Terry is checking the moisture in the furrows—we want the water to sub over under the top of the soil, deep inside of the furrow
You can see the top of the soil showing wet
It seems simple, doesn’t it?Ā And in theory, it is; in practice, it takes lots of monitoring and paying close attention
Sometimes you can walk out on a dry looking row and suddenly sink right up to your ankles…sigh.
The water running beneath the dam is good…this is the water going to the next field — if the water was coming over the top of the dam we would need to start more tubes
The brilliant rays of sunlight on the furrows, in one of the alfalfa fields
It was so pretty, the glow of the rays, the sparkle of the water, the rich green of the alfalfa plants coming together in a perfect way.
Then when I looked up, in the bluest of blue skies, a sweet little bird flew over-head
The work is hard, still nothing to hide from,
I truly could not ask for more.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Look at that sky over your green alfalfa! Just Beautiful ~
I will always be amazed with your irragation work ~
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A work it is…but oh, so rewarding.
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I really like that sparkle and the other beauty you found when out working in the fields.
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Are you in your garden now? It’s almost hot here today.
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Your Alfalfa field is so pretty:) Stay safe!
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It’s a rather young field. Last year was it’s first year to be harvested, so this is it’s second year. Alfalfa (here) only has a life-span of 4-5 years. Thank you
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and ignoring the virus, the land comes back to life.
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Huh? Oh. You mean the land ingnors the virus…I thought you meant Terry and I.
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The return of the water seems symbolic of the return of life to the land and the return that Easter signifies as well, Stay safe and strong dear friend.
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Beautiful, you are so right! Stay safe there in on your New York farm!
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Your work is never done. Goodness.
Your gorgeous bird photo…the cloud in the background looks like a bird, too.
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Sometimes Terry and I come in at dark and say…I’m going to bed. Then we look at the clock and see it’s 9 p.m. No wonder we are tire, 5 am to 9 pm. Long days.
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Hello Linda .. so many wonderful images the last is especially beautiful! You both are always so busy. Andrew said to tell you that when he was discussing alfalfa as a quick crop in NZ, he was thinking about lucerne instead. Apologies from him! š
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No need to apologize…we wouldn’t have known any different. š
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This is very interesting to me. I always thought farmers used a sprinkler system to water their crips. I haven’t seen this form of watering; it looks a lot better of a system then the sprinkler
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Sprinklers work when a farmer is pumping water from an aquifier or large body of water. Sprinklers also put the water down and it doesn’t go anywhere accept into the soil. Here we use the water over and over and over again.
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