The heat here has been exhausting. Part of the reason we are are so hot is the fact we have corn fields all around us…all but the five acres of pinto beans right in front of the house.
Since the humidity is high for us, it seems hotter than normal. I know nothing like those of you who live where there is high humidity all the time. (July and part of August is the monsoon time for the high mountain deserts of the Rocky Mountain mountain range).
Anyway, since the humidity is high, with afternoon thunder and lightening storms complete with rain and living in a much higher humid environment A CORN FIELD we are ‘feeling the heat’!
The corn fields effectively block any slight breezes or tiny winds that flow over the top of the Uncompahgre (Un-come-pah-gray–accent on the `pah) Plateau and onto the surrounding mesa’s including ours–California Mesa.
Corn fields by nature ARE hot and humid! Therefore, we are like tall green corn plants maturing in the July sun. Even the swamp cooler doesn’t help; it produces even more humidity.
Yesterday was a ‘sore trial’ as my beloved maternal Grandmother used to say! Being a child I never really understood that saying…but as a Grandmother myself, having lived many days and then some; I do.
(Anymore my Grandmother’s words seem to sing to me in the breezes, to ride with me over the dirt roads as I help change water, or we rest on the patio in the evening. I hear her spirit moving through my own words and in encounters of weeds and plants in the gardens, which we both love.)
The little grandchildren arrive off and on through the days, staying a short while then getting on their bikes to peddle home creating their own breezes as the fly through the fields between houses. I’m sure they don’t understand the term ‘sore trial’. 🙂
Still it is only the humidity that is hard to manage. Everything else is going nicely.
Last week Terry’s brother ‘dropped by’ on his way back to his home in Gilbert, Arizona. Terry enjoyed their couple of hours visit — after a quick ride in the corvette, Roger was back on the road. He had miles and miles to go from here to Utah, then New Mexico, and on into Arizona.
All the hay is in and stacked and some has already been sold. Terry has started water on the very dry alfalfa field as we begin again preparing for the third cutting.
Today we rest…no hard jobs. Just those things that must be done.
Your friend on a farm in Western Colorado,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Beautiful post! I loved how you spoke of your grandmother…and the corn…and the kids on their bikes. Summer, summed up in just a few evocative words!
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glad the hay is in again! we are high and dry here and need rain. haven’t cut the yard in two weeks as nothing’s growing but a few sprouting weeds. ah, well… ’tis summer.
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I don’t think there is anything worse than a high-temperature, high-humidity day with no breeze. I hope you get some relief soon.
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Thank you all and have a blessed Sunday. ♥
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We are sending cooling (and drying) thoughts your way. That was a great post. I always feel I am on a farm in Colorado when I read them
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Evaporative coolers don’t seem to do well in humid areas. WE have cooled down and are enjoying 80 degrees with low humidity. Maybe some thunderstorms this afternoon…..always a fire danger here. Everything is parched here. Wish we could grow corn!!! I hear my mother’s words many times now as I grow older. Bet you can almost hear the corn grow and tassels sighing in the breeze
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have driven through ur area a lot going over an up through dissapointmemt valley to wards norwood etc etc…simply love the dove creek area also, have flown over ur area in my ultralight trike i have also, i live in a kewler region over by wolf creek. stay kewl yeah been hot as of late jest waitin fer dat next storm here 🙂 Q
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I wish I could ship you some rain from Maine where it is now pouring!
Hope the heat wave will move away, Linda.
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Sweet Corvette! I bet THAT will make a nice breeze through the hair!
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Oh, I know that ‘sore trial’ weather… Take it easy, hope you had a peaceful Sunday.
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Would love to take a road trip in a convertible! How cool! Literally!
Gonna start warming up here starting Monday! Heat advisory! Yikes.
Preg testing heifers tomorrow. At 6:30am. So not looking forward to getting up at 3:45am! At least it will be cooler, I mean not as warm! Ha!
Hope you had a lovely day.
Cheri
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A brother dropping by was a nice suprise!
Top down time! I am a thinking you guys need to take some evening drives in that super cool car!!! It sounds like -you may be getting some rain/thunderstorms Mon thru Wed. Maybe that means no watering! Hope so! 🙂 Stay cool!
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Good to hear you are done with the alfalfa. Can you hear that corn growing since it has you surrounded? I hope it cools off for you soon, we barely had 70 F today and it is a chilly 63 now headed for 52…unseasonably cool for July:)
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Oh so hot! I always think of Colorado as being dry — as it usually is in Boulder County when we visit the kids (I always feel the Oregon moisture whishing out of my body). But I understand why it is humid at your house — your post did a great job of explaining that.
It’s dry in Alaska — even when it rains. Oddly. We are in Deadhorse (basically the end of the world) and surprisingly found we have an Internet connection. So I’m taking advantage by payig a quick visit to my favorite bloggy friends … at least until I get too sleepy to go any further!). Will catch up with yor past psts when we get back to civilization. Thanks for so faithfully visiting even thouhh I haven’t been able to visit you much lately.
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It must be hard to keep working in that humid weather. I never realised that corn fields and humidity go hand in hand.
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I can stand anything but high humidity Linda – then I visibly wilt.
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Sundays … love them! Being surrounded by corn fields can feel (I imagine, anyway) like being dropped in a tropical rain forest …. without the rain!
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