Linda
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August 16, 2011
I heard this really loud bird up in the cottonwood tree….loud! Finally I had to go see who/what was making such a racket. There, next to a little Hummingbird nest, sat this tiny hawk. (At least I think it was a tiny hawk) I watched for a long time trying to figure out what was going on—was the hawk after the hummer? Were there any babies in the nest? I never found out the answer to either one of my questions, but for sure, I never saw a hummer fly even close by.
I think the nest is empty, after several days I have not seen any type of activity around or close by it from any of the hummers in the yard.
As for the tiny hawk…he flew away.
A very fast thunder and lightening storm blew in causing a forest fire some where behind Grand Mesa somewhere.
Other than that life is really busy. Its canning season…that speaks for itself. The pinto beans are getting close to harvest…the lower leaves are starting to turn yellow and the pods are starting to stripe. Terry is thinking that maybe, just maybe….there will be one more irrigation for the pintos, or not. Terry will check all the soil and see if they need more water. Terry really doesn’t want to water if they don’t need it….trying to combine in mud is NOT good.
Linda
The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday —Houston
Ah, the Lovely Miss Houston!
Houston lives two miles from us….two whole miles. She is a beautiful yellow dog; some sort of cur, I’m not sure what kind. Her Mom knows what kind, but I never can remember. Oh, yes. Mountain Cur, she has papers and everything.
And it doesn’t matter.
Boomer and I love Hou-Bug!
Hou-Bug lives with two Rottweilers – Balou and Rock. Big dogs! Huge dogs! Big! Huge! My Mom says they are sweet and pets all over them and give them back rubs. Boomer and I are rather terrified of them and bark lots at them! We give them the best of our barks. Loud and long! I try to put a grrr in my bark and Boomer tries to make his bay deeper. We bark until Mom says “That enough now!” Then we stop and try to get right on top of Mom and in the way of her petting those B.I.G. dogs.
Dad makes Shannon keep all her dogs in the back of her truck…they pee on everything you know. Of course wherever they pee Boom and I have to pee over it because, well, it is OUR place! Houston gets to get out….sometimes. Not very often, only once in a while.
Boomer and I love Shannon. She is a dog person, well she is a cat person also, but we won’t go down that road. Dog person is enough. Cats we just let live here, life is really about dogs. But I digress.
I’ve been thinking of Houston…Houston of the soft yellow fur, lovely brown eyes. Sigh!
Of course when I think of Houston I have to think of Rock and Balou. They all seem to go together. “The Boys” I guess are likeable…they have no real glaring flaws, act just like well, dogs.
They also bark a lot. I mean a lot…they bark the whole time they are riding down the road… “Hey World!!! We are free! Riding like the Wind!” Bark! BARK! Woof! Bark!
I hate to admit it but Hou-Bug barks right along with them.
And Puff (Hank). He never barks in our truck or in his own, but if he is with Shannon all he does is bark, bark, bark, just like her dogs!
Now Boom and I we never bark going down the highway, refined dogs just don’t do that. We sniff the air a lot and trade sides so not to miss anything, beside Dad would make us stay at home if we barked the whole time. 
I decided years and years and years ago I would not bark out-of-place so I won’t miss anything. Boomer said every time he barked he had to go into the garage. Where he used to live No ONE, not a single person there liked a barking dog. Sometimes some of the people would talk about de-barking any dogs that lived where he used to live.
Shudder.
Shudder!!!!
Hank likes to hang out with Shannon and her mob of dogs. He even goes to play with them in the river. 
If Shannon even acts like she is even THINKING about asking Boomer and I to go we slink away and hide in our dog houses…we are NOT getting in the back of the truck with all of those loud dogs.
No sireee.
Fuzzy
Wordless Wednesday
Harvests are Starting in Our Area
It doesn’t seem possible but we are on the last irrigation of the season for the pinto beans. The pods are full and the beans are starting to harden up, once the pods stripe Terry will put the bean puller on the tractor and pull the plants. This will allow them to dry. Then he will combine.
About the middle of September (is our prediction) we will begin the harvest of the pinto beans.
This year I have raised 10 different varieties of dry bush beans (like pinto beans). Because they are in the yard they are ripening and getting ready for harvest sooner.
I just harvested my Red Mexican bean.
I have several others in the drying stage,
of course my harvest is all done by hand 🙂
The sweet corn harvest is in full swing also. We wake up every morning (5:00) to the sound of the sweet corn pickers on thier way to work. The first load of corn heads into the cooler around 6:30. They stop picking about dark. If you see Olathe Sweet or Mountain Sweet—-sweet corn in your market you will know it came from a farm somewhere close to ours!
Enjoy your summer, it’s starting to some to a close when the harvests begin!
Linda
Hay Customers
Amanda and Matt from http://barnraisin.blogspot.com/ Barn Raisin blogspot came to buy hay. Once more meeting blog friends is like meeting old friends.
Linda
Mid-Summer When all the Earth Rejoices
Everything and every animal is looking rich and fat
The corn is filling out
Even though the heat has returned, I really don’t mind. I love spring, summer and fall. All parts of each season.
The rains have left for a spell, but just before they left a rainbow landed in the pinto bean field.
All is right with my world.
Have a wonderful Sunday, everyone!
Linda
Hummingbird Nests
Two little families of Hummingbirds have built nests in one of our really old sheds.
I keep waiting for the little birds to hatch, but then they do and I miss them. Darn it.
Anyway, I’ll keep watching. The next set of eggs I hope to see hatch and if I do so will you!
Linda
Getting Ready for Winter
We’ve been cutting and hauling wood. Permits are not expensive and you get 4 cords of wood.
Gradually we (meaning all of our kids and us) are getting our winter supply.
We mostly cut on the Uncompahgre Plateau, which is behind our farm.
It’s for sure I can’t haul out logs this size…. its a good thing our son can. They (meaning Terry/ Evan / Kelly) have to cut the logs down so the rest of us can haul and load them. 🙂
This is a view coming off the top of Grand Mesa. I grew up in that valley down there…which is the Cedaredge/ Eckert area. Lots more people there than when I was a kid. At the time of my youth it was mostly cattle ranches and fruit farms. We had 36 kids graduate out of my Senior class.
Everything changes as time moves on.
We saw another rainbow as we headed in from the plateau
You all might be getting tired of these gifts from heaven, but I sure am enjoying them.
Linda
Rain Chute Rainbow
This morning was cool and damp as we aheaded out to set the water around 6:00. It’s twilight at 5:30 so we have moved setting water to 6:00. As time goes on we will move to 6:30.
There were lots of clouds in the sky and some of the canyons and buttes and mesas around us were getting rain.
On the last set the sun popped over the Paonia Mountains and hit a rain chute over the Uncompahgre Plateau
It was stunning to say the least!
On the way back in the sun also caught a spider web causing it to glow and sparkle.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 