This cute little baby
Has grown up so fast
Last Thursday night she
Left her childhood behind
And graduated from the 8th Grade.
On to high school, she goes!
Congratulations, Tally!
From our world to your heart,
Linda
We have Tally here! Tally and I hang out together and do FUN Tally and Boomer stuff!
All the time!
We also work.
We go with Dad and Mom and irrigate.
Mom and Dad change the water and Tally makes sure the water goes down the rows.
I look for NEWS!
I LOVE news.
Tally is here until the weekend. It’s her week with Dad, Mom and ME!
I LOVE having Tally here!
Boomer
We have the little kids here, well, really we have Tally; Blade comes off and on. Then this week-end Hank Puff and his Mom and Dad return and switch kids with us; we will then have Linkin.
Still I thought you would like seeing how my week has gone:
I really don’t irrigate, Fuzzy did, but not I—I am the gatherer of news!
Then the hard part—
Waiting!
Waiting for someone to come out and play or waiting to be let in the house to sleep, or waiting to go to work
Waiting.
Boomer the Beagle
“Bored, 2P?’ (the family nick-name for Tally)
“Yes”, draping herself all over the arm of Grandpa’s chair, then rolling around until she is up on his lap. “Could we go for a 4-wheeler ride”?
“How can you be bored; you’ve got 5 boxes of domino’s out and are building all sorts of fences, and corrals, and dog houses?”
“I’m tired of building, Grandpa. I’m also tired of cartoons, and the Ipad, and petting Boomer and the cats and well, just everything”.
“You just got back from a morning of play with your little friend Izzy; you should be tired”.
“But I’m not, Grandpa. I want to do something with you that is fun.”
“Fun? We play chase 2P, catch 2P, fling 2P in the air lots of time.”
Sigh! “I know.”
“So just what is it that will take away all this sudden on-set of boredom?”
Turning around on Grandpa’s lap, and taking Grandpa’s face in her hands, looking Grandpa very seriously in the eyes she answered: “I think the only thing that will work and will work really well is a 4-wheeler ride, Grandpa”.
With a huge smile and one of those looks to me, Grandpa, picked up the little 7-year old and replied…”I think you are on to something, Tally. Let’s all go for a ride, you, me, Grammy and Boomer.”
(an ant hill surrounded by flowers on cactus hill)
“YAY”! The little granddaughter said with a huge grin on her face and a twinkle in her eye!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Our Craig, Colorado kids all went home…without two of the grandchildren 🙂 Blade wanted to stay with Aunt Shannon (part-time) and with his cousin on his Dad’s side some/most of the time. Blade and Zack are very close cousins and friends so spending time with each other is very special to both of them. Blade will also spend time with us…at 13 you just have so much you want to do, with so little time to do it.
Tally is staying with us. I will call a little friend she liked to play with sometime today and arrange a play date, but mostly it will be Tally, Grandpa and I. We will got see Aunt Shannon and Jason and the dogs and cats, but that will be just to visit.
Linkin and her best friend will be spending the whole week at Craig, no brother or sister to interrupt their very serious best-friend-forever time. Then next weekend we will switch and Linkin will spend the week with us. (I’m sure Elly will be here and Linkin will be at her house off and on.)
On our way to get some guinea pig food (Blade’s pig is staying with us also 🙂 ) Grandpa and Tally wanted to play at one of the parks on the way home. There was a little girl already playing there, which added to the fun. (Who do you think had the most fun?
1 Tally ?
2. New Friend ?
3 Grandpa ?
If you guess Grandpa…YOU WIN!!! Just look at that smiles— they say it all.
I’m so far behind on commenting, but please know that I am reading them. I am also reading your blogs. I am also a tad stretched at the moment, but I hope to get into a routine soon.
Your friend,
Linda
Tallen was staying with us the other day and found
My favorite doll stored away in my closet
She also found Shannon’s favorite doll. Having a doll as big as you are is really sort of neat.
Tally played with them for a little while, but got side-tracked when she discovered Grandpa’s toy tractors.
Geeze, having the house tore up for new carpet is really fun…there are toys everywhere.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 