Boomer

I Pushed Through the Panic —- Thursday, March 28, 2019

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Dayphoto

I pushed through the panic and started the heavy lifting of the old railroad ties. Terry came over with the four-wheeler and helped. He on one end and I on the other.

We loaded the ties onto the four-wheeler and drove them over to the coral gardens, which I have decided to spruce up a wee bit also

Terry worked with me for a couple of hours; afterward leaving to go do some work at the Upper End.

I like the new look to the flowerbeds at the corral garden spot. The old boards were starting to rot so repurposing the boards with the railroad ties will help keep everything going strong there.

Here you can compare…the new beds with the railroad ties and the two older beds.

I hope to get the two older beds freshened today.

We lifted and removed the ties.

Then later as I hauled soil to the repurposed beds and replanted my plants I looked carefully at what was happening!.

Seeing my garden beds with new eyes, so to speak.

And I LOVED it!

I will get everything out this bed and plant it all to grass.

The grass will be so much nicer to deal with!

Since I can’t figure out what to do with the bed where I keep all the bird feeders, I decided to take Janice Blawat’s, Emily Summer’s and Sara’s advice.

I am going to plant a ground cover or herbs in the bed and hope they smother everything out!

There!

I am moving forward!

Thank you each and everyone for the excellent advice and concern. I will have to seriously look into a sprinkler system at some point. Then my work will be shrunk to a more manageable size. (I hope)

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

A Song of Storms and Wind—-Sunday, February, 17, 2019

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Dayphoto

Friday night a storm started blowing in

The moon once clear, but with a halo, became fuzzy with clouds

By morning we were in a series of storms

The clouds grey and vaporous, dark and wraithlike

The wind pushing them along in a haunting song of winter’s lullaby

The wind was so sharp and cold it could peel your skin

All around the storm’s outriders turned the world to grey and then white

The wind howled and the rain fell flat and stinging

But by evening the lashing storm had spent itself, moving onward to other parts of the land

The clouds turned to gold and the air filled with sunshine.

Although, we are cold today…the day is beautiful; singing a much different song then yesterday!

From my heart to your world,

Linda

I Love Watching Shadows—-Sunday, December 16, 2018

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Dayphoto

From my office window upstairs I can see the shadows as they change, develop, and disappear daily

They grow long, shrink short,

Compress together until many shadows become one

The sunlight moves upon the land making all the shadows

Ripple and move like silk

Until the land is deep into the dark

But the full sun also forms magic shadows

Shadows all brought to us by that exquisite sky

From my world to your heart,

Linda

That Bright Curtain of Sunlight—Thursday, May 3, 2018

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Dayphoto

This is an old story. Not ancient, but one of those stories which keeps repeating itself until the mind and body feels exhausted.

We are so cold here I actually have a fire in the wood stove again. What an oddity, but a fact.

We keep having amazingly nasty weather this spring. Wind…mighty wind, huge amounts of wind that sock you right in the face and blow around things even tightly fastened.

Then lots of cold gray clouds full of moisture, which never really drops on our part of the world. It rained in town one day, and just down the road a mile, but only got the ground wet here.

Wet works for it cleans up the air and refreshing the plants.

But for a second, on the morning of May 1,…before all the clouds amassing over the plateau become thicker and thicker — pushed along to cover the whole of the sky.

There is was…a miracle of golden morning light, shadows shafting across the rich green alfalfa field…and I was outside basking in that spill of light and shadows.

Lucky me!

From my heart to your world,

Linda

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—-Friday Update

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Dayphoto

We had a winter storm come in on Tuesday. What a long boring day that was….the cats and I slept most the day.

Then Wednesday we had SUNSHINE!

Beautiful SUNSHINE!

And Thursday!

And TODAY!

Early morning the birds still look like its cold.

The storm blew in a pair of Robin’s! Mom was ecstatic! I didn’t get it, they were just Robins. But Mom was happy so I was too!

I got in huge trouble because I brought in a fresh afterbirth. I had just brought it onto the lawn when Mom saw me. Grabbed the really yummy thing and hauled it to the burn barrel.

Bummer!

Mom, Dad, and I do a daily calf run. I Love Going on the Four-Wheeler! I just love it! I’m safe up there, from those old mean momma cows, and I can see and sniff to my heart’s content, without having to walk!

Mom and Dad are still cutting and hauling and stacking wood. Three loads a day. Although, they don’t go if the weather is snowing.

Just a minute…..

Scratch, scratch…I’ve got an itch!!!

OH!

MAILMAN!!!

GOTTA RUN!
BOOMER

Dancing in Shadows—-Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Dayphoto

We had sun for awhile yesterday! And the temperature rose enough to dry up some of the mud.

The heavy clouds cleared and the moon unfurled itself over the farm— lighting Boomer’s and my path with silent silver mysterious and wild moonbeams. Like the flutter of an angel’s wing.

Today the sun rose in an almost clear sky!

The late setting moon drifted fast toward the west making the moonlight pulse rather than flicker, in the soft yellow sunbeams, which fell all around the sun-starved earth. Giving the air, the sleeping trees and plants and the drying earth a glow even an angel would enjoy.

So off I am to work in the woodpile—there are logs which need splitting, kenneling to split and gather, plus a few other tasks I couldn’t do because of the mud. Terry is working on getting the snowmachines ready to take to mountains.

As for Boomer…he can look for news!