Farm News

Tulips struggle to life

     Life on the high plains isn’t ever easy.  These tulips were lucky to have been covered by hay.  They were spared ravishment by rabbits or deer or raccoons or whatever gnawed off or uprooted a half dozen other “hills”.  If the cold dry winter winds don’t do you in, some four-legged predator will.

        Homeless seek refuge everywhere

     The unwanted are everywhere.  Here kochia and Russian thistle, dislodged by winter winds, seek shelter from the weather.  Drifting along, they land on the leeward side of buildings and  windbreaks, where they stay until someone takes charge of them.  Local authorities discourage the drifters from huddling around fire barrels to keep warm.  Tumbleweeds are highly flammable.

 Gangs terrorize the neighborhood

There used to be cedar tree here.   

     What was once a rabbit brush has been reduced to kindling.  Left untouched, grass that would have satisfied if hunger were the problem.

     Marauding gangs of four-legged criminals continue to roam the area unchecked, their intent strictly malicious.  Local authorities seem powerless at best, unwilling at worst, to deal with the problem.  What power do the miscreants have over our officials?  Will 9 News ever investigate?

    Asparagus awaits the signal to ‘shoot’

     The asparagus patch has been cleared of tumbleweeds (temporarily) and last year’s fronds, awaiting Nature’s signal to put up flavorable shoots.

     Rabbits find shrubs unpalatable

     Judging from the lack of damage, the local cottontail population must find the juniper bushes undelicious. The junipers will be lucky indeed if they prove to be as repellant to a much more malicious enemy—deer.

      World Population—7,000,000,000,001

     On Wednesday March 26, 2014 at 7:57 a.m. little Bronson Ott entered into this world.  He is indeed a fortunate child.  He is healthy, well-formed,  a normal human being. 

    Augmenting his good fortune is the reception he received upon arrival, two loving parents anxious to make him a good home, doting grandparents, aunts and uncles, members of an extended family all rooting for him, and dedicated sleuth and now protector, Bella.

     All children of the world should be so lucky.

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