This week’s Sunday Stills is all about statues or figurines.
I at first thought about heading to the cemetery, then I realized I had a couple of pieces in my yard
My favorite are the mushrooms…the light through the sprinkler added just the right drama.
Linda
The Crazy Sheep Lady had a little contest the other day to gift the lucky winner with two jars of her very own honey.
Not only does The Crazy Sheep Lady have some of the cutest sheep on the blog block, she is also a bee keeper.
So lucky me
A jar for Terry and I and one for Misty and her family!
Our morning waffles tasted very, very good!
And along with the cool jars was a start of a really neat plant which is her favorite houseplant.
The common name of this plant is Apostle Plant because the plant sends out an iris type bloom only after it’sproduced 12 leaves. Each bloom lasts one day and one day only.
What a really neat week this has been!
Linda
Last winter Chuck from http://www.tellicoturnings.com/ saw on my blog that we had damage to our very old lilac tree. He asked if we would send him the damaged wood and he would pay for the postage. We were very glad to do so.
Then on Monday of this week the mail brought to Terry and I this
A beautiful hand-turned pepper-mill!
“Lilac is a beautiful wood and has a very pleasant odor when I work it…. ” Chuck told me by email. “Thanks for sending me the wood… I do appreciate it and enjoy working with it.”
Chuck Ellis
What a wonderful surprise! Thanks, very much, Mr. Ellis!
Linda and Terry
Our alfalfa is now cut. The weatherman says (SAYS) we are to have 7 days or more of good ‘ol sunshine.
Misty told her Dad that she wants to learn to farm. Evan knows how, now it’s her turn.
Practice makes perfect! Driving and cutting with laterals really isn’t as easy as Dad makes it look.
Each row should be straight and square to the field.
Oh, well. Next she can learn to pull the pinto beans.
Linda
Metal in the universal language of Money!
I had to really think what to do for the Sunday Stills Challenge—- should I do something green as in John Deere Green metal and the I had the great idea…money! Everyone understands the metal of money!
Linda
Another huge down pour hit our area yesterday around 5:30 in the evening
The rain was coming in sideways with 50-60 mph wind
I was just finishing up my evening chores when it hit
The weather stations said something big was coming (again) and to prepare for flash floods.
They were so right! Of course we are on a mesa, but our neighbors in the canyon experienced the roar and thunder of a massive flash flood.
We haven’t pulled the beans yet, nor was the hay down, but still more water is just that more water.
Linda
I’m so busy at the moment I’m having a very hard time getting everything done. We are still having lots of rain. 60% today, 50% tonight, 40% tomorrow and so it goes. Everything is so wet we are not having to do lots of irrigation. Only the corn (it’s hard-dent corn, the kind perfect for corn meal or animal feed) and the alfalfa (if and when we can get it cut and baled and stacked) will need one more irrigation. Then we will be done for the year.
Boy, has this growing season ever zipped by!
Linda
We are getting closer to the pinto bean harvest
The leaves are turning yellow and the bean pods are starting to dry up.
Therefore, Terry has watered them for the last this year.
On my way back from Paonia today I saw leaves starting to change in the trees. And a sure sign of cooler weather ahead ….Chicory!
Linda
The weather stations are saying that we are heading into a dry spell. Boy, is that ever good news!!!
Our wood pile is starting to sprout moss
And the puddles are growing things…
This is good because we need to cut the third cutting of hay in a few more weeks. Two weeks, maybe three at the most. And around the first of September it will be time to harvest the pinto beans.
The other thing the rain has brought is cooler temperatures…. which I think are going to stay. No more 104* temps for us (I don’t think) I’ve also seen two flocks of Canda Geese coming in for the winter. (and the sweet corn)
Another sign of a early fall…the robins have left. That always makes me sad. We still have lots of other birds.
Returning geese and leaving Robins — fall is either here are almost here.
Linda
This This week Sunday Stills is all about clouds. I thought the clouds in this sunset was ever so amazing!
Linda
