The rains have arrived. They threaten all day long, then around 8:00 in the evening they began.
We were lucky that it waited until we got home. Just as I drove into the shed the rain started falling in a serious manner. Terry didn’t believe me when I said it was raining (he beat me in) but as we walked out of the building he became a believer. 🙂
Today Terry has a meeting, which leaves just the dogs and I to change the water…I hope it isn’t raining at that point. I also dread the drive on a mud slick ditch bank, but I know it can be done.
Yes, I do!
Anyway, The Farmer’s Almanac has printed their predictions for the up and coming winter…I’m already ready for Spring. I guess I shouldn’t be so selfish, as I know some of my Dear Blog Friends are also ready for Spring—-they can only have Spring if we have Winter so I’ll slap on a Happy Face and ‘try’ to be okay with Winter.
Now for the Good part of Winter…if the predictions are true we will have snow, which means the reservoirs should recover some, which is a very good thing.
Your Grateful the pinto beans are harvested and sold and the hay is baled and stacked friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Perfect!
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‘unusually wet’ – oh, that gives me a ray of hope!!!
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When I see your photos, I go home…thanks!
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I’m in the bitterly cold and snow filled section 😦 Glad the news is good for you though.
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Hi Linda and Terry, Glad you are getting the rain too; ours started last evening but with tons of thunder and lightning. More is in the forecast for the rest of the week. It may delay our new roof though. I always check the old Farmer’s Almanac but haven’t yet to see what is due here on the front range/plains. Stay dry my friend.
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I do not like winter either although we don’t get the really cold weather, but I hope all those predictions for a wet winter turn out.
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I am hoping we get a decent amount of snow this year! I know, I’m crazy. 😉 Loved the ‘tour’ of the farm yesterday.
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Your photos of the rain clouds are awesome, and your sunset is beautiful. I’m glad the rains waited until you got the beans and hay in.
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So pleased that you got all your beans in before that rain came Linda.
I am interested to know about this business with the water – do you have to irrigate daily or something?
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Glad the rain held off for you all to finish up the Pinto Bean harvest and to get the hay baled…. Hope you do have LOTS of snow so that you’ll have LOTS of water next spring.
Hugs,
Betsy
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Dry and chilly!? UGH! Muddy roads are almost as bad as ice! Slimy! Yea, for your beans and hay. A little break then corn.
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I really enjoyed your tour yesterday. Hope you get enough snow to fill the reservoir but not so much that it makes it difficult to do the chores. We also are heading towards winter it seems that we were in a summer pocket last week but are definitely in autumn this…
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Glad you got everything in before the rains came…Cold, Wet and White for my part of New England doesn’t thrill me, though….
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Thanks for the update on the winter weather, I am not surprised. The midwest is due for a hard winter.
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Piercing cold, that would be normal for a Minnesota winter! Normal snow…I am not so sure what normal is anymore! But I hope you get your fair share since we share that same prediction:)
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YOU KNOW I HATE THAT MAP lol
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those skies look terrifying! I’m such a weather fraidy cat, as you know. Hey…what’s colder: “piercing” or “biting”?
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Humm, I don’t know…the biting part makes me think of stinging wind, the piercing part makes me think I can’t get enough clothes on to get warm either way being in lovely Italy would be ever so much better. 🙂
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Glad the beans are in etc…been messaging and talking to our (Boulder county) CO kids all day; they have been mandatorily evacuated from their home…in a safe hotel with their dogs, so..we have our fingers crossed that their w l home survives unscathed.
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