We are soaked! Through and through.
Over night the rains leave and we wake up to chilly cool morning…nothing like August, nothing.
By 9 or 10 in the morning the humidity has built up it hard to even breathe, let alone work in it. Humidity like this is very unusual for our part of the world.
Around three or so in the afternoon it starts raining.
And raining.
And raining way into the night.
It is raining so much the water can’t dry up or sub away.
We don’t have any hay down, nor are we trying to harvest wheat, barley or rye, or the sweet corn. Some of the grains are harvested and some aren’t. Farming sure is a gamble with the weather and the prices.
The sweet corn guys have four-wheel drive on all their vehicles and keep on keeping on. Sweet corn has a very short window so if the vehicles get stuck they pull them out. The workers keep on working right in the rain. The only time they pull out is when a field is done or we have too much lightening.
Well, onto another day of rain. Wish I could send those of you who need some, some.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Wish it would get better for you! I am not even going to complain about our weather, because yours is about ten times worse. Take care!
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Boy are you EVER getting the rain. That’s amazing. I can’t imagine that level in the summer. But then, we live where 12 inches a YEAR is a big deal. Still, that looks like a winter rain for our area. And it’s still hot? Humidity. YUCK!
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I also wish you could transport it to those of us who need it!
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Who is in charge of the weather this year? It seems so locally weird. Super hot here. Freezing there. Wild winds and tornadoes and your rain, rain, rain when other places are parched. The only thing worse would be to put the U.S. government in charge.
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Yeah, that would be us. We need it. Why is it always so unfairly distributed? 🙂
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Good grief! If the field corn doesn’t get knocked over, it’ll be 20 feet high.
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Hi Linda
Are you sure that during a recent night – when all of the inhabitants of
Colorado were fast asleep, some mysterious “being”, moved your state into the
tropics????? Next thing you’ll have coconut trees sprouting up in the corn fields!
I just hope that the river systems have retainer catchment areas for future irrigation
when and if, the mysterious “being” decides to put Colorado in the middle of the Sahara!
Here, Brisbane, still supposedly in winter, we have had just two days of the Antartic winds from the
south. Today is a typical spring day – fine, cloudless and warm!
Makes you wonder why the politicans of the World descended on Copenhagen – must have been
for the shopping and great food??????
Check your feet, they may be developing webbing!!!!
Cheers
Colin (HB)
Comrade!
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I want some! Hope it dries up for you soon. blessings,Kathleen
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Oh my! I’ll trade you. We need the rain to cool us down and it sounds like you could use some of our sun. Try to stay dry. If you get webbing between your toes you know you’ve had too much rain.
BTW, I soaked some of your wonderful beans last Friday night. Sort of mixed up what I had left. On Saturday I turned them into some of the best refried beans I’ve ever had. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
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This is the first afternoon it hasn’t rained. We’re the same as you but not as wet. It’s time!
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We have had a couple of nice days with out humidity…a nice change for us, but misery that you are having it…it kinda zaps the energy. I do hope you are able to get crops in.
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Dang you must be sick of it by now. Hope you got boots and an umbrella.
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Holy cow! You weren’t kidding :-0.
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Gosh—I’m sorry you all have had so much rain…. AND –even on my birthday!!!!! Oh —the nerve of that weather!!!!! ha ha
Hugs,
Betsy
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