Terry took a corn sample down to the Elevator this morning to have moisture checked
It came in at 13%
So we began {again}.
Although the sky was an amazing blue, the air was extremely frigid…a sharp, very sharp wind was blowing, but in the combine…it was toasty warm.
But I’m here to tell you, driving the tractor was a tad cold. Two coats and a hoodie and I forgot my gloves…go figure!
🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado Farm,
Linda
Here is the last Halloween kit… A half-witch pillow!
All done now with Halloween kits! 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Finally, after staying steady and ‘keeping after it’
I got the leaves off the yard!
Although I thought the leaf covered lawn was rather pretty, the lack of leaves is much more appealing.
SMILING BIG HERE!! 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I am really not good at sitting watching TV…my hands need to be doing something so my ears can listen. Otherwise, I’m up and down; restless.
I am also not very good at complicated things. So I look for kits to work.
I have one daughter who loves Halloween…I just finished this cute little pillow top and am now working on another one. I will post it when I finish.
Then I have another daughter who loves Christmas. This is also a kit, but I changed it up some….creating two pockets to reflect their dogs
Gypsy who is an Old English Bulldog
This is not a very good photo, but it gives you an idea of what she looks like…she is gray and white.
And Scout who is an Australian Kelpie
This morning I saw a rainbow…on my kitchen floor…I’ll take any type of rainbow wherever I can!
You folks have a good day!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Mindy was an older feral cat when she decided at her mature age of 5 to come live on the farm with us
We allow her to come and go in the house as she wishes
To sleep wherever she wants in the house
Although, she loves me and the food I magically appear before her
But where Boomer is always with me
Her most favorite person in the whole wide world
Is Terry.
I think the feeling is mutual 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
spoke the words slowly, in an ancient tongue come down from the days of the Norsemen. “Say it in English,” I said, seeing from Roger’s face that while he spoke the words, he did not recognize them all. “O Lord, bless the blood and the flesh of this the creature that You gave me,” Jamie said softly. He scooped a pinch of the herbs himself, and rubbed them between thumb and forefinger, in a rain of fragrant dust. “Created by Your hand as You created man, Life given for life. That me and mine may eat with thanks for the gift, That me and mine may give thanks for Your own sacrifice of blood and flesh,
Yesterday morning we woke to fog
The sun peaking through more like candlelight that sunshine
It was beautiful! The earth so much warmer than the air, decorating everything in rich drops of moisture
A wee cloud filling each and every crevis on our farm. Interlacing each building and piece of farm equipment together creating a secret, but trusted spot.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
A storm blew in yesterday…bringing snow to the mountains
and rain to the fields
The setting sun echoed color throughout the clouds
The rain filled the sky—
Then charged over the land slowing down harvest!
We will begin again when everything is dry enough.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We have begun! The last of our crops are now being harvested. Sometime in the next two weeks, with fingers crossed and the creek doesn’t rise,
Our fields of corn will be at the elevator
Then it will be time to put the whole farm to bed and work on fences until the cows come in.
But all that is down the road a spell…for right now we will enjoy
Getting the corn off the shucks and into the truck!
And down to the Elevator. This is an old photo from January 2016….the year the corn would NOT dry down until January. It shows you where we go to deliver our harvest.
Anyway…we are up and running now!
And THAT is a very good thing!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Yesterday was my annual visit to the vet!
And my birthday is NOT 13, that Mom thought it was it’s my 12th birthday!!!
MOM WAS WRONG!!!! I am much younger a whole YEAR younger!!!
YAY!
Boomer
The rains left last night and today
The sky is swimming with leaves upon the very cool breeze
The earth’s beating heart is slowing down, heading into the deep sleep called winter
Every day the sound of the beating heart of the earth is growing softer and softer
As the time of deep sleep nears.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 