Terry has started rolling down the plowed earth. Thankfully the rain and the sun and the wind did not damage to the soil. By damage I mean it didn’t cause our clay type of soil to turn into bricks, ready to be fired. 🙂
It’s always nice to see the soil smooth out and start to look like a seed bed. He will still have to level the field, fertilize, and then mark it out. We always irrigate before we plant–it’s called ‘wet planting’. Some of the farmers around here do ‘dry planting’, which means they plant first then water.
We have also been moving the gated pipe around, we had three pipe break over the winter so now we have to do some adjusting.
You can see the broken pipe on the left, we will set this good pipe in it’s place. (One down two more to go 🙂
We have to have the pipe set before the fields are done with the tractor work—-everything has to be in place to start the water…time is moving along fast now. By the first week in April we hope to have the water on the land.
Our weekend was outstanding! The whole family from Craig, Colorado was here, then on Sunday we were (all) the two sets of kids and their spouses, the Craig family, Terry and I were at our son-in-law’s 43 birthday party. Good food and family, really who could ask for more?
Anyway, off to get some stuff done. I hope your day is a good one.
Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
hooray for progress! and a good weekend, too.
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Always perfect when you can say the days were outstanding!!! You two will be super busy again, just doing field work rather than the house stuff!
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Looks like things are really moving along. I love how farm work requires knowing what to do today, as well as being able to look ahead to what comes next.
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Today we are being blown away. Terry and I got some of the work done this morning, but the afternoon has turned out to be ‘work in the 35 m.p.h. wind’. We got one set of pipes fixed and gave up…the wind was just too tiring.
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Thank you for all your hard work. Have a blessed day!
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Everything is looking good and sounds like it is falling into place nicely. Glad you had a wonderful weekend! How are the flower beds?
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So busy that I’ve been away from my own blog. But I couldn’t stay away from the beauty of your sky. So gorgeous. Happy spring, Linda!
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I am now waiting to show the farmer this post about irrigating the land – it is just so totally foreign to anything which happens round here and therefore fascinating. Agree about family, food, happy meetings – nothing like it.
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It would be a treat if you could come here some time and we could go there. Of course the time to see anything would be in the summer and farmers can never leave in the summer.
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Looks like grreat weather to put seed in the dirt. It sounds like a good idea to plant in wet-ish soil. So often we get days of wind right after the wheat goes in. Then all the farmers trade dirt and seed in the process. ;/
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Exciting times. The apricot (?) blossom on your header is just fantastic and sets the tone for the whole planting season.
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I’m glad you had another wonderful weekend with your family. I know this is a busy time, but it is also an exciting time to be a farmer.
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You will get it all done in time then the watering starts and then you won’t get any time off. Glad you had a good weekend:)
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Your work is never done, always something, isn’t it? I guess that is life.
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That must be quite a feeling to sense that it’s all surging back to life and activity and work…like a wave coming that will not change course and you will, of course, be swept up and carried along with it until the next “down time” comes. Up and down. Up and down.
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Your ability to not be beaten by diversity is a light to my fire. A broken pipe, too much rain, not enough rain, wind, storms…..farmers are made of much tougher material than most of us!
So happy to hear you had a weekend with family.
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A wonderful weekend for sure. And I’m glad the weather cooperated so that you didn’t have a brickyard out there instead of a farm.
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