A Whirlwind Weekend

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Dayphoto

What a weekend….Friday we took off for Buena Vista…we had an appointment there that had been made weeks in advance—

thinking we would take a short cut back home (and a different route) we thought we would go over Independence Pass into Aspen.

Let me tell you right here and now…never ever EVER go over Independence pass in the fall or the spring…they close it in the winter

The bottom of the pass says “If you are longer than so many feet do not attempt this pass”

I guess some people just can’t read.

This kind of driving is NOT FOR ME

The drive was beautiful snowwise, but not drivingwise, and I’m sure Aspen loved the snow.

For me…I was glad to get to DRY ground.

The next day we had to head off again!

Linda

Happy Halloween—The Trees Are Celebrating

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Dayphoto

We are slowly making headway. If the weather holds and nothing breaks down we will make it by the end of next week.

Although, we did have a flat tire yesterday, it was on the big truck. $100 later and we are back on the road. That is so much better than one of the combine tires…think $500 or better.

Here are my trees for the fall

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We are losing leaves every day now. Soon I have to get out there and rake the lawn!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Linda

Corn Harvest 2012

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Dayphoto

Busy, busy! I hope to get myself organized soon…but until then just know

Day one is over.

The wait at the silo’s is intense…four hours yesterday, then unload, back into the field until dark.

Take a load down BEFORE six in the morning…get in line, wait…

You get the picture.

Hope to get around to visit everyone soon!

Linda

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Dayphoto

All the windows are washed, everything is greased and cleaned and the oil changed…

Tomorrow we begin

Linda

The Iron Stone Canal

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Dayphoto

Our irrigation water comes from the Iron Stone Canal. If you remember, the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users turned off all the irrigation water on the 14th of October.

One week and several days later this is what the canal looks like

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It takes several days for the water to finally shrink until there is nothing left…always amazing how long and how far the water travels until it reaches the Gunnison and the Colorado Rivers.

Linda

Windy Tuesday Post on Wednesday

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Dayphoto

We have a leaf removing wind come in this morning right around 5:30

It has blown all day…not hard, but hard enough that we went from lovely leaves on the tree to lovely leaves on the lawn

and every place else

I have winterized the garden hoses and the pump

We are all buttoned up, where it comes to the water.

Here is my 4 O’clock photo — The Day length is now 10 hours and 54 minutes. Sunrise starts at 7:30ish and sets around 6:51 or so in the evening.

Linda

A Short Note on Our Trip

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Dayphoto

One of the things Terry enjoyed on the trip was going through Idaho…and the reason why…

They were doing potatoes

Who could ask for more?!

Linda

A Very Busy Week

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Dayphoto

We finished putting the roof on the house…it has taken us three years.

That is because we do it ourselves with the help of our son-in-law, Kelly.

Although, we bought everything at once so we would match (a very good idea) we took our time to do the job.

The reason why—

we had to do it between the pinto bean harvest and the corn harvest
we are old and need help
Kelly is an Assistant Principal at one of our local high schools and only has one fall break
It isn’t possible to do it in winter (in our opinion)
It isn’t possible to do it in the spring or the summer either, because of the crops
WHAT!?!?! Hire it done?!?!?! (Terry’s words)
A week is long-enough to work on an heavy, exhausting project
I’m sure there are other reasons but these were enough for us

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This the last year…three years and we are done!

First we had to tear off the old roof and shingles and fix any broken boards that may be up there.

Then came the new roof, the felt paper and the metal.

Yippee!

Linda

P.S. I should have painted, but I didn’t think about it until we were done and I could see how badly painting was needed.

I guess I will have to do it next summer….on a metal roof. Sigh!

Wildlife

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dayphoto

As we entered the park we were told “WATCH OUT FOR THE BEARS”!! and then given all sorts of brochures telling us to watch out for the wildlife, do NOT get close to the animals…in the Visitor Center were video’s running of people getting hurt by the wildlife.

So we were pretty open to ‘seeing’ wildlife.

It must have been the wrong time of the year

We saw very little…..

But what we saw were traffic stoppers! If we came upon cars stopped every which way (including tour bus—of which there were MANY), even in the middle of the road we knew some type of animal was up ahead.

We saw…………….

A cool family of Buffalo

An elk

A very thin deer (in Green River)

Another elk (the following two photos and the deer above were taken by Wayne Maxwell)

Taken in the evening on the second day

Lots of crows

A cool little butterfly

Several bear at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana

(Photo by Wayne Maxwell)

Wolves

Then I saw the Three Bears

And I KNOW this is stupid, but I got to take a photo of a magpie!

Those birds are extremely hard to photograph. I happen to think they are beautiful birds.

We don’t have them in our area anymore…the ravens and the crows have pushed them out. They maybe living in other parts of Delta and Montrose County, but I, personally, haven’t seen any for a very long time.

Then, although we know we were NOT suppose to stand or get close to the wildlife…Terry just HAD to go stand by a Moose! These animals are huge!

Tee-hee-hee! HAHAHA! Laugh, snicker, chuckle!

Linda

FINALLY—YELLOWSTONE

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Dayphoto

We made it into Yellowstone Park the next day…excitement abounded in the car…WE WERE GOING TO SEE OLD FAITHFUL!!!

Which we did three different times…the first time was planned.

We stayed in West Yellowstone that evening, then went back into the park. We spent two days touring.

The amazing beauty and the exciting thought that we were walking on top of a giant super-volcano kept us all in awe

People were everywhere

I could NOT imagine how crowded it must be in ‘high’ season—summer time— as we were never without crowds ourselves.

Everything about Yellowstone is dramatic

You can walk or drive your car to just about any outstanding place possible

Those are stairs to an over-look

But I must confess, the one thing that amazed me was man-made…

The Old Faithful Inn

If memory serves me right it was finished building and opened in 1904. The building is MASSIVE and all out of logs and stone.

The second I saw it I wanted to spend at least one night there. We checked to see if there were any openings…If you want to spend a night or so at the Inn you MUST make reservations a YEAR in advance! And the rooms are down right pricey. But for once in a life-time….