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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

Fall Work

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The canal is empty!  No more water heading toward the sea. (Or ocean or whatever)

Terry started putting in the new transmission pipe

Of course he had to dig part of it by hand

Then the majority of it could lay in the cement ditch

This is so the cement ditch won’t be so hard to take care of next spring

Every year the ditch fills up with winter trash from the neighboring farms…this year the wind was just way too much

As you can see by the above photo.  So we are hoping a new transfer PIPE will work better than the transfer ditch.

Fuzzy still likes to help us out, but he rides now instead of running

And Boomer ?….  Well, Boomer has fit right into his new life here at the farm.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Linda

The Water is Gone

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They have cut off the water for another year.

I always hate to see the water go out of the canal.  Although, it is wickedly fast and dangerous it still has a beautiful sound which I love to hear.

Just another sign of approaching winter.

Oh, well!  I best get my head around it, for there is no way I’m going to stop winter from coming.

Linda

Getting Closer

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Some of the farmers around here finally hit 14% and have started harvesting their corn.  We are at 17.2%.

The days are warmer (which helps) with cold nights, and some wind –see the stalks blowing?

All of this helps dry down the ears, although we don’t want hard winds, that will shell the corn right in the shuck!

Linda

A World Full of Color

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We took a short trip to Craig,Colorado,  to get a car (for parts)

Craig and Hayden are homes of two power plants (Hayden 1 and Hayden 2), the communties also have several large coal mines that keep the nation supplied with electricity.

When my Daddy sold the orchards they moved to Hayden where Dad worked for Tri-State at both of the two power plants.  Momma worked for Peabody Coal.

On our way back home, we saw a desert rainbow. 

All in all it was a very beautiful day!

Linda

Deer Run

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A few years ago a person I was working with googled our farm and came to work all excited because we have crop circles all over our place. 

Of course, we had to see what all the fuss was about…

Turned out the crop circles were just deer runs

We had a good laugh over it.

The deer like to bed down in the corn fields (see the smashed stalks).  Works out really nice for them, they are hidden AND they have food all around.

On the other hand I was rather disappointed…darn I could have seen a real crop circle up close.

Then on the money side…well at least some huge magic ‘thing’ didn’t do art in our field.

Have a nice weekend everyone.  We’ve warmed up here (somewhat) so hopefully the mud will start to dry up.

Linda

SNOW!!!!!

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It started snowing as I left work for home.


And turned off cold!  Really cold so cold we had to build a fire.  We are now in for the long haul of winter.

The snow didn’t stay long, but still……

Linda

Is This the Last ?!

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It’s raining now, and all last night.  More rain for the rest of the week and snow for Tuesday and Wednesday.  Of course that could change and the whole thing blow out of here tomorrow.  (Oh, that we should be so lucky!)

I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Linda

Storm Blowing In

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  My drive to work in Paonia today was beautiful!  Just beautiful!  The whole day has been a day of wonder… when I woke up this morning a fox was sitting on the back door steps.  I think he was as shocked as I was that I opened the door and found him/her there. 

Now the cat wasn’t too happy about it, Sammy changed his mind real fast about not wanting to go outside. 

He didn’t need to worry … the fox left just a fast as a blink of an eye.  I went out and checked to make sure he was gone and that the chickens were safe.  Still Sammy stayed in the house until it was starting to get lighter in the sky, then he must have decided that the fox would be gone and went out.

We have a storm coming in today/night with rain and snow so I suppose the colors will soon be gone.  The earth has turned enough that we are now looking at snow.

Our corn is still to high of moisture to start combining…we are coming in around 20%.  The rain will keep the moisture up there, but once we start having snow we should see the air starting to dry out and the moisture in the corn dropping

Linda