The smoke from the fires is still thick here. You can see it all around even close to you. I can not imagine what it would be like to be in the midst of the fire itself. This is bad enough.
First Terry opens the field
Then Misty cuts while Terry watches
Then on her own.
This is not an easy machine to drive since you don’t use a stirring wheel, but
levers!
One field down. One more to go. But first the corn has to be cultivated and the rows packed so the water can be set in it.
The smoke filled canyons
Watching the setting sun through the smoke.
Linda
Indian Scout Homesteads at Harts Basin; Valley Still Yields Artifacts (May 1958)
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Cough cough – I’ve been through enough fire seasons to relate! Right now – certainly not an issue here. Getting through the flooding – yes, smoke – no. Nice nice looking alfalfa though – the stuff here is so full of mustard that I don’t know how they can sell any of it.
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Misty is driving straighter these days. Smoke is gone today so far but the water is raging with some flooding occurring. I have water inside my back fence but think it will be okay. Peak is supposed to be this week sometime.
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Hi Linda – pop over to my blog to see the first hay cutting in the field behind us! Anne x
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I just wikied the alfalfa hay. We don’t have such here at all.
Does that machine -the Case- crimp the stem allowing it to dry quicker. Or is there another reason why you need to send it into the maw. You’re not thrashing it for seed are you.
It’s rather amusing though, we would consider breaking the stem of our hay sward a terrible crime for any machine. It would allow the rain in, you see.
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Busy life on the farm (o;
the smoke is not that bad here…you can see it…but not like that.
WIND…we do have.
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Hope they get it under control soon and that the smoke doesn’t get any worse there. ♥
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I cannot even imagine the smoke! I am glad that our hay bine is easier to run 😉
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Love the sunset header!
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A good looking hay crop there. And a good looking helper on the swather. Hope the weather holds so you can get it bailed before it gets blown away or rained on. I’ve done my share of hours in a hay field. We didn’t have a swather. Ours was a two person job. One tractor ran the mowing machine and the other did the rake. I got pretty good with a hay rake and had a tan to prove it.
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HAY! Those are some cool pics.. ;-))
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Smoke seems to be part of the season for us too. Sometimes it seems that the whole state is on fire.
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Beautiful hay! Wow, the smoke…
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Love your blog! I’ll come back when I have time to sit with a cup of tea and catch up on all the back posts. We live on a 58-acre tree farm in Oregon…
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Your crop looks good. Beaut photos.
That smoke is thick. It makes breathing hard when it’s like that doesn’t it. Poor folk in the midst of it.
Amazing photo of the smoky setting sun.
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