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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

While Changing Water

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While changing water we met the goats and their new keepers out for a walk.

They have become Linkin’s goats, she loves them and they love her.  She has named one Gazelle and the other Zebra for very long and complicated reasons.  Every evening and often times throughout the day Linki and the goats go out and play. 

Checking-on-the-Cows

So leaving Grandpa to continue changing water and checking on the cows I went with Mom-Mom and Linkin on their nightly walk. 

Wind

We looked at all the weeds the goats really like to eat, and the ones they don’t like to eat. 

We stopped and ran across the ditches and played follow the leader, Linki is always the leader (I was informed).

Come-on

We looked at a ground bird nest. 

Ground-Bird-Nest

And best of all we went to the ‘special place’ where Linki and goats go to play.

Goat-Hideout

We meet Evan and Zooker out for a ride.

Zooker

Saw the chickens in the yard. Which the goats thought were really cool things to play with.

Summer-and-Hay-012

Just a really nice walk on a windy evening!

In Spite of the Weather the Work Still Goes On

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Best-Swather-Photo

The last field of alfalfa has been cut, and we are waiting for it to dry.  You can see the showers playing around in Olathe in this photo.

(Come on sun, come on out and play!)

We are still irrigating.  We will never NOT be irrigating, right up until harvest.

Watering-Beans

A little sun is peaking through!

Here is what the beans look like right now.  I forgot to get a photo of the corn, but it is about calf high.

Watering-the-pasture

Watering the pasture

Oats-and-Hay

The new seeding of oats and alfalfa is looking good, but needs irrigating.  You can see the big cracks in the ground.  The water will rotate to this spot next.

Grass-Going-to-Seed

Every thing looks lush and wonderful because of the showers, sprinkles and downpours.

Rose-Garden

I shouldn’t complain—it is just hard to get the alfalfa to dry.  Otherwise, I guess I just miss the sun.

Wordless Wednesday (Sort of)

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Rain-Drops

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head!  And the weatherman says more is heading our way.  At least it isn’t snow. 🙂

Let’s Go Irrigate (Part 2 Same Dog)

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Doddle

Fuzzy with his summer haircut, (he is in the middle of a run, that is why the weird pose) goodness! 

He is so funny with his haircut, he doesn’t even look like the same dog.  Still he really does enjoy the freedom of not having burrs and mud in his fur. (And us removing those objects and being brushed.)

I didn’t realize he had put on so much weight.  (Shame on me)! 

It looks like I will have to let him run more often, instead of getting him to hop up on the back of the four-wheeler and giving him a ride.

Rain, Rain Go Away

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Rain-on-the-Hay

Come again some other day!  Sigh.

The hay can’t dry with all this rain!

Please Sun come on out and shine all day!

( I hope I didn’t just jinks us with a drought!  Goodness farming is such a gamble!)

Look What I Got

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Deb from Tyler Farm http://tylerfarmhomestead.blogspot.com

Sent me a delightful box of goodies over the weekend!  There is just so much wonderful stuff here I have to tell you all about it:

Gifts-from-Deb

First is a pair of fingerless, wool, hand-dyed, and hand-knit (by Deb) gloves that are just perfect.  So much about the gloves are special in that Tyler Farm raises the sheep, the wool is then turned into yarn.  Deb then dyes the yarn with natural dyes, and then creates something warm and sumptuous to use and/or wear. (This was my ‘Pay if Forward’ gift).

Second she makes the cutest cards with her amazing photographs of which I got three.  (I should have turned the one card upside right, but just now noticed that it needed to be turned.)

Because she gets horrible migraines she cannot eat chocolate but has found great recipes to take the place of chocolate and she shared her Blond Brownie one with me.

And she included some Zucchini Lungli seeds for me to try here in Colorado.  “Italian Zucchini-plant as you would regular zucchini-these will grow green and long with a large bulb on the end.  They grow great on a fence.  When they are ripe they will turn orange.  Cook them like winter squash.  WOW!  Seeds from Italy, to Main, to a humble little farm in western Colorado!  I am very excited to see if they grow here.

I THAN YOU, Deb! I am amazed at your generosity!

Summer is Officially Here for Us

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 First cutting of hay (and of course we had rain on it the third day of trying to dry).

Summer-and-Hay-006

By the time the hay is cut for the first time, the second cultivation has occurred in the other crops, everything is up and growing, irrigating is in full rotational swing, and the nasty Canada Thistle is about ready to bloom.

We are there, even though the real first day of summer isn’t for three more weeks.

I love the smell of alfalfa drying and turning in to hay…ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Goat Rescue

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Both-Goats

Last Thursday my daughters rescued two female goats; these poor things were so starved every bone showed and they are stunted in their growth. 

Goat-Kiss

So now we have two goats. 

 The Darlings!

Shannon-and-Goat

I contacted Peggy http://hiddenhavenhomestead.blogspot.com/ and asked her a ton of questions, and then we did everything she suggested.   Today, Wednesday, we are seeing marked improvement, they have a cud, their energy level is improving, and their fur is starting to look a little better.

They are so sweet; the grandchildren love to have them with them at all times, but being on a leash isn’t the best for everyone.

White-Goat

Yesterday was spent goat proofing the horse corral, and then we will expand the horse  goat corral into the calf pens so they will have lots of room.  They sleep in the barn, to be safe from the predators, but most of the time they live under the trampoline playing house and video games.