The storm has left us, moving on passed the Rocky Mountains and into the interior of the map. We woke to a very cold morning! 24* and heavy frost lying everywhere.
The onions will still be able to be harvested; the farmers will just have to wait until they warm up and dry out. If the beans haven’t been pulled they are now cow feed.
The alfalfa is done for the year, no more hay to be made.
It’s still snowing in the mountains, but that will leave later on today.
All the songbirds are gone but the Canadian Geese are back. Lose one blessing gain another.
We are continuing to wait for the moisture content to drop. We do not store our gain in the butler granaries anymore. The Elevator takes everything we have as soon as we get it off the fields. It win-win for both of us! Happy Fall!
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Sorry to hear about your crop, Linda. Must be heartbreaking, all this work and now it’s ruined. A farmer’s life certainly isn’t an easy one. Keep the spirits up, next year will be a bumper crop. Cheers, Bill
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That is just dang cold.
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Hope you didn’t loose crops over this. We are going to drive up to Rocky Mountain National Park tomorrow if all goes well. Hope the Elk are still bulging.
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I can sure empathize with you! I grew up on a farm in Iowa and now the past 26 years on a cotton farm in Texas. The weather can be our biggest gamble of all, huh? We are too dry here, but need the dryness for the cotton to open up right now.
I have been seeing and hearing some geese coming over also. Am awaiting the juncos and then I will know it is winter up north. I’m in northern TX, so get ice, snow and cold winds here, too, they just don’t last long.
Take care…..
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I liked your lose one blessing gain another statement. So much in life is like that.
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The photos are very beautiful, I’m glad your storm has passed. That is too bad about the farmers losing some crops but it is always a risk this time of the year.
We finally got some rain and more to come this weekend, it’s our first in way over a month. The forecast says snow in the higher elevations so winter will be here very soon.
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Fall is here!! Love it!!!
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Winter sure comes on fast (or rather fall for you!!). But you sound prepared and know how to deal with it 🙂
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So what’s next? Whats the first thing you do in the spring? I am just facinated by your farm.
24 degrees!!! EEEEeekkk!!! It 90 here right now, and its 7 am
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Gee, and I thought it was cold here when the temp goes into the 40’s. I’m sorry to hear about your crop loss, too. But, I have to admit that I don’t understand about the grain and grainery storage. But, I figure if I keep reading your blog I will eventually learn lots of stuff about farm life that I don’t know. Beautiful photos.
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Snow already in the mountains, it looks like you are going to skip autumn ! I hope we will still have a few weeks before the first frost, but hearing about your lost crops makes me hurry to the garden to harvest the last beans and pumpkins. Farmers here in Belgium are having trouble harvesting potatoes because of the drought we have this year. It’s not easy to live from the land, but it gives a lot back too…
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the seasons are marching on here in the east, too. first snow has arrived on the mountains as I look to the west. good luck with your crops.
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Wow, that’s COLDDDD! I just don’t miss those cold Colorado nights. Right about now I’m loving the cool 60’s here in Maryland! Happy fall to you, too, Linda!
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24 is mighty cold. I am just not prepared for that kind of cold yet. I guess its a good thing that winter is coming on slow here. Have a good rest of the weekend and stay warm!
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Boy that sky and those beautiful photos sure tell the story. It looks COLD. You have been saying it was coming early. People who know the land and work it are better at knowing what’s coming than the weatherman. My money’s on you. I swear I could smell the air!
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You live such a different life to us and it is so interesting being part of your world.
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I don’t like it that cold. We’re creeping down the thermometer. Nothing drastic, just a gradual drop and we’ve got real snow not just flurries in the forecast for next week. I love Fall but don’t like the jump into winter.
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Those are great pictures, I am so glad that we haven’t had a hard frost yet, even though I know it is on its way! SNOW oh no, I don’t want to even hear that word!
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I missed so much while I was away from blog land. You have posted so many beautiful photos too. I am so sorry about your crop. I have always believed a farmers work is never done, and I have the greatest respect for you and Terry.
Love and hugs.
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Hi Linda, No fourth cutting of Alfalfa..that is a bummer. But you always know that nothing is ever certain in Farming, sad but true. It is getting really cold there..here too..not much fun:)
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Were there alot of farmers that did not have their beans pulled yet?
Warm thoughts.
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It’s almost surreal, watching time go by. Lovely post, as usual.
~Faith
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Hi Linda
Well life on the land was never meant to be easy- but what is so good about it, is that you appear, not always with success, to have some form of control. You can work your “butt” off and have great results, then the next season you have a failure, but the main thing is you endeavour to control the elements/challenges and that is the challenge of the “country folk” as opposed to those who live in cities. Thus your blog brings to reality what the city folk have very little, if any, comprenhension of what life is all about in Colorado, anywhere else else in rural USA , or anywhere in rural Australia. For that reason, you are doing a great job. I, just reading your blog, makes me wish I was 50 years younger and back on the land – my God, they were the good days – as a 8 year old at a place callled Boomi, on the Qld / NSW border, I rode a horse to school – 15 miles ( in those days by road) but shorter by far through paddocks. You left for school, got to school, unsaddled horse, made sure horse was OK ( God help if you didn’t), then after school back home and collected the milking cows in with calves for the night. Sometimes I wonder how the likes of me, and many other country kids did it! Today, just to cross a road in the city, kids going to school have “lollypop” people with flags up! Funny when you think of it, 50 years ago, we could see a car, yet these days kids can’t!
Keep up the great blog, Linda, you are giving a great message.
Hope you don’t freeze this winter – here in Australia I suspect we will cook to death!
Cheers
Colin
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Yikes! Beautiful photos though. As always.
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You should do a book of photos!
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Linda – thanks for coming by to visit. Your place looks awfully pretty with all those fall colors. Hate it that ya’ll got an early freeze. We sure can’t count on the weatherman to tell us what to do and when to do it, can we? Farming isn’t easy. You always look forward with hope to next year’s crop! But God always provides. I’ll be back to catch up on my reading! Have blessed day!
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