The irrigation water is about to get here!
We are getting the canal repaired and ready for the thundering, crashing, life-giving source called water to appear any time now.
We went for a ride last night to see how far away the water is from us….once it gets here..irrigation starts. Irrigation starts and doesn’t stopped (even if it rains), until time for harvest. Twice a day or even every six hours, if the water is short, we move and set water. Often times through out the day we are checking rows making sure the water is flowing through…going clear to the end, to move to the next field, then the next until it finally flows back into the canal and then onto the Gunnison River….which will connect with the Colorado River.
It’s five miles away. Not long now.
Today or tomorrow!
We are cleaning all the cement ditches (yes by hand), Terry made all the ditches he could with the ditcher
And the waste ditches with the blade
And we repaired the gated pipe. Gated pipe always
Always, seems to pull apart over the course of winter.
The first of the fields to receive water (the alfalfa fields) are marked out ready to go
We just wait….
Any day now…any day!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
You sound so excited and I’m excited for you. Hope it holds out all summer!
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Me too. They are saying the water is going to be short this year….not enough snow in the mountains. But we could have lots of rain which will help with evaporation.
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I always mark shearing here and water at your place each spring :-).
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Spring rites! We have our special times, don’t we? 🙂
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You last shot looks lovely. So, if you did not pipe in the water there would not be any farming in that area? Where does the water come from? How far does it travel? c
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It comes all the way from from the snow capped mountains, on it’s way down through the Uncompahgre River to the Colorado River. No there would be no farming. But the pioneers figured out a very complicated system of canals so we can!
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Colorado’s liquid gold ~ Excited for your growing season!
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ME TOO!
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I can feel the excitement over the coming water even here in Tennessee. Spring is here!
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The growing season is about to begin!
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We live on a desert…except for glorious irrigation water.
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Yes…that’s us! 🙂
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And here, the tail end of the cyclone season has a sting in it; all very late this year, and torrential rain and flooding. The caravan park we stayed in just over a month ago was washed out by a waist-high surge of floodwater… take a look:
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-27/flooding-cairns-worst-generation-dozens-rescued-region-roads-cut/9590726)
PS: I hope this won’t put a huge lump of text into your post. If it does, please feel free to delete everything.
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WOW! I’m so glad you weren’t there, but oh, my what a huge scary mess
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I feel so sorry for the poor owners, who had a real little paradise there…
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Me too 😦
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Very exciting Linda….I can’t believe it’s time for the water to come gushing forth again. Can’t wait to see and hear all about it!
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It didn’t come yesterday so maybe today!
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Do you stand and watch as it begins to trickle and then flood to your farm????
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It comes in a huge large push of a large flood of water full of weeds. It takes a back hoe to get the weeds out. No tickle here.
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Working season. 🙂 Farmers never retire, do they?
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Not unless they rent out the land and never look at it again….Terry says he doesn’t think he can do that. 🙂
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Your hearts are in it.
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Yeah for water! I hope you get enough to have good crops! 🙂
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Thank you…Me too!
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This is so fascinating to me! I cannot imagine having to wait for water…but can imagine the excitement you must feel!
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The settlers of this area were very excited to figure out HOW to get water…they almost left because (coming from back east where water is plentiful) there wasn’t a way to grow crops.
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How exciting! Water is on the way .. Love the last image 😄
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Still not here…very late this year.
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