The work goes on…first light –until way past last light– arriving back in the yard in a flurry of falling stars in the velvet night.
Yesterday Terry worked in the alfalfa field and I finished up raking the whole yard, all the flower beds, around all the outbuildings, and
(This is an old photo, but it gives you an idea of what I did yesterday)
worked on getting the canal bank ready for the water to come. A huge job.
The fertilizer truck arrived around 7 this morning. So now Terry is
rolling the fertilizer on the corn fields.
Water is supposed to be in the canal any day now. We took a short drive around 5 yesterday afternoon, checking the canals above us to see where the water was…our lives revolve around water.
It’s a busy time of year, but a good time. It gives me a sense of reaching out to something ever so much larger than myself. Our farm, a small, vibrant island of life.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
It amazes me to see your weather! We are at 17 degrees with a foul north wind today. Ack! Love to see the farming going on though.
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We are cooler today…64* with a storm coming in. I’m ready for spring.
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That last photo shows such a dramatic sky!
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A storm was brewing, but the light broke through and was GOLDEN!
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Surely you & Terry are an integral part of Nature at her finest. I believe in the “reaching out”, & ponder it, when I’m gardening. Sandy
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Me too!!! 🙂
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What a very rewarding life you and Terry are living
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It fits the like of us, that is for sure!
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That last photo is wonderful. We have clouds like that just now, but they’re dropping their load, so no beautiful golden light, and the storm drain out the front is full up and running in spate. The Wet is so late this year…
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Today we are in a huge wind storm! Sigh! The fields are loose so we are in a huge DUST storm. Now you get to have MORE FLOWERS!!!
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The hibiscus will keep on and on, but the others are slowing down; we’re right at the end of summer and there’s a bit less flower action in the Dry. I hope your wind eases soon, or all that carefully nurtured soil will end up in another county.
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I know. It stopped blowing around three this morning. Today the world is beautiful!
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I need to rake some too, I am jealous that you are all done and that it looks warm there:)
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Yesterday was a huge mess of high winds and loose dirt, but today it is beautiful!
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Impressive sky in that last picture. I love how many years I’ve watched for your water too :-).
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Yes you have! And I have had to joy of loving every sheep who comes on your farm!
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Life really is all about the water isn’t it? We all need to remember that, even if it isn’t as immediately in our minds the way it is in yours. I hope you get what you need this year.
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It looks like a very good year for water here! More snow in the mountains yesterday!
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Such busy people .. oh yes life does revolve around water! I ate my first homegrown corn yesterday .. amazing!
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Oh! Good for you! I think the water comes today or tomorrow!
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Awesome photos. That is one wicked sky out there. Would scare the dickens out of me.
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Storms all around us, but nothing landing so far.
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That’s good news. 🙂
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Dreary weather…I miss the sun!
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J & D > We’ve been researching your part of Colorado – using Google Earth and Wikipedia. so now we knew something about ‘The Water’! But with this post we begin to understand the practicalities. Now to look up how water from tunnel is allocated and controlled! We have grazing rights, seaweed and peat. You have … The Water!
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Or the lack there of….
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