I had the internet for exactly ONE HOUR yesterday! Grrrr! At least I was able to post and let everyone know why I wasn’t visiting your blog or answering comments. This has been SO irritating. Of course, I kept checking off and on all day long until I got sick of doing so and just shut everything off. 😦
The towers are still not working correctly. The Skybeam individual told me there are 17 people on the same wave length (beam?) and every one is having the same issues as I am. He sounded rather ragged.
Right now I have service…at least I can (maybe) get my blog up and (maybe) get around to visit many of you. If not, please understand. I will be BACK!!! Just like MacArthur….snerk and chuckle.
We saw a sun dog yesterday…sun dogs occur anytime of the year, any place in the world, at any time. They announce that cool down (or much cooler weather) is about to occur.
I can just guess what and when it will happen….today or tomorrow because Terry is out cutting the alfalfa! We do NOT need a cool down for several days…a cool down in July (here in the high mountain desert) usually means rain is about to descend. Although I love a nice rain to cool down hot summer days…we just don’t need rained on alfalfa which is turning into hay! Please keep your fingers crossed that we don’t get rain on our soon to be hay!! PLEASE!!! Thank you!
I got the five acres of pinto beans weeded. I won’t be able to go out there anymore since the pinto beans are now shooting feelers. The feelers will reach and stretch until they meet each other causing the rows to grow shut. All weeding stops from that point on. There will be weeds, but at least I got it cleaned for this amount of time.
Once the rows grow shut the blooms will turn into little pods and the pods filled with beans. Gradually the beans will swell until they mature. Once they mature the water will be removed and the plant will dry up. After that we harvest. Probably sometime in late September.
I suppose I had better close this up rather quickly. I’m feeling lucky to get this much done before we lose connection!
Your friend on a farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
the internet outage would be so frustrating! good luck with the haying!
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Your pinto rows look BEAUTIFUL! What a weeder you are…I hope you’ll post pictures later of the little feelers joining up across the rows. I’ve never seen this. Prayers being said for NO RAIN as we speak. x
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Rain is not something we get in our high desert, either. But as soon as we cut our hay it rained. Twice. Now it is smoky with a fire that started as a result. Keeping my fingers crossed you get your hay in before the storm. Loved your sundog.
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We’re supposed to get that cooler weather Wednesday and Thursday.
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How frustrating for you. Don’t they know you have fans out here?
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Interesting post as per usual Linda 🙂
As for the internet, know how you feel, we lose internet for a few hours at least 100 days a year, and totally for perhaps 10 days during stormy season. BUT, you guys are NOT in a developing country – that’s our excuse!
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I’m glad you had enough of a collection to post this and let us know that you are well (except for internet problems). I like your sky pictures.
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The sun dogs are so pretty, but yes, we’ll hope the rain doesn’t come at the wrong time for the hay.
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Hi friend on the farm – sorry you are having internet problems.
You have alfalfa down – we have grass for hay down – so we are both on different sides of the Atlantic and both hoping for a few days of fine weather.
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Good luck with your technology. Sometimes it just needs to remind us that we have other things we should attend to – even if it is a nap!
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Sure hope you get your alfalfa put up and your internet issues straightened out! We are having a cool down too and the forecast is clear for the next few days so we are going to start cutting hay. Hopefully we both get our hay in without incident!
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Sun dogs are so pretty and a nice reminder that in 3 days the weather will change. At least that’s what an old hooterite told me.
I’m with you grrrrrr on the intermitten internet.
Cheri
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Good thing I don’t have much work to do of an evening after we pull in to our campsite because all my fingers are crossed for you. For no rain and for a fixed internet. We use some kind of a cell phone hotspot … it’s not cheap, but it is all we can use when we’re at the Oregon lake, because no wifi there and unless we’re staying in a park with good wifi we use it when we travel. (In Florida, we have the cable hookup.) Don’t know if something like that would work for you or not.
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I’d never heard of sun dogs until I started blogging. Thanks for sharing. Love those sunbeams in your header. Glad your internet is back–hope it stays!
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How frustrating for you Linda. Maybe you are just meant to take a break. It looks as if the land is keeping you pretty busy. I enjoyed seeing pinto beans growing – this is a new one for me.
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We are supposed to have 46 tomorrow AM, it was 51 this morning …and we had some rain today..not that we needed it. Hope they get your Internet straightened out soon..I hate it when “stuff” doesn’t work:(
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Wishing you lots of luck with so many different things going on!
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