We got the call from the rancher the cows would come in today. Off Terry and I went to check all the fences one last time, check the fence around the other house, and the electric fence at the horse corral. After a wind sometimes big weeds get into the electric fences and cause them to short out.
It’s been a spell ( a whole year) since these cows have been here; they will be wound up and very excited searching out their new pastures…
Having the cows run through a non-working electric fence would NOT be a good thing.
After lunch, we warmed ourselves up
Splitting some firewood for the house…warmth in splitting the wood; warmth in the fireplace.
Then, as the long dark shadows started showing in the sky we headed in…satisfied everything was good to go for the house, the cows, and the farm.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
i don’t exactly know WHY, but Betty gets a craving (4 lackuvva beddurwerd) to go rent a log-splitter. could be she’s the one doing the actual splitting, whereas i’m the slave/servant/peasant helper — ‘feeding’ her the big pieces, removing the accumulation, etc. she’d be jealous! (what is that big pole by the splitter?)
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A basketball hoop….now the kids can play again. It was covered up with wood!
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Exciting times—Mooo
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Very much so!
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Yay it’s cow time :-D.
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YA! I can hardly wait…I adore cows!
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It’s like getting ready for once a year welcome guests
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Yes!! Very Welcome guests!
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I do love cows and wish I had a farm for them to come to visit. They look so sweet. Glad to see you found a way to get warm. 😉 It’s quite chilly here too but I love it.
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Very cloudy and over-cast and cold here. Snowing in the mountains…which we so desperately need.
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Yay for snow in the mountains. That means water later. 😉 Colder here too than usual.
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Wood warms you many times, cutting, stacking, splitting, hauling in the house and finally in the fire:) I miss the wood heat.
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Wood heat is really good. We have propane back up, but isn’t nearly as warm as wood.
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There does not seem to be much firewood there. I know that quite a bit can come from what appears to be small trees. When I was a kid, firewood could be picked up for free on the edges of abandoned orchards. Those getting rid of the trees cut it up and everything, just so the neighbors would take it away. The remaining debris just got piled and burned. The orchards are all gone. There are more than a million people in the neighborhood now, but very few use fireplaces anymore. New fireplaces are illegal. Most of the old fireplaces were ruined in 1989 by the Loma Prieta Earthquake. Those that can still be used, can only be used on certain days, when weather conditions are just so. My neighbors in the Santa Cruz Mountains sell firewood from here, but there is not much market for it. There are more than a million people in the Santa Clara Valley now, and almost none of them know what firewood is for. Environmentalists want to outlaw fireplaces here too, even for homes that have no other source of warmth. They want the forest to be as combustible as possible.
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That’s happening around here. Not where we live by in the mountains like Aspen.
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Beautiful photos Linda! That’s some wood you have there to split. Good luck with those fences ..
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Thanks! They are all in place now and doing well.
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