Train Ride

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Dayphoto

Yesterday, July 27, 2012, I booked a train ride for our youngest grandchild and her family, and Aunt Shannon to go to Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Tallen has been WANTING to ride a train….wanting, wanting, wanting.

So Terry and I thought….heck, why not!?!

We left the train station at 10:23 in the morning.
(This is the old station, but I loved the building and the charm. Too bad they don’t use it anymore.)

The trip took 1 hour and 45 minutes. Terry followed us by car—van–because the trip back was the next day. With irrigation there is no way we could spend the night, and for sure not because our irrigater (for when we are gone) was with us on the trip.

Terry put the water in a spot that must have 12 hours to get wet, off we went.

What a delightful way to travel! And cheap also…only $78 for seven of us, one way.

Blade enjoyed a short rest.

We kept track of Grandpa, but he couldn’t see us. All the windows were black to him.

Still there were hopes he would see us!

Terry said the train moved at a good clip…about 55 m.p.h. through the towns, and 70-75 m.p.h. on the countryside.

He met us as we unloaded.

Then off we went for a short stroll around Glenwood Springs and get a bit to eat for lunch.

After that we drove to the Hanging Lake turn-off for a hike to Hanging Lake.

I’ll tell you more about that in the next post!

Linda

We Live in the Middle of a Corn Field

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Dayphoto

This year, (because we do rotational planting —-meaning all crops are rotated from one field to the next keeping disease and bug problems down as much as possible) the corn all happened to be planted around the house and the buildings.

The heat inside of a corn field is hot and humid, corn just loves a hot day, add in the water to keep the corn growing and you have a huge humidifier!

Breezes don’t make it inside this box of heat and moisture unless we have a wind…I relish wind now…

On the flip side I love smelling the corn, so rich and full and alive. Sounds carry from far away so it seems the train (6 miles away) is right down the field. The dogs can’t figure out if they should bark or not. They mostly don’t unless someone is right at the yard, so the nighttime dog phone has rather stopped.

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And we get an up close and personal daily report on how the corn is doing, just be looking out the window or working in the yard.

Harvest for sweet corn is on….you should be seeing Olathe Sweet Sweet Corn or Mountain Sweet Sweet Corn in your market soon. If you do just know that the corn was grown somewhere near our farm!

(No we don’t grow sweet corn, we grow corn that used for feed or to be made into corn meal. Our season of growing lasts much longer than sweet corn.)

Linda

July 23, 2012

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Dayphoto

Last weekend was Delta’s annual celebration—Deltarado Days. It was also Terry’s 50th class reunion

After the parade in the morning was the

170% of the tractor’s weight! That little 530 John Deere weighs 5,300 pounds.

It was so miserably hot it was hard to enjoy this event. Although, I had an umbrella it still felt like a cooked hot dog when we finally left.

Linda

Sunday Stills — In the Air

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Dayphoto

I just had to share these wonderful photo from blog friends…they really are in the air, just not taken by me!

The first is from John and Cindy North….I do not think I have ever seen

Four rainbows at ONCE!

How amazingly cool is that!

Then Sara from Kentucky sent me THIS

A cool rainbow spanning one whole side of her farm!

Then Tom sent me over a photo a friend of his took here in Colorado. They live in Steamboat Springs, and are great friends of Tom. Tom as since moved to the lower part of our state. Tom’s friend Erin is took this with her cell phone.

A double rainbow spanning the complete mountain town of Steamboat Springs.

Thank you everyone for these wonderful and amazing rainbows!

No one can have enough rainbows in their lives!

For more Sunday Stills go here!

Linda

In My Spare Time

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Dayphoto

In my spare time I go help our oldest daughter with her volunteer job. We walk the dogs at the City Pound/CAWS.

We go Tuesday and Friday, it takes some time. That’s okay. We enjoy the dogs and they enjoy us. We walk them to the dog park and then let them run and run and run!

So much fun!

If you would like a wonderful dog…these dogs are perfect. They are all house broke, past the puppy stage and socialized.

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Of course there are other dogs there than just these three — I just wanted to give you an idea of great dogs for a small price.

Linda

A Sign of Hope

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Dayphoto

This has been a year of lots of ‘stuff ‘…

Stuff we have had to deal with…the fire, the fences, lack of rain, way too hot, not enough irrigation water, loved ones passing on over to the other side…you know all those things that make up every day living, but also sort of wear you down.

But last evening…across the pinto bean field and the corn field right over our house

This rainbow appeared.

We were not home at the time, but our son-in-law happened to see this sign from the Heavens

And emailed it over to us!

I am delighted!

It spans our farm from the middle to the end—-an amazing gift of

HOPE!

Linda

Sunday Stills — Pick Two Previous Challenges

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Dayphoto

My first challenge pick was trucks…

I was really lucky. While we were having Fuzzy’s birthday party at the lake this came by

Delta has never had an ice cream truck until this year.

And for my second challenge, this one

I love the reflection on the water!

Have a nice Sunday, everyone!

Linda

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Dayphoto

We are having 20% chance of rain right now…which is rather nice actually. It isn’t raining here (right here on the farm), but it is raining around us in the mountains. We get to watch the clouds play across the sky then settle down on one of the hillsides and let down a little thirst quenching shower. What it brings to us is the cooling of the day…we’ve been hitting anywhere from 90* to 100*.

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I have been looking for rainbows, but there aren’t many yet. I keep looking; they are bound to appear since there IS rain around.

Linda

California Poppies in Colorado

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dayphoto

I have a wonderful blog friend from California. She is a farmer, lives on the family farm that’s been in the family for years and years, just retired from the field of education, shows birds—chickens, pigeons, and is just plain delightful.

She has been reading me and I have been reading her for some time now. So when the day from H@## arrived and then the very next day we had a repeat of day one…she decided that Terry and I needed some hope.

A few days later a large bundle of asparagus (straight from her farm) and a huge bag of California Poppy seeds arrived in the mail.

I immediately took the seeds out to the burn area and sprinkled them around, patting them into the soil, and prayed for rain. Sadly those seeds didn’t make it.

But… fearing that those little seeds might not make it…I planted some of the seeds in my yard.

They are beautiful!

And I love them!

I hope they reseed themselves for years and years and more years to come.

A little bit of California right here in Colorado.

I Thank You so much, Jan!

Linda

After the Rain

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Dayphoto

The weatherman is saying that our rain is leaving…which is okay. It’s time to cut the second cutting of alfalfa. Actually, Terry is out there right now cutting the alfalfa so we really don’t need rain for about a week or so.

Still the rain we had was lovely, delightful, and ever so refreshing

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Hope our rain makes it to those of you who need it!

Linda