WE HAVE BEGUN!!! —- Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Dayphoto

Terry had the corn checked for moisture and we were DRY!

Out to the field we went, joy mantling our cheeks

On Tuesday’s bright late morning in October (thankfully not January like a couple of years ago) smelling of dry corn stalks, and shelled corn we began filling the truck!

By 1:15 in the afternoon the first load was down to Elevators. By 2:30 p.m. it was back in the field.

Now…hopefully there are no breakdowns, or some sort of crisis, or rain…rain would not be a good thing right; harvest is here!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Meet the Latest Equine to Join the Family—-Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Dayphoto

Lady is a very pretty and extremely smart mule

She has been abused, but now in a good place. Lady and Romeo like each other, which is a goo thing. And Lady likes doing things with Romeo. If she gets to far from him she gets very nervous.

Shannon is wonderful about gaining abused animals trust. In time Romeo and Lady will go hiking and camping.

Lady lets Terry and I pet her and brush her. This coming week she will get her feet trimmed (they are terrible shape)

And after a long patient time—Shannon will ride Lady. Eventually, Lady and Romeo and Shannon and Jason will go camping in the mountains….

Until then it’s lots of pets, brushings, walks, and carrots!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Simple Stuff—Monday, October 23, 2017

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Dayphoto

Terry is down having the corn checked for moisture…we are getting close now. Soon it will be harvest time, and the completion of this years growing season. We aren’t there just yet….but ever so close.

Our days are growing shorter and shorter, November is fast upon us and the time change from Daylight back to regular time.

So far the days are golden and peaceful. The nights are contented with warm sounds of sap popping as the logs burn in the woodstove; two sleeping cats on Terry, and a Beagle next to me, while I work on a needlepoint project.

The dark of the moon has passed; growing now toward the glittering brightness of the full moon. I love night walks in the moonlight.

A wee pause in the growing season. Then the last busy push of corn harvest.

But not today…not just yet.

We tarry a little longer.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

We Took off Friday and Saturday—-Sunday, October 22, 2017

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Dayphoto

We decided to take the weekend off and hang out with our grandchildren

Friday was Blade’s last Cross-Country meet

Where we cheered all the kids running, but ‘specially,

our Grandson.:)

Then Saturday we went to Parachute, Colorado where we watched our

oldest Granddaughter’s two soccer games against Telluride, Colorado

The views on that soccer field are amazing!

We didn’t get to our youngest grand daughters very first basketball game at Coal Ridge, since we couldn’t get there in enough time, but she informed us she went for a lay-up using the right foot and right hand AND she dribbled all the way down the court!

Then after visiting for a couple of hours it was time to head back home. Neither Terry or I like to drive into the sun or after dark so we headed home around four.

We sure had a nice enjoyable break!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

We Left Early This Morning—-Thursday, October 19, 2017

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Dayphoto

Once more I will be gone, early, early, by the time you read this.

Yesterday afternoon Terry and l loaded up the trailer and the truck and headed up to Montrose to sell the metal we have gathering here and there on our farm.

I always find the HUGE equipment up there amazing. There really isn’t anything they can’t pick up and place in some of their piles waiting to go to the recycle of metal places back east.

It’s all pretty cool to watch.

I’ve posted something like this before, this yard really doesn’t change..just the stuff we haul up there.

Also a neat service/business they have…we get rid of the metal, make a little money off it, they sell the metal and make a little more money. Whoever buys the metal melts it all down and changes it back into something useable.

Pretty cool I think.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm.

Linda

By the Time You Read This — Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Dayphoto

By the time you read this Shannon and I will be on our way to the County Dump—-they want to be called the County Landfill now, but you and I know what it really is.

The photo above is borrowed from the internet…it is a gettyimage

You can follow the blue words to see more photos.

Have a gone one,

Linda

The Pulsing Ebb and Flow of Light Filled Wonder—Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Dayphoto

This world is a wonder…really! Every single day — trapped in ordinariness–the little sparks of joy are softly veiled waiting for us to see them

Like the fluttering of a leaf on the wind

Or a ride in a stormy night

Our days move minute by minute, in a deep humming, like webs of music — and our beating hearts

If we just take the time to look, feel and listen —there in the silence, which really isn’t silent

Wonder is there— in the sparkle of the lasting stars, at the moon’s edge, in the black silver night

The glimpses of beauty are there.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

In Fading Glow of Sunlight—-Monday, October 16, 2017

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Dayphoto

My yard is split into rooms/gardens….the first one (as you drive in) is what I call the

corral garden, then moving around the wood pile and the picket fence is the bird station feeding area, next the sidewalk garden (which I am going change next spring–I’m tired of weeding it),

followed by the East Gardens

Then moving to the west of the house is the large sundial garden full of, now frozen, 4 O’clocks,and then hidden between the tile house and the mechanics shed is a little spot of tranquility.

It’s a delightful little place; perfect for silence and solitude, sometimes something hard to come by…but here they are within reach

While I was sitting in the gentle dying of the day, Sunday, I looked up at the remaining leaves of the Apricot tree and saw a little bird-shaped leaf

Tilting my head back a little further I saw a heart-shaped leaf. The dwindling sunlight was the most beautiful apricot shading into orange I had not seen for awhile.

It was so beautiful I used it for my headers yesterday. If you look closely you can see the heart just above the bird…

Quietness, stillness, rest— this space is fill with solitude, gentle softly falling leaves and the silence of Autumn trembling on the edge of winter.

A beautiful place of peace!

From my world to your heart,

Linda

Restless and a Wee Apprehensive—Sunday, October 14, 2017

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Dayphoto

For some reason I seem to be experiencing a vague foreboding. Like a small cloud of some sort of oppression— a hovering chill; trouble looking for somewhere to strike–maybe around the next turn.

I have no idea what it is, or why…but it’s there…riding the winds from the north

Our autumn days wax and wane from warm to cold and back again to repeat as the leaves change and flutter to the ground. There is a tingle to air promising winter is not far off now.

On chill days the wood stove heats the house; two cats and our dog; and a toasting husband. The knots of burning elm tick faintly as they pop and burn warming the air.

And still I feel it…that unsettled feeling…like the night air breathing on my neck. (If I were a cat my fur would be lifted in alarm.)

Oh, well…I continue forward. There is nothing much else to do…we ride out checking the corn, measuring the dryness (16%—when it reaches 15% we can start harvesting)

Sitting around worrying is time wasted.

We ride (skimming) through the farm, on roads which which sometimes look like wild pathways…over the Coyote trails and onto Coyote Hill… the little trip makes me think of all the old, ancient ones who walked here way before me.

For this I give thanks, ask for protection for this land I love, all the living things on it, and for my husband and children and the children of my children, and you, my friends; protection and safety for you, also.

Then I wait…maybe whatever this feeling is will dissipate and go away.

The warmth of a light heart will return— I can travel each day with ease.

I am ready for that time to come!

From my world to your heart,

Linda

A Walk in Tranquility—Thursday, October 12, 2017

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Dayphoto

The storms have left (for a spell, anyway).

The mornings now wake to bright October sun, frost laying heavy in the indigo-blue of the shadows and as thick sparkling shards of light everywhere else.

This is all good for the drying stems of corn,

And the bright yellow/gold ears hanging down toward the ground (harvest will start sometime in November or December for our corn–fingers crossed!)

The corn fields are still visited regularly

Providing food and shelter in the rustling leaves

The night world is busy…ever so busy

The wild creatures fill the space between dark and light

Always on the search for food

Boomie and I and Mindy-cat walk along ever so silently — along the farm roads by the drying corn. Listening to the music of the rustling of the rustling corn leaves and watching for