Tallen was staying with us the other day and found
My favorite doll stored away in my closet
She also found Shannon’s favorite doll. Having a doll as big as you are is really sort of neat.
Tally played with them for a little while, but got side-tracked when she discovered Grandpa’s toy tractors.
Geeze, having the house tore up for new carpet is really fun…there are toys everywhere.
Linda
Beats me how we can go from a very long winter summer of wind and rain, more wind and rain, to suddenly heat so high and for weeks at a time. It was very good for harvest—still is. But the plateau is suffering
Its hunting season—all those early seasons like black powder with the first big rifle deer season starting in October.
The plateau has lots of stands of pine beetle killed trees and many patches of aspen killed by sudden aspen die off.
Sure is a scary time.
If you go hunting, or camping, or just hiking….and start a fire for your food, PLEASE take the time to put it out properly.
Linda
Mom has been really, really, really, —-did I say REALLY busy —so she asked me to blog for her today.
Lots of stuff has been happening here, first off after 37 years my people are finally getting a new carpet. Mom is really excited because she is having the WHOLE house carpeted at once. It’s been a little stressful for Dad and my brother Evan as they have had to move most of the furniture, but Mom helped when she wasn’t at work.
It’s a nice carpet, we animals can still walk on it and it won’t show dirt, my one requirement if they would have asked me, but they didn’t.
They are still working on the upstairs, but I never go upstairs anymore, it’s just too hard to climb stairs.
Mom said work has been way over-whelming with all the grant reports, the coal conference, the building maintence and all the regular paperwork, something about not enough days and hours in the days to get everything done. I really don’t understand, but that’s what I heard her telling Dad just this morning as she left for Paonia, again.
Anyway… that’s Mom’s big news but I have even bigger news
Not only does Zooker and
Bella come up all the time….so does
HANK!!!!
Hank is my 1st favorite sister’s new dog. He was just like me a throw away!
My 2nd favorite sister found Hank and brought him to Misty. She said she couldn’t keep another dog.
Dad agreed!
And so did Mom and Misty.
So Hank has come to live at Misty’s. Which is good. I still miss Checkers
But it is really good to go down to Misty’s and have a buddy to see. Hank comes up to see me also and I even share my bones with him.
Fuzzy
As I left for work (Paonia) at 6:30 this morning I was struck by the beauty of the morning and the low lying full moon
It had been raining for two days so the air had a fresh feel about it. It felt like a perfect day.
And it has turned out to be one. I made it to and from without a hitch, not even having to stop for the road construction. The 2010 Coal Conference we were hosting turned out even better than anyone could have imagined; with 100 people in attendance.
The morning moon started my day out just right so I had to share it with you!
Linda
Well, now we have another type of reintroduced wildlife on our farm and in our farming area–first we have the kit fox, and we do not have any more pheasants or quail, now we have the Lynx.
(This is not my photo but the DOWs)
And of course they are not staying on the plateau and have moved down to the farmland.
Our kitty, Sammy-Sam, had a horrible run in with one of the Lynx. Yes, we know it was a Lynx. Sammy is starting to recover but what a mess he was for some time.
I am so not for these recovery programs…If the wild animal wasn’t hungry and wouldn’t migrate to find food, then okay. But they do migrate and they do so when they are hungry!!!!
The DOW guy that manages the Fat Man’s Misery area said they brought in several and put them in the Roubideau (which Fat Man’s is part of), but the cats have not been seen in the area for several weeks now. OF COURSE NOT THEY ARE ON THE FARMS…there are chickens, cats, mice, lots of smaller animals to eat! Shish! A Golden Corral is ever so much easier to eat from then some place where you have to really HUNT for food!!!!!
We have let them know that we have had the cat in our yard, in our tree, and saved our kitty from it, so let’s see if they come to take it someplace else. I hope it moves on, but really I hope it goes back to the canyon or better yet to the Plateau!
(I took this at Cabelas in Grand Junction)
I know now what I saw for sure was a wolverine….
For I saw one again – on the other side of our field. (Of course they are not real until a DOW person confirms it). The second I fill out the form for the DOW to come out and see if what I saw is real, the animal will move on and I will look like a ‘faker’ (a person who makes up stuff). —So some of the neighbors are on the lookout also. If there are at least two or three of us who see these animals then it will be reason to call in the DOW.
I sure am wondering why they are here….possibly too many people have moved into their area and game is hard to come by. Maