Terry started the corn harvest
The day was cold and cloudy, but not windy. He waited until noon to see if the promised rain/sheet/snow was going to come. Since it didn’t he began.
About the time he got half the truck loaded the diesel motor started getting HOT! Stopping quickly (we both hope the motor is okay)…and some long flustered and frustrating minutes he dug out the gasoline combine.
That machine hasn’t ran for years. About two hours later (including lunch) he got it going and was able to finish one load. We parked the truck and covered it for the night just as the wind picked up. (Terry is at the elevator right now waiting to dump the load–he says it will be a long wait — he thinks he will be back around lunch or 1:00 p.m. A four to five hour wait.)
Late in the evening as the wind blew and the rain pelted he was able to get the thermostat off hoping that is the problem, if not sometime this after noon he will work on the water pump…let us hope it is the thermostat and not the water pump or worse yet…Not the whole motor! Please send Magic thoughts for a easy and non-costly fix! What a start to the harvest.
Over night the wind blew, the rain turned to sleet/snow and we woke-up to ice everywhere.
The snow isn’t staying, which is good, although the wind is still bitter and nasty. The weather person says this will blow out of here today with the next 6 days really nice!
That would be great…if things could hang together maybe we would be done in 6-10 days.
Anyway, life goes on. Sometimes the days within are a little brain stretching but we always make it.
I must go now and go pick up a sick granddaughter and take her to the Doctor’s Office, an ear infection. Another request for healing for this little girl so she can go to school her ‘most favorite thing in the whole wide world to do–even better than playing with My Little Ponies’.
Your rather frazzled friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Stuck closed thermostat like that warped the head on my Toyota truck once because I didn’t catch it…sounds like you did.
How is Misty?
Did they ever figure out what went wrong?
I know a student who suddenly had an AVM burst. Might look that up.
d
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Dear frazzled friend..there is a saying ‘ it never rains unless it pours’…. I reckon you’ve just had your down pour…how can so many things go wrong all at the same time.
don, t let it get you down…..hope that your hand is better today..I did pray about it..now grandaughter, s ear..do hope it is not serious…lots of love
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Good thoughts coming your way! I feel very guilty though as I’m in Paonia now visiting my mother who is beginning the end stages of her 88 years on earth. The cancer has spread to the liver and pancreas. I was to leave for Phoenix today but the snow was too beautiful to leave! About 3 inches here in Paonia!! The roads are probably clear enough to drive to the GJ airport but this desert dweller was hesitant so I rescheduled my flight for tomorrow evening 🙂 My brother and I were in Delta yesterday visiting Mom at the hospital where she’s being treated for an infection. We had a nice Mexican dinner at CJ’s Diner (?) It was certainly cold and blustery just as you described. Hope you get your equipment up and running for the good weather ahead. In the meantime forgive me for loving this “winter treat”!! Take care my cyber-friend!! Teri
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i’m so sorry. after waiting and watching so long for the corn harvest to start, this is surely a let-down and a worry. i hope it is just the thermostat. hope your grandgirl gets to feeling better, too.
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My prayers for healing for all of you and that includes the machinery and operator’s expert knowledge. Be calm and take one second at a time. Blue skies coming your way.
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I hope Terry’s wait wasn’t as long as he thought it would be. I also hope that the diesel combine is fixed with a new thermostat. Hopefully you’ve already had enough tribulations with this harvest and the weather will cooperate until you get it finished.
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Ugh. Linda. Wish I hadn’t emailed earlier that I “hoped all was well”. Sending all sorts of good wishes!!!
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Magic thoughts, hugz, and Blessings!!
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Ahhh—how hard to have to ‘live’ by the weather –which we have no control over… People who don’t farm have no idea how hard it is at time, do they??? Bless yours and Terry’s heart… Hope the weather does cooperate for the next several days and hope the diesel engine can be fixed… I know you are anxious to finish up the corn harvest…
Bless you both.
Hugs,
Betsy
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I’ll be praying! I hope it is a quick, easy and cheap fix!
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Have Doctor look at your finger while you are there. Just sayin. sharon
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Good luck to you!! Will be thinking those magic thoughts (saying a prayer, too).
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Love the pic of the corn stalks
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Prayers for an inconsequential, monetarily small problem with the combine. I immediately thought of all the close-calls/losses with the crops in the LIttle House on the Prairie books. At a very young age I learned about the fragility of the harvest. Fingers crossed that all is up and running tomorrow and the weather blows only drying winds.
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I’m sorry…it’s so frustrating trying to get the harvesting done ahead of the weather, let alone a break down! I hope it’s a minor fix! How did the snow/sleet/ice affect your corn? Did it stay standing? Hope your Grand is better soon too!
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In the midst of all that, Linda, thanks for taking time to capture and post those incredible pictures. And thanks for hanging in there. (Your situation reminds me of a farmer/rancher I met in Durango after we moved there — he used to tell people he was a “professional gambler.”)
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Keeping my fingers crossed everyone and everything turns out well…
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Happy thoughts on the combine motor. Hope your Granddaughter gets to feeling better. Ear infections are ouchy! They have some of the corn cut. We are putting some of our cows in there next week. They will love it! With the wind we’ve had, a lot of corn is on the ground.
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Magical thoughts for ears, fingers, weather and motors heading your way. Take care.
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At least he had a backup! Hope your harvest is done or almost done by now. Magic thoughts for you, Terry and your granddaughter.
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It never rains but it pours.. you do have a lot of challenges, to face at the moment, dear friend. I was reading in another blog something about Mercury being in retrograde, bringing all these upsets… it ends on the 11 November. Hope all is well before then XXXX
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Prayers and Magic Thoughts, all around!
It never rains, it pours…
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Farming is never easy is it Linda. If it is not one thing it is another. Good luck with the rest of the harvest.
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Hi Miss Linda…oh my dear dear Farming Friend, I feel like I’m reading a novel, and just like in the novels, the suspense builds and you hold your breath and you hope hope hope that the harvest is gonna get in without a hitch and then…bam, bam, bam…stuff starts happening and the story gets more tense and you just keeping holding your breath and turning pages…and the weather turns bad just to keep the plot interesting and then a gasket blows somewhere and…well, you know, you’re living it! I am SO sorry all this stuff is happening…but I am gonna put my magic thinking into overdriver for over time! OK? p.s. Ear aches suck. I hope that little one is better today.
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Prayers sent I really ought to start with the oldest posts but on feedly I start with recent and work back. Hope she is feeling a little better. Gorgeous shots.
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I hope everyone is on the mend and harvest is coming along.
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