Hummmm
There is something up there
Maybe…
I can
“NO!” Mom yelled. “YOU STOP THAT, TLC!!!!”
(Dang it!)
TLC
It’s 104-105* here with a real feel of 111-112*
It’s so hot the trees are protesting by losing their leaves
Mom says it’s hard to keep things wet.
Dad agrees with her.
Black and sun make a doggie pant
The heat makes a kitty with two coats a tad tired.
HOT!! Is the word for the week!
Boo Berry and TLC
It is HOT! Mom! HOT!
I NEED IN! MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
Hot isn’t too bad…I can do hot! I just hang in the shade.
What I can’t do is the wind!!!
Hot and WIND! I need in, also!
(We need rain…to settle the dust and to cool us down. It can rain anytime now, but come next week—no, rain—we will be cutting the alfalfa for the second time this year)
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Hello. My name is Boo Berry Betty BROWN!

Mom says I get to tell MY story:
I have been here since June 14, 2022
It took me a long-time to understand what I am supposed to do.
My life before was babies. I was bred by my first breeder when I was 9 months old.
Then there were puppies.
Then a little break where I really missed my babies. BUT—
The boy dog took care of me missing my puppies and gave me more.
This went on for twice a year for two years.
Then—-I went to live with another breeder. A really nice man.
BUT—the story was the same.
Boy dog.
Puppies.
Boy dog
Puppies.
For a year and ½.
I lost my last two litters—–
My really nice man breeder asked my MOM!!!
YAY! MOM!!!
If she would like to take me home; he was retiring me.
YAY!
Now all that puppy stuff is over.
I have a new purpose in life:
Mom says I am no longer a kennel dog-I am a FARM DOG!
YAY ME!
Boo Berry Betty (my registered name) BROWN— My legal name!
But Mom and everyone just calls me Boo Berry!
Boo Berry
We are best of friends
We like to do ‘stuff’ together.
I like to play—run and scare Boo
After TLC jumps on me we sorta run around and chase each other
I never see TLC coming
He is very good at scaring me
I’m really good at chasing TLC 🙂

I can run faster than Boo Berry 🙂
And Boo Berry is very focused on Mom —just say’n
Still, we do have lots of fun together.
Best Friends FOREVER!
TLC and Boo Berry
(Backing up the water so the headgate will fill)
Mom and Dad just thought (HOPED) that last week’s big wind was the last big wind!
(Scary walking across that tiny board—Mom won’t even try. I don’t get out of my basket)
Nope!
Nadda!
Not at ALL!
(That is the trash dug out of the canal so the water could start)
We (Mom, Dad, Me (sometimes) worked all day in a big, big wind Tuesday and all day Wednesday.
70 m.p.h. gusts of wind getting the water started on the farm.
(We (Terry) must check the headgate several times a day to keep the trash out)
This is a hard, hard time, not only the wind but all the winter trash that comes down the water, plugging up the headgate. That makes Dad have to go check the headgate off and on. As I already said. 🙂 Boo Berry
Black Beauty, and my human sister, Shannon helped.
Once the water got to the horse pasture, Shannon, Kya, and Black Beauty took over setting the water in the horse pasture; Mom and Dad finished up on the new corn field.
It is so cold here we have been in a freeze warning which will last until Sunday.
Mom grew up in a huge fruit orchard—so this frozen stuff always makes her glad our livelihood is not based on fruit. This time of year is dangerous for fruit growers.
Okay, here is the deal: the WATER IS ON the FARM!!! (of which I get to go and help with) At least two (or more) times a day.
Mom says I am a very good irrigator! I don’t jump in the water like Kya and stop the tubes,
I just hang right by Mom like Black Beauty does Shannon.
TLC stays home all stretched out by the fire! Hummmmm.
(Who is stretched out by the fire? I am guarding the farmyard. TLC)
Boo Berry