We had to take a trip to here….
We just got home and the Broncos are playing. I will return to this post in the near future!
A Bronco fan,
Linda
Sunday, October 27, 2013 The Gunnison Tunnel and Diversion Dam
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Category Archives: Life on a Colorado Farm
Thursday, October 24, 2013
PAPER WORK IS DONE!!!
I sat at the computer most of the day…I had to tell myself that I needed to treat this project just as if I were at work.
By the end of the day, around 3:30, I was done!
YIPPEE!
It felt good to be done and to stand up and move around and NOT THINK of paper work!
I had nice help. They wouldn’t have been allowed to help me when I worked out 🙂
Their patience and purring made the job go much faster 🙂
Today I’m tackling the house. There is so much I need to get done in the next few days so I’m don’t have it hanging over my head once we start the corn.
Off now to see if I can make the dust fly and the floors and windows shine.
Your friend,
Linda
October 23, 2013
Not a lot happening here. I got the trucks cleaned and ready to go, plus our car and Terry’s pickup. I thought if I was cleaning the everyday vehicles I might as well get the grain truck and the Dodge spruced up and ready for work.
After a long day I can say they are done!
Today Terry will take a corn sample down to see the moisture content. Some of the guys have started combining…the ones that store their corn and sell it later. I drove by the Elevator and saw a semi unloading so there are those that are dry enough to begin. I don’t think he really wants to start until November 1st, but (between you and me) if the corn is ready he will have a hard time waiting. 🙂 🙂
Today I have want to tackle my office and all the paperwork sitting there waiting for me to do something about it. What a drag, but it has to be done so I had better get to moving on it.
I hope your day is a good one,
Your western Colorado farm friend,
Linda
Tuesday October 22, 2013
I thought it would be fun to show you how tiny our City Hall used to be. ( The photos are on file at the Delta County Museum and Historical Society or with the City of Delta)
Delta City Hall – from 1910 to 1962 – 3rd Street (where museum courtyard is today photo provided by Jim Wetzel, Curator)
Below is the City Hall now….amazing how fast a town can grow from the above little office to what is needed today.
When I was a child what is now City Hall was a bank. I think it was called The Bank and Trust or something of that nature. I can remember going in there and putting money in my savings account.
I also remember how stunned I was that I didn’t get to have the exact money I took in back out…just a paper book with the amount written on a little square of how much I had with the bank.
This is the museum court yard today. (Where the original City Hall stood)
If you ever get a chance to stop by the bell collection is extremely nice, and the original log cabin is fascinating. (I think I could be a pioneer, I really do.)
Our weather is very nice right now. I got my yard put to bed and all the weeds pulled for the year. Today I plan on cleaning the trucks, Terry’s pick-up and my car. Then I will be taking Linki to soccer practice in the afternoon.
I hope this weather stays for some time, having this nice weather is really a gift for corn harvest.
No, we haven’t started corn harvest yet, maybe November 1st. Terry will take some corn down and have it tested that day to see. Everyone is gearing up, but the corn is still high moisture so we wait.
I hope everyone has a good day!
Your Friend,
Linda
Monday, October 21, 2013
Today is my little brother’s birthday. Of course he isn’t my ‘little’ brother anymore, standing way taller than I do. 🙂
He looks rather startled by the flash, don’t you think.
There are only the two of us…he and I.
Happy Birthday, Dan!
Linda
Wednesday October 16, 2013
You are looking at the sunlight on in the Roubidoux Canyon, just down the road from our farm.
Well, TODAY is the DAY! I’m off here in just a short while to talk to the Social Security lady to see if I can get Medicare!!!
I never dreamed the day would come when I would be excited about Medicare, but I am. Medicare doesn’t pay for everything or all things so a person still has to have a supplemental insurance. That will be my next shopping trip….if all goes well today.
I think I am a confused as the next person on just what and how Obamacare (The Affordable Healthcare Act) is going to effect Terry and I, but for right now….today…I will be excited and pleased if I can qualify for Medicare!
Talk to you in the morning!
Your aging (but not unhappy about it) friend,
Linda
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
We have snow about 1 hour away — all around us.
We get glimpses of the snow off and on as the clouds move here and there on Grand Mesa. The weather man says we are to have more rain starting this evening around 6 and then changing to a snow/rain mix after mid-night.
We sure have been having lots of moisture since July. Although, I am NOT complaining we most assuredly need the snow pack to fill the reservoirs in the mountains… all this rain is wrecking havoc on the crops and the harvesting of the crops.
Some of you noticed the semi-coming toward us as we drove along I-80….
