Gunnison River is spreading its girth from bank to bank. The river’s power is being driven by a fresh melt of snow, brought on by several days of above-average temperatures followed by a couple of days of rainfall.
The river’s power is being driven by a fresh melt of snow, brought on by several days of above-average temperatures followed by a couple days of sporadic rainfall in the region.
The 20 acres of Wildlife under water
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHANNON!
Our daughter Kimberly works for CDOT. In putting together a snow plow rodeo Kimberly asked if her Dad could come drive one of the snow plows. Terry really found the obstacle course a great challenge and fun.
Of course the hail stones were NOTHING to compare with the ones in Weld County, but they can do damage.
A nasty skunk got into the hen house last night and killed all but one of my wonderful hens! I am so upset! The hen is so upset!
I found where the skunk got in; he/she must have had to dig most of the night to enjoy this delicious meal of my hens!
Needless to say, we are setting live traps and the skunk, or skunks will have a new adventure in skunk heaven soon.
This is a necessity as we have 30 baby girl chicks coming Thursday, May 29th, and I don’t
want to lose them to wild life.
We farm about 5 miles from the heart of our progressive little town, Delta. We are both ‘natives’ to the Delta community, Terry being raised by a second generation Dairyman, and I by a second generation Orchardist/and Business owner.
Delta has grown over the years to the point we now have a WAL-MART! This has brought an assortment of mixed blessings, and huge tax growth for the city.
The sun sets around 8:30 in May, so the days are long. Work isn’t just 8-5, but starts around 5:30 in the morning and ends after the sun goes down.
The gated pipe system can move water through the field with a small amount of effort on the part of the farmer. Just open the gate!
Blade and Linkin like to help ‘set water’ when we are watering the gated pipe fields. Of course, they have a bit of trouble understanding just how ‘wide’ to open the gates, but they are catching on. Open the gates two fingers wide of Grandpa’s, or four fingers wide of theirs.
This is the same ditch I just wrote about in Waiting for Water.
Siphon tubes are one of the oldest farm tools still in use. They have been lifting water from irrigation ditches and putting water into waiting furrows for thousands of years.
Once this field gets wet, then the water will be moved. Probably to one of the fields with gated pipe.
