About Dayphoto

My name is Linda Brown. I live on a farm on the western slope of Colorado, in the high mountain desert. I’ve lived here all my life, hailing back four generations on my father’s side. Today I blog about our farm, the everyday activities that keep the farm going. I also write about my thoughts and dreams and goals. On Friday’s I always write about TLC Cai-Cai. Our sweet kitty who helps keep the farm safe. And Boo Berry Betty, a breeder dog learning to be a Farm Dog! The lovely thing about blogging it opens the world up for all of us to reach out and meet people from many different cultures and different ways of life. You can find me every day (but Saturday) at https://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com/ Your Friend on a Western Colorado Farm, Linda Brown

Last Night’s Sunset—Monday, October 5, 2015

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Dayphoto

We had a most gorgeous sunset last night…

Such a beautiful sight to behold.

Tonight after 5:00 I must call this certain number to find out if I have jury duty tomorrow. OH! How I hope I don’t have jury duty, or if I do…I am NOT picked.

I do NOT want to be the judge of someone else’s life. EVER!

I’ve had people judge me, and my life, and even throw stones. I do NOT want to decide the verdict of someone else life…..ever!

Here is a little Irish Proverb, which I like: “When I count my blessings, I COUNT YOU TWICE!”

With much friendship,

Linda

The Color Shouted—Sunday, October 4, 2015

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Dayphoto

We took a short drive to Grand Mesa, making the loop from the Cedaredge side, to the Collbran side, then back around again.
It was marvelous!

“Everywhere she walked the color shouted

And sang around her…

In October any wonderful

Unexpected thing might

be possible.”—Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Eye candy for the soul!

Your friend,

Linda

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—Things to be Doing

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Dayphoto

“Hurry up, Boom! We’ve got things we need to be doing!” Mom patted her leg and took off at a good clip of a walk.

Huh?! Hurry! UP!? That only means one thing… we are going somewhere!

Yep, Mom lifted my up on the back of the four-wheeler, waited a spell. Dad was moving the tractor with the loader out of its shed, which is right behind where Mom and Dad park their four-wheelers.

Then Dad took off going one direction and Mom and I headed to the Back Forty!

Soon as we were up where we were going mom gave me the talk: (I get the talk EVERYTIME, okay…Mom go ahead, get it over with so I can go do my stuff) “Don’t roll in anything stinky or nasty, Boomer. Or you won’t get to sleep inside tonight! Also, come when I call or you hear my four-wheeler start…there will be a treat for you when we get back home.”

TREAT! I love TREATS, so I really, really, really, try hard to remember to come when mom calls or the four-wheeler starts. I really do TRY hard!!!!

So anyway, Mom started doing whatever it was she wanted to do up there and I took OFF! There so many things to sniff and smell!

Fun things to look upon and interesting animals….sniff, sniff….badger… porcupine—hum, don’t go that way…once quilled is enough for me. Let’s see the swamp is full of Red-winged blackbirds…Pheasants, doves, quails…ah so much to learn ab…..

HUH!!! Do I hear Mom calling? Maybe…I’ll go in a minute or so…sniff, sniff… OH! The four-wheeler is starting up…HURRY! I got to hurry or I won’t get a treat….HURRY!!!

WAIT MOM!! I’M COMING!!! WAIT!!!!

Yumm—dog cookie!

Humm, mom is back outside and has her purse… “Come on, Boom! Let’s go to town.”

TOWN! Oh, boy! TOWN!

Gosh, this has been a great day…and it isn’t even noon yet!

Wonder what the afternoon is going to bring!

Boomer

Another Photo Gift from Merri—Thursday, October 1, 2015

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dayphoto

She calls it “The Color of Home”.

Thank you so much, Merri, for sharing this with us!

Linda

Another Job Done Until Spring—Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dayphoto

Well, we got half of the dirt cleaned off of the settling pond! (all the edges must be cleaned off so the pond can be re-dug in the spring.)

The rest will wait until March or early April, just before the water is turned into the ditches on that field.

