We’ve been cleaning out all the ditches. Terry has this cool tool that he made which cuts our time down in half. A person just puts the tool in the ditch and the water pushes it along pushing the sand and dirt in front of it.
We still have to scrape the sides and shovel some of the ditches, but boy does this make life easier!
Happy Tuesday everyone!
Linda
We finished! The last load of the beans left the field at 6:00 p.m. heading to the Beanery. The truck will get in line. By 6:30 the next morning we will be there to drive the truck through the unloading area. We are about 7th in line so by noon or 2:00 depending on if something doesn’t break down the 2011 Pinto Bean Harvest will be over for the year!
Then in about two to three weeks (if the weather holds and the moisture level drops) we will start combining corn!
Whew!
This is what we work for…Harvest!
Have a nice Sunday everyone!
Linda
I thank everyone who left me comments on the blog and I apologize for not responding to each comment. It isn’t because I didn’t want to. Last week I slipped on the very wet, muddy ditch bank and dislocated a rib on my breast bone. I am getting better every day, but still have to use caution with my left arm. The worst part is the pain whenever I take a breath, but that too is starting to ease.
The rains have finally left…
Leaving us will lots of sunshine and warm days with cool nights. True fall is upon us.
If everything goes as planned we hope to be able to start the pinto bean harvest soon.
Linda
Now if the rain that keep hovering around here will just take its little self on down to Texas and leave us a couple of months of sunshine that would be good.
Please everyone find it in your hearts to pray for the land — that rain comes to Texas and other parts of our drought stricken country. Water is the life force of good…pray for water to heal the land and bring life back to the south.
Linda
We just got back from a small trip to Greeley where we were able to visit with Terry’s family.
The trip over was good accept for hitting Silverthorne and all of the weekend traffic heading back into the Denver area.
Usually, on a good day, from the tunnel you can get into Denver in an hour
But when there is weekend ‘returning’ traffic that changes….stop and go, stop and go is the norm.
So for a hour drive, we were able to make it in 2 hours and 28 minutes.
We thought about going over Loveland Pass, but you would still have the problem of entering horrible slow traffic.
I saw things along the mountainside that I would have never seen going 75 miles an hour.
Now…back to work, we are pulling beans so they can dry. Then in about a week (if the weather holds) we will combine.
Happy Sunday everyone!
Linda
We are waking up to cooler and cooler morning, although the day does warm up nicely….around 88*.
The birds are going…first the robins, several weeks ago, then the Meadowlarks, on August 31st, as I was watching the barn swallows all seemed to gather together and fly away. It was really cool to see and watch.
The whole thing made me a little sad, though.
Yesterday afternoon a huge flock of geese came honking back, a welcome site after losing all the summer birds.
We still have hummers, any day now I expect to see them gone. It will be just like the robins….they will leave, I will miss seeing them and realize they have left.
On the upside of losing summer the cottonwoods are starting to color up here and there, just a limb or so, but if you look you can see the yellow starting to appear.
The rabbit brush is blooming and the golden rod. If you look at my yard it still looks like summer, but I know better. I know better.
Of course, Wal-Mart has switched over to ‘Back to School’ and I noticed yesterday that that was going by the way side and Halloween and Thanksgiving coming in.
I guess I had better get my head around it….Fall is here.
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Linda
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Many years ago I used to walk all the way down the lane to the bus stop, the family dogs with me, to wait for the kids to get off the bus and tell me about thier day at school.
Who would have thought that many years later I would get the same opportunity, only this time I would ride the four-wheeler down, with two dogs amd the littlest grandchild? We wait at the end of the lane, tossing pebbles in the irrigation ditch, looking for bugs, and finding pretty stones until the bus comes.
Then a fast trip down the little dirt road to an after school snack, fun for Grammy conversation, a little down-time until 5:00 p.m. Then its homework time and usually Dad is home to get the kids.
I like the fact that this history did repeat itself.
Linda
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