Bopcha Blog

All was well at the farm. There were four trees across the loop through the woods. One was pretty good sized - maybe 24-30" in circumference. Usually they are a bit smaller than that.

With so many people in the world, do you think Santa may begin using Kay's Delk rather than reindeer to pull that heavy sleigh?



It warms to cockles of our Zoiboyz hearts to think that you all are staying warm and sipping delicious coffee at the farm house. Just think Dee and Bill - that means every trip down to the farm will seem like Christmas again! Tom, Melissa, and I will be having a Christmas eve dinner. Tory's Robert sent us some Omaha steaks (we are getting quite spoiled--Tory, Murray, and Nikole indulged us with the same last year). We will be grilling them I think, presuming dear sweet Tom can stay cozy over the coals. Temps will be close to zero according to the weather man with an 80% chance of a white Christmas. Snow flakes covering Tom's hair might be worth a picture or two. Melissa and I will be cozy inside, looking at our stack of presents, and sipping adult beverages of some sort. Christmas eve is SO much fun.



Merry Christmas to all.



Love Tom and KC

Dee and Bill did an early Christmas Dinner for Judi, me, Susan, Gill & Paige. It was a wonderful fun filled meal. We were kept warm by the heat from Tory's heater and drank lots of wonderful coffee from KC & Tom's gift.



While waiting for people to arrive we saw two deer in the orchard. One had a lot of dark coloring in his coat. So while driving home, I wondered if it was a deer crossed with an elk. Which, I think, would be a Delk. D as in dog and then elk. Right? Anyway, while coming to this brilliant conclusion, I was hoping to not hit any deer or said Delk.



Merry Christmas everyone. Hope your day is warm and filled with many memory making moments.



Love to you all. Kay

The Farm got more presents than I did this year!



KC and Tom bought it a Kuerig coffeemaker, Tory bought it a new space heater and an electric throw blanket, and my artist/Camp Easter Seal friend gave it a watercolor of a cutthroat trout.

Okay that is just freaky. A lot of polish genetics going on in that picture (besides the names). Went to the farm today and creek is up and house is intact. No sign of any animals other than lots of deer prints in the field. Even my little ratter dogs found nothing.

Wow you two did work. It also looks like you cleaned up the apples in the orchard.



Please let us know what you find out about that hole. It is a little frightening.



Walked the dogs to the creek and it is rolling right along. The bridge is okay but would not want to fall in the creek without a life jacket. Saw no animals but did see some pretty impressive deer tracks in the field.



My very expensive eye med seems to be working on the exzema. And the bug that put me down seems to have subsided. Pretty sure it wasn't the flu but have no idea what it was.

You know--it warms the cockles of my heart to see Dee and Bill working like dogs. They are excellent at digging cactus too. And they aren't the only ones either -- my entire family has a work ethic that just doesn't quit.



Badgers make holes like the one in your photo. Not sure they go after honey though. I always though it was bears that could brave the ire of angry honey bees. Interesting stuff in the woods.



Tom is safely back from NM with some blue ribbons. I go to AZ next weekend to try and get more of the same. The Ford Windstar now has just over 275,000 miles on it. When/if it goes over 300K I'm going to send Ford a note, complimenting them on building such wonderful cars.

Here are some random photos from the farm.

The loop through the woods had three small trees down.