Your farm friend | Life on a Colorado Farm

What a silly thing to say…a long weekend! Terry and I are retired and we farm (we retired from our paying jobs, but kept the farm job 🙂 )

All that this means we we either have long weekends constantly or we never have a break…who knows.

Anyway…right after we got all the water set for the day, we loaded up in the McCormick van and headed up to Paonia Cherry Days to watch our second daughter dance. (I will post this in an up coming post)

We watched a coal shoveling contest, (vintage and classic cars, lots of friends, Visited many booths of yummy food, and looked at many things to purchase.

Bladen stood in line for over an hour to get a ride on the bungee jump. He said it was FUN!!!

A much braver soul than I….even if I were his age!

Home again, home again…it’s always nice to be home again. We got the water set as the sun was going down. Nice and tired after a break from the day to day.

Your farm friend,

Linda

I have a favorite cow. She isn’t really mine, she belongs to Mr. Davis and his daughter. Still she is spending her ‘laying-in-time’ with us here on the edge of California Mesa.

(The laying-in-time for a Queen, would be confined a month prior to the birth and so remain for some 40 days after her child was born.)

Here these pampered cows are given all the fodder they can eat, wonderful vista’s to gaze upon and sparkling fresh water to drink. They will not remain here for 40 days after birth, but they do get to have the whole month of February and 9 days into March.

But I digress…my favorite cow has horns, which is never good—ever. Beautiful eyes, is always dress-to-the-nines (my Momma’s words) and is a new addition to Mr. Davis’ herd.

Yesterday, when Terry and I did our late afternoon check through the cows

We came upon this elegant beauty and her new calf.

Nope, not black! But sporting an half-white tail, just like Mom has.

I’m not sure if the calf is male or female. Of course, for us it doesn’t matter. I was just thankful she had her calf here before the herd was moved. And I got to see it! 🙂

There really are lots of small joys in every day if you keep your mind open to them. This cow and her new calf is just one of those joys from yesterday.

Your farm friend.

Linda