Today is the Ides of March…the Ides of March the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. Caesar was stabbed to death at a meeting led by Brutus and Cassius. A seer had warned that hime harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March (See Wikipedia).
For me it also seems to be a date when the weather starts to shift. Yesterday we had lots of wind! Huge stiff wind gusts. But today…it’s cold and beautiful.
A update on the farming—
The old alfalfa field is ready to mark out and plant. It will be corn this coming year
Terry finished leveling that field around four yesterday afternoon. Leveling is the last step of soil preparation…
first is disking
then either plowing or ripping depending on the soil and what was grown in that field last year.
Then leveling.
After leveling will be marking, irrigation and then planting.
One field down!
The conversation every evening goes like this: “I sure am tired. I don’t know WHY I wanted to farm again.”
“Well, goodness! Anyone would be tired after eight hours on a tractor.”
“I guess.” he replies…”but I don’t think of hours, I think of acres.”
“Okay…anyone would be tired after acres and acres and acres on a tractor.”
“True.”
Then morning comes——
(Ripping up the old pinto bean field early, early this morning.)
“Well the sun is poking his head up, ♪♫♫♪ guess I’ll head on out. Nothing like a fresh day to get some work done. ♪♫❤♪♫❤ The dirt is calling me!”
Then with a smile and wave he’s out the door, fueling up the tractor and leaving the farm yard in a little puff of dirt.
From our western Colorado farm •❥*◝◟¸* to you!
Linda ❤(smiles)
Life on a Colorado Farm 
If everyone is happy I am happy.
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And you are happy back in the States?
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He will probably never be happy unless he spends his days on a tractor.
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Probably not! Although, he sure is tired at night. Which is a good thing!
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To paraphrase a statement made about those of us who live in the mountains of Tennessee, “You can take the farmer out of the dirt, but you can’t take the dirt out of the farmer!”
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That is so true!!!
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Hi ho, ho ho, it’s off to work he goes……I hear the same things…just a slightly different subject. I love your history lessons too b.t.w.
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And your pin-up cowboy is off to another bull sale and show! You so do understand! You are most welcome!
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Terry is a happy man because he knows three things: Who he is, what he’s here for and why he does it: a good man who does an important job he loves.
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Sometimes I wonder what my three things are…do you know yours, Kate? I keep looking for me. But you are right. Terry does know…and that is a lucky person who knows.
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I have a vague idea, but all I know is that I must create things, whether it’s beauty in the garden, tasty things in the kitchen, or pretty things I sew. Take those things away from me and I am utterly diminished.
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Then you are like Terry and understand and know yourself! Lucky you!
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He is mostly a happy farmer. Hope you are too! 🙂
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Mostly…just gets tired easier now!
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Your post really made me laugh Linda – it is rather like the conversations that go on here. The trouble with farmers is if they retire and go to live in bungalows they just don’t know what to do with themselves. Once the dog is walked and the news paper is read from cover to cover they do tend to fall asleep in the chair.
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You are so right, Pat!
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Farming is tireless, and often very thankless work. But we love it, and can’t see ourselves doing anything else. There is something about toiling the soil, working the land and growing food for an ever increasing population, that makes us really love what we do.
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We so understand! I don’t know if we will every stop…Terry says I’ll find him on a tractor, or a combine, or out on the ditch…when the time comes.
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What a great guy .. The dirt is calling me
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ME TOO! I think we mesh together well!
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I’ve gotten behind in reading. I wondered if the farmer would be back to the fields this year. Now we know. 😀
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