Yesterday afternoon the clouds started to skim across the sky stretching and cooling down everything under them.
Gradually they thickened and thickened, long frontal cirrostratus(is that the correct name for snow producing clouds?) clouds giving Terry and I the feeling that snow was about to happen. Although, the weather people were saying not.
This morning we woke to clear skies and the ever present cold 17*. But a storm is predicted to be in here for the weekend.
Today we are bright and sunny! Still I can see those same frontal cirrostratus clouds being pushed toward us over the Uncompahgre Plateau. (Un-come-pah-gray—a Ute Indian word meaning: (take your pick; rocks made red by water, rocks that make water red, or just plain dirty water. 🙂 ) A winter storm is predicted to arrive here Friday night bringing with it snow for Saturday, Sunday and Monday. After that our daytime highs will shift down a notch from the mid 40’s to the mid 30’s. The slide into the long, dark days of winter has begun. And it’s early! Those of you getting slammed with snow are very aware of that —-winter has arrived; albeit several weeks early.
The corn is still checking out dry on the top end of the field and very dry in the middle, but the bottom end is W.E.T.! 17%. We continue to wait. If this snow goes around us and isn’t too wet (right here) possibly the ends of the fields will dry down enough we can start on Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday…hummm, next week sometime. 🙂
I thank each one of you for your continued concern and encouraging words and magic thoughts that soon, very soon, the corn dries down enough we can get this years harvest in.
Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Can you harvest “part” of the fields–the dry part? Won’t snow add moisture back to the corn?
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sure hope you can get that crop in before the dang snows come heavy!
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I know a snowstorm is the last thing you need right now. Hopefully the weather people will be wrong and the storm will go around you.
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Who’d be a farmer eh, with snow forecast and harvest still to get in. Do hope the snow goes round you, the corn gets dry enough and you manage to get it all in before you are snowed up.
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:::Dry-Corn-DRY::: :::Dry::: :::Dry-Corn-Dry::: :::Dry::: :::DRY:::
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I had the same question as Carla. It’s clear why it takes years to learn farming.
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Goodness- the corn sure is taking its own sweet time, isn’t it? Hope you get it in soon!
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Oh dear, hope that the storm system won’t dump much snow for you. We have started the cotton harvest here on the home place today….hurray! We are forecasted to get thunderstorms tomorrow night and Saturday. Guess it is an edge of what you are getting. They’ll be able to finish here if all goes well, but still have 3 more farms of cotton to go. 😦 Just have 65 acres on this place. So, here’s hoping we both can stay dry for awhile. Beautiful pictures, as always!!!
Blessings!
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Snowstorm!? GAH! This is NOT what you need. Even though I bet it’ll look really pretty….
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We had a light dusting of snow this morning. Kinda pretty… -17? Yikes! That right there will freeze your fanny! Wow!
Blowing the moisture outta your corn from the west! 🙂
Although you probably don’t want anything more from the west?! 🙂
Cheri
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I suppose it is the lay of the land and the air currents that keep parts of the fields too wet. Thinking good thoughts for the darned corn to dry:)
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Thinking magic drying thoughts. Awfully pretty skies behind those cornstalks, but if I were you I might be too worried to appreciate them.
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It must be such an anxious time, watching the corn and seeing those clouds approaching. Ooooh, that so cold, so early.
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