The day’s are shorting now…around 7:30 in the evening we head out for the last check of water for the day.
We also are monitoring the pinto beans. The field is turning yellow, which means the pintos are now ripe and ready to be pulled.
Probably next Friday Terry will pull the pinto’s so they can start drying.
We will need the days to stay hot and dry once they are pulled.
(see the nasty bull thistle seeds)
(The steps for pinto bean harvest is — pull the plants and leave them lay until nice and crispy, combine the plants, which is taking the beans out of the dried plants and putting them into the hopper then the truck to be delivered to the Beanery, have the beans sacked and the sold—DONE for the year)
He is baling the new cutting of hay as I write this. The first of second week of September will be the third cutting of the old hay field. Dry weather needs to prevail for at least a month now. 🙂
The moon was lovely last night.
I also saw a small rainbow from the storms playing around us.
My four o’clock photo of the Daily View features my Sun dial garden… rich and lush with 4 O’clocks. The Hummingbirds love this area!
A very contented friend, Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Those four-o-clocks are magnificent! I used to grow them back in the day. Kind of out of flower space for them now. All your photos are lovely. hope you get just the weather you need.
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Lovely post as always. I have been buying and eating a lot more pinto beans from the time I started reading your blog.
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Your sun dial garden is gorgeous. No wonder the hummingbirds like it so much with all those blossoms. Your sky photos are beautiful. I hope you get the drier weather you need.
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Hi Linda, That last photo is fabulous—one of your best…. BUT–all of them are good. Your flowers are beautiful and I love the big BLUE MOON.
Hope you have the right weather for awhile so that you all can get more of your work done…
God Bless.
Hugs,
Betsy
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just lovely! the skies, the crops. good luck with haying and ‘beaning’. 🙂
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So happy you are content! 🙂 Your 4 o’clock is very very pretty. The moon was stunning last night! Great pics as always.
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Your posts always remind me of happy memories. 🙂 I had forgotten that we used to grow beans. Also lentils and split peas (OK, we didn’t grow them *split*!!!)
And your four-o-clocks are gorgeous. I might have to add them to my garden plan, although I have very little full sun.
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The flowers in the garden are so colourful Linda.
What are pinto beans used for please? They are not something we have heard of over here.
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Missing my garden and the “life” it gave me! Yours is breathakingly beautiful.
To answer your question about another dog. No. With our mobile lifestyle it wasn’t always the best for Tubs. With boys off on their own I plan to be even more mobile. And of course my ever present allergies…..
With me off work to recover Daryl has alot of work to do all by his lonesome. Cut and wrap up 320 acres in SD starting this week. As soon as that is done head to WY and get both circles done there. He has been up to his ears in hay since shutting off the truck June 15. His “break” was taking care of me for 3 days. Other than all the rain WY got during second cutting he hasn’t complained!
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Okay, question. How to you “pull” bean plants? Is their a farm implement for doing that chore? Visually I’m getting your hubby walking down rows and rows pulling up the plants by hand. How does it really happen?
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4 o’clocks! My mother-in-law loved them so much and so do I…why did we never plant any? One of life’s mysteries lost to time past. Thanks for the picture and the memories.
I’m glad you explained the bean-drying process because until I got to that paragraph I was all set to ask in this comment! Thanks for that.
Beautiful around your place — and magic thoughts for dry weather as long as you need it.
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Contentment is wonderful! I can see why you feel that way!
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Fantastic photos, Linda. Love that last shot of the corn tassels! Hope the weather holds out for you!
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Pretty 4 o’clocks! AND of course a rainbow!! I hope the weather stays dry for you! 🙂
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Love the last photo, Linda! The 4 o’clocks, too. I have them also and they are almost becoming a weed as they reseed everywhere! Hope the rains stay away for you. Good luck on the beans and hay harvesting. Then you and Terry can take a deep sigh of relief!
Blessings!
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For some one who’s only eaten pinto beans it’s interesting to know the procedure for harvesting.
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Thanks for getting back to me on Bean Pulling. Very informative and interesting. Your Terry sounds like the best kind of farmer, knowing not to get in deep with investments in implements and having the know-how and parts to fix the ones he has. Hoping for great weather and lots of bounty for you this harvest time.
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Great sky shots, and your Four-o-clocks would draw me in like the hummers, too. Tassels! Everything is looking good.
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I’ve noticed the shortening days, too…Angel walks with Grandad after dinner in the evenings, and takes her little lantern along to light the road now…it’s slipping away, isn’t it?
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Beautiful! I love learning about farming in your area. Very different from central Illinois.
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