This was a photo of a wrecker pulling a semi truck into the shop. It did so look like a truck coming right at us I had to take a photo. 🙂
This is a semi-load of Honey bees. They were being transported from somewhere in Nebraska to somewhere else. The lettering on the truck said they were from South Dakota.
This is one HUGE pile of sugar beets along the way. The sugar beets were mainly in eastern Colorado and the corner of Nebraska. The factory behind the pile is defunct now. We were told that most of the old factories are being torn down. I suppose this one will be knocked down and cleaned up sometime in the near future.
This is the Great Western Sugar factory those beets are heading here. There is also an active beet factory in eastern Colorado and other places in the corner of Wyoming and western Nebraska. I’m not sure where they all are located.
We only saw one wreck and that was in a town and not a bad one, which was good. And the remains of what must have been a horrible train wreck.
Not seeing wrecks is always a very good thing.
Today Terry is working on the bean combine, putting it to bed for the year and the dogs and I are going out to pick up siphon tubes.
They all have to be picked up before he can start the corn harvest. (You can see the wind in the corn…sigh) I want to get them done, before the clouds set down any more.
I took this last night…the colors were just outstanding. Sometimes I think Autumn is a Dr. Seuss world so brilliant and complete yet simple and divine all rolled together.
Have a good one everyone!
Your friend,
Linda
Monday, October 14, 2013
I am so disappointed!!!! We had a stunning rainbow last night right in our front corn field.
I took the photos —PERFECT!
I down loaded them and LOST THEM…sob! sob!
Only this pale other end survived…
I guess this is better than nothing. But if you could have seen the other….
WOW!
After a few couple more stops we headed back.
Our trip back was fast…we decided that we would just hit the interstate and head home as fast as we could go.
On thing about the interstate — it’s boring! Miles and miles of the above.
Since Terry worked as a Line Foreman for our REA for 37 years we always look at electric poles, sub stations, transfer stations, you name it…stuff no one else sees but really does exists.
These wires are created special for areas that the wind whips through so power isn’t lost. Or at least they hope it isn’t lost.
I-80 is an major road from one coast to the other…therefore, we met lots and lots of semi’s.
We spent the night in Kearney, Nebraska. One thing about about Nebraska there is lots, and lots of history in this state.
It was good to see Denver again!
When we started out of Denver we could see storms ahead of us.
It was raining and snowing up to the tunnel and then at the tunnel the sun was shining (go figure)
The other side of the tunnel was wet and nasty.
Glenwood Canyon was still beautiful but wet.
Boy, was it nice to get home again.
Your friend in Colorado,
Linda
Sunday, October 13, 2013
We took a flying trip to Norfolk, Nebraska as Terry needed some combine parts and a bracket for the suitcase weights for one of the tractors. Since we were both ready for a short trip off we went.
The desert between us and Grand Junction is extremely green. ( You can see Wild Horse Mesa in the background — it is the last green bowl shaped mesa just before the blue sharp lines of Grand Mesa)
We have had and are still having lots and lots of rain. Very nice for making the world fresh and lovely.
We got to Grand Junction as morning was coming into full-light. This is a very quick photo of the Book-cliffs which surround Grand Junction on one side.
Glenwood Canyon was beautiful waking up to a day of full-speed-ahead traffic.
Driving through the Johnson side of the Eisenhower tunnel.
We live 5 hours from Denver. At this point we are about two hours away. This a horrible mess come ski-season. The traffic slows to a 30 m.p.h. or LESS crawl on Sunday afternoon as people try to come back from a weekend of skiing.
Taking the back roads and staying off the Inter State
This CAN BE a bleak trip, but we enjoy the farms and ranches.
It was sugar beet harvest
And soybean and
corn harvest.
All the way from Colorado to Norfolk.
We cheered and clapped and gave everyone two thumbs up for being able to get their crops in.
That night we stayed in Ogalla, Nebraska —
Getting up early the next morning we we found lots of salvage yards
along our route.
Just what we were looking for!
Continued tomorrow….
Your friend on a California Mesa Farm,
Linda
Sunday, October 6, 2013
“Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden … it is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It happened!
The cold has descended! Killing everything. Next week I will start digging my tropical plants and storing them for the winter. I have so many tubers of Cannas I really don’t know what I’m going to do with them, but I guess I will figure it out.
Most of everything I will leave as seed heads for the birds, it helps them and it helps my pocket book.
The trees and bushes should really start to color up now. It always takes a good hard freeze to start to see color on them.
In three weeks we hope to start the corn harvest.
We are moving marching forward to winter, a steady step-by-step now.
Taking one day at a time, your friend,
Linda
