Terry finished rolling all the plowed fields. (Think of plowed fields the same as double-digging up your garden bed—double digging is deeper than using a rototiller), but then it must be rolled (or raked, if you are in a garden) to smooth out the ground again.
Then after rolling comes leveling (in this case putting a slight grade to the field so the water will run to waste ditch. Leveling is akin to taking a board and smoothing out your garden or the cement on a sidewalk.
As for me….well, I’ve been cleaning up all the winter trash (corn leaves) blown around all the buildings and into my yard
Spring works also includes…getting my yard and the farm yard ready for spring! 🙂
Ethel and Thomas Davis (recently here for a wee visit) have a marvelous website Called FourWindowPress, where delightful poems and other things are published.
Ethel wrote a wonderful poem about their visit to our farm. Terry said she captured the truth about why he/we farm—work and joy together!
You have a good day today…spring is in the air.
I saw my first Robin yesterday!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
That is a big heap of corn leaves. My pile of maple leaves was not that big.
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80 acres of leaves fly into the yard and make a huge mess.
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Ha! We got an onion tornado once, just south of Gilroy. It was funny that all these papery onion peels were falling from the sky where there were no onions or even garlic around. I do not know where they came from. It is not as if onions grow on top of the ground like corn does. There certainly were not enough to pile up like a snowdrift.
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When they harvest onions, they pull them and let them dry in the field. They when the onion pickers come in the dried skins fall off and just lay in the fields UNTIL the Wind Blows!
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Okay, well, I would prefer to just stick with the apricot blossom blizzards.
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Me too! Or Almonds, or anything that blooms and drops blossoms!! 🙂
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Almonds were pretty excellent too. So were prunes and cherries. However, it is all excellent. It is all about what we get where we are. When I lived in town, I loved the piles of maple leaves. In another neighborhood, I loved the oak leaves. Now, I sort of enjoy the redwood litter, even though it is a nuisance at times. Some of the Mexican fan palms in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles are to tall, that their fronds can land a block or so away, which is a surprise for those who do not have a palm in the yard.
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I’ll bet it is a surprise!!! 🙂
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Spring is in full bloom here as well…very welcome.
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The soft days of spring are so welcome!
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Spring is never a dull time on a farm, is it?
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No and now we have snow all around us, but thankfully not right on us.
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Thank you, Linda. Ethel
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Thank you, Ethel!
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I followed the link to your friend’s poem — what a lovely tribute she has written and certainly it is true about the two of you.
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It was very lovely!
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Spring is in the air but I hesitate to say anything more about it. The weather gods may be listening …
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I know it…winter came back to us over the weekend.
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Big job Linda! How large are the fields that Terry is working? 🙂
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We farm 80 acres, some of the fields are bigger than other (20 acres) to one that is only 2 acres 🙂
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Gosh and our property is only 10 acres! 🙂
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Ten acres is a lot when it comes to upkeep 🙂
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Congratulations on your 11 years of blogging. I’m a recent reader but I enjoy visiting your farm via your blog. Thank you very much. Best wishes
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Thank you, Shirley! It’s nice to have you along.
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