Boomer had a great time…but nothing compares to loading up and ‘escorting’ in and out hay customers! Well, maybe right up there with the Mail Lady—and SHE always has a dog cookie with Boomer’s name written on it!

A good couple of days work! Nothing broke down, everything went smooth as glass.

You can’t ask for more than that. 🙂

Your friend on a western Colorado farm.

Linda

Waiting for the Moon, Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Dayphoto

Like all of you, Terry and I waited for the Super/Blood moon to rise over the eastern mountains. (Although, Terry had to jump up randomly from the Broncos game), Boomer and I sat outside and ….watched!

The site was a fascinating wonder to behold

What an amazingly beautiful gift from the heavens

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Scenes of Fall, Monday, September 28, 2015

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Dayphoto

We have finished with the pinto beans. Cleaned up the truck and the combines putting them to bed for…well, forever.

Today we start hauling dirt from the settling ponds..

Sometimes we haul the dirt in the spring, but this year Terry wants to do it in the fall.

He is very serious about renting out the place next year, so he wants to have the farm in ‘perfect’ order for the renter.

We use this dirt to build up areas that have either washed away or blown away. This soil is also spread out over the farm ground to fill in holes that have developed.

Off now! My wish for you is that your day is the best it can be!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Mount Saint Helens-Sunday, September 27, 2015

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Dayphoto

Suz, another fun blog follower, sent me a series of photos from her area. She lives in the shadow of Mount Saint Helens, in Oregon.

Last week she and a friend of hers took a trip to the up the Mountain of Mount St. Helen’s. Her friend, is Dana Hunter, who is writing a book about Mount St. Helens.

Anyway…just look at this series of photos! She said there were taken on the road up to the

Johnson Ridge Observatory, located at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.

What a stunning and amazing mountain/volcano!

Thank you, to Suz! I hope everyone enjoys these photo like I did!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm

Linda

The Adventures of Boomer on Friday—News of Our Work

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Dayphoto

We are finishing up lots of things now…Lots of stuff.

I love this time of year! There is Always something to do…sorta like spring. Only opposite. In the spring we are ‘putt’n stuff in the ground’ and in the fall we are taking stuff OFF the ground. 🙂

So far we’ve had really pretty nice weather…blue skies and slight breezes. Keeps the heat and the bugs off a dog. And er, my people also.

We are still irrigating…that’s the best part for me.

I sniff out the news in the corn tunnels,

check for interesting things in the alfalfa field….I saw where a snake shed its skin. Looked like a pretty big snake to me!

The raccoons keep coming in my yard at night. I chase them off…there is NO room for a raccoon in our yard…they can have the whole farm, but NOT my yard!

I like to run as fast as I can in the fields…I don’t know a dog out there that doesn’t like to run and feel his ears flapping on his head…makes a dog feel free!

My sister, Shannon, has a new member to her family…Scout, the pinto horse. He is really a neat horse…although, I AM a tad afraid of him…I’ve never been around a horse IN MY LIFE! Now Willow, one of Shannon’s cats, LOVES Scout…they do all sorts of things together…I like to hover way over there (somewhere Not close) and just watch…Scout seems so BIG!

We have a cool spider in the yard…it makes a NET for a web. I haven’t seen the spider yet, but I keep looking.

The bean harvest is done. We are still ‘chasing water’, as Fuzzy used to say,

Fuzzy lives over the rainbow bridge now, Mom and I still miss him loads.

I have the bestest life in the whole wide world! Running Free, riding on the four-wheeler with Mom, gathering news, gosh, just so many great things to do every day!

Boomer

Getting Close–Thursday, September 25, 2015

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Dayphoto

We are getting close (now), to being done, with the pinto bean harvest. Tomorrow should see the end!

Prices are low. They are low on the corn and the hay also. But storing something doesn’t always produce a higher price later on.

I always find this so odd…the farmer get a small amount, but the retail in the grocery store is extremely high…too many middle people along the way, I guess.

We are still irrigating the alfalfa field. It’s a big field and takes a long time to get across, but we should finish with the irrigation by Saturday.

After that we wait.