It won’t be long now until we lose Daylight Saving Time
I hate the switch over…the nights are longer that ever
Even though now I drive into work just as the sun is getting up
I will go home in the twilight
I miss the early morning mists rising ff the river, as when I come it will be an hour later.
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Oh, well. Not much I can do about it, but enjoy what time I have left of Daylight Savings Time and look forward to Spring.
Linda
So, of course, Terry and I under-estimated the time it would take to put a new roof on
Not only that we still think we are 40 and not in our 60’s
And of course there is the leak that has to be fixed first
So as we are working on it, one of our neighbors dropped by and asked Terry to come down and help him with the starter on his tractor. So glad for a break, Terry went with Sam. One hour later Sam’s tractor was fixed and Sam was back in the field finishing up his hay.
The next morning…who showed up? Sam! Ready to help.
They got the hole patched and the roof covered with tarp before the rains hit.
They are still working on the roof today and will be tomorrow. But I must say….two on the roof makes for much faster work.
I still handle the stuff on the ground, but now Terry has really good help.
Linda
Terry’ has been working on the corn combine getting it ready to start corn harvest. Seems like equipment always has issues after sitting around for a year…even if it is put up nicely. (Of course it could be ours has issues because they are old.)
We’ve been seeing lots of little visitors to the corn fields and of course the deer are still bedding down in them. Once the harvest starts they will leave, but not now. Hunting season starts this week end so they are staying close, close to the farm.
We finished the last irrigation of the year and turned off the water for good. The alfalfa doesn’t dare go into the winter bone dry. On October 31, the canal will be shut off and the dams closed at Taylor, Blue Mesa and Ridgway dams until March of 2011. Farming will officially be over of another year.
Until then, though, we still have the corn to harvest…from the field to this
That is the goal as soon as the corn gets dry enough.
Linda
We didn’t pick him.
Somebody dumped him off. He was so hungry he went into the skunk trap and
bam…
We now have another dog…He looks to be around 5-7 years old, a purebred Beagle, nutered, house trained (loves to sleep on furniture—but THAT is NOT going to happen), and has good hips.
He and Fuzzy get along, Fuzzy who really doesn’t like any other dog—ever.
So Fuzzy has a new pal and (I can’t seem to think of a good name) has a new home.
Sigh!
Linda
We had snow in the high country over night…the peaks of the San Juan’s are white. I wonder if we have moved away from fall and are now headed into winter?
Oh! Please! Not Yet!!!!
The cows that are so lucky to get to spend their summers in the high country are coming home now. The air all around us is a cacophony of cattle calling and talking to each other. The calves are being weaned and the open (un-bred) cows-are being separated from their sisters/friends and the bulls are being ushered into the bull pastures.
It always amazes me how docile a bull can become once he is in the old-boys club and the females are no where around. Posturing occurs across all lines of species, I guess.
Our girls (we only have four) don’t get to go to the mountain, they never leave the place, spending all their lives right here on our hillsides and pastures.
We haven’t started weaning yet…next month.
At least the rain has cleared out for a little while. That will give us time to get some of the outside chores done. We are laying new irrigation pipe and making some new ditches. It’s easier to do this time of year instead of during the spring work.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Linda
Tallen was staying with us the other day and found
My favorite doll stored away in my closet
She also found Shannon’s favorite doll. Having a doll as big as you are is really sort of neat.
Tally played with them for a little while, but got side-tracked when she discovered Grandpa’s toy tractors.
Geeze, having the house tore up for new carpet is really fun…there are toys everywhere.
Linda
Beats me how we can go from a very long winter summer of wind and rain, more wind and rain, to suddenly heat so high and for weeks at a time. It was very good for harvest—still is. But the plateau is suffering
Its hunting season—all those early seasons like black powder with the first big rifle deer season starting in October.
The plateau has lots of stands of pine beetle killed trees and many patches of aspen killed by sudden aspen die off.
Sure is a scary time.
If you go hunting, or camping, or just hiking….and start a fire for your food, PLEASE take the time to put it out properly.
Linda
Mom has been really, really, really, —-did I say REALLY busy —so she asked me to blog for her today.
Lots of stuff has been happening here, first off after 37 years my people are finally getting a new carpet. Mom is really excited because she is having the WHOLE house carpeted at once. It’s been a little stressful for Dad and my brother Evan as they have had to move most of the furniture, but Mom helped when she wasn’t at work.
It’s a nice carpet, we animals can still walk on it and it won’t show dirt, my one requirement if they would have asked me, but they didn’t.
They are still working on the upstairs, but I never go upstairs anymore, it’s just too hard to climb stairs.
Mom said work has been way over-whelming with all the grant reports, the coal conference, the building maintence and all the regular paperwork, something about not enough days and hours in the days to get everything done. I really don’t understand, but that’s what I heard her telling Dad just this morning as she left for Paonia, again.
Anyway… that’s Mom’s big news but I have even bigger news
Not only does Zooker and
Bella come up all the time….so does
HANK!!!!
Hank is my 1st favorite sister’s new dog. He was just like me a throw away!
My 2nd favorite sister found Hank and brought him to Misty. She said she couldn’t keep another dog.
Dad agreed!
And so did Mom and Misty.
So Hank has come to live at Misty’s. Which is good. I still miss Checkers
But it is really good to go down to Misty’s and have a buddy to see. Hank comes up to see me also and I even share my bones with him.
Fuzzy
As I left for work (Paonia) at 6:30 this morning I was struck by the beauty of the morning and the low lying full moon
It had been raining for two days so the air had a fresh feel about it. It felt like a perfect day.
And it has turned out to be one. I made it to and from without a hitch, not even having to stop for the road construction. The 2010 Coal Conference we were hosting turned out even better than anyone could have imagined; with 100 people in attendance.
The morning moon started my day out just right so I had to share it with you!
Linda
