Want to see what Seventy burning candles look like on a cake? 🙂
(Blade said the heat was very hot on his face. 🙂 )
The grandchildren insisted we have seventy fully lit candles for Grandpa. It took a lot of fast starting of candles and a VERY slow walk for Bladen to bring the cake into for Grandpa to blow all of them out.
Linky thought she better bring a spray bottle of water, because she was just SURE Grandpa couldn’t blow ALL THOSE OUT AT ONCE!!!
But he Did!
Tally grabbed Grandpa and looked him in the eye and said, (very seriously) “I knew you could do it, Grandpa.” The faith of a child.
We have finally gotten all the corn ground wet and are watering the alfalfa for the second time this year. Next we will start on the pinto bean ground.
Terry should start marking it out either today or tomorrow.
After the ground is totally soaked, we wait a week for it to dry down, then Terry will got in plant. This is called wet planting.
There are two kinds of planting…dry and wet. In dry planting you get the ground ready and plant the seed, then you water the seed up. We like the wet planting, since the ground is already wet the seed starts to sprout immediately. Weeds are easier to manage, because the planter ‘weeds’ as the seeds are planted. We are in for ease. 🙂
The word from the Ditch Company is the reservoirs are completely ice free and rising quickly. (Except for Taylor Park) The water level at Blue Mesa Reservoir has risen 16 feet in the last few weeks and is expected to fill within 5 feet of the reservoir top! WHOO HOO!!
Although, we are not not drought stricken this year, we will continue, as we always have, to practice good water management. But not having to really worry about the water is —well—nice!
Thanks for stopping by. It’s always good to have a visit with friends.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Interesting stuff… and GO BLADE 🙂
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I’m surprised the icing didn’t melt right off the cake and the smoke detectors go off when he blew the candle out 🙂 !!
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I’ve never seen that many candles on a cake but I hope Terry got his wish.
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Cor! it’s a wonder that you did not have to call the fire service
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that is a FLAMING cake! wow! impressed!
glad you are not in drought conditions this year. our ground is cracking and the yard is drying up already. we need rain, badly.
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I thought the sky was a little brighter the other night! 🙂
That’s awesome about the water.
Cheri
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Great to hear!!! Both that Terry managed to blow all the candles out at once (shows that he has good pulmonary function with great Forced Expiratory Volume) and that the water level is up and rising.
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Wet planting is interesting but wondering if the home gardener can do this since we have had so much rain lately ? Or does it apply only to large scale farm plantings ? Its been a very interesting spring weather wise and I admire your farming tenacity for planting despite the weather and water situations. Tell Terry Happy Birthday and what an awesome sight. Glad no one had to call the fire department. Blew them all out…..good lungs and probably never smoked a day in his life ! Grandkids had great idea !
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Wow—glad you didn’t burn the house down!!!!! Shows how much HOT AIR that man of yours has –since he could blow them ALL out… (You should have added at least one that wouldn’t blow out!!!!! ha) When we celebrated George’s 70th, I got two candles. One was a 7 and one was a 0…. ha ha
Great news about your water..
Hugs,
Betsy
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The smoke filled shot is PERFECT!
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Looks like you might’ve had to turn off the smoke alarm! It takes quite a lot of cake to show 70 candles, doesn’t it?
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I’m proud of Terry for blowing out all those candles at once. Betsy wouldn’t let me have that many candles — she’d be afraid the building would burn down! That’s great news about the water.
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Wow……..he had his own private barbecue grill in a cake pan!
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Ha! I’m so thrilled they insisted on all 70! He must have loved it 🙂
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Wow! That cake is a fire hazard! I can’t wait to see what 80 candles look like!
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I too have never seen that many candles on a cake!
Wet planting is something I didn’t know about either. Pretty cool!
-Lori
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Lovely to see you celebrating and making the most of the good times dear Linda… What a sunset! Glorious XXX
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Who’s job was it to turn the smoke detector off? ha!! What fun, those kids will remember that birthday for a long time.
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LOL! I wondered what all that smoke was around Delta! I just got caught up on the blog today after being gone. Please wish Terry a very happy belated birthday from one of his unseen friends “up the road”.
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We go for one candle to a decade nowadays. Seventy candles: that’s a big fire.
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My farmer is seventy too Linda, and keeps going. He would be lost without all the work to do.
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Hot stuff!! Well done Terry and your darling grandchildren too 🙂
Real glad you don’t have to worry about water as much this year.
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I can’t imagine getting all those candles lit!! FUN!
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Happy birthday to him! What a great photo of that cake with all those candles.
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How do you even get all those candles lit? My candles are so cheap that most of them would be melted before I got the others lit. Happy belated Birthday to your sweetie!!
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That is one flaming cake! Hope Terry had a great birthday! 🙂
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Wow! That was a hot birthday! And not having to worry so about water is definitely a great gift!
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Belated Happy Birthday to Terry!
And so glad to hear about your reservoir. That is great!
Have a wonderful Friday. ♥
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The guys on the space station reported seeing that cake.. 😉 Happy belated b-day ;-))
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That’s one bright cake!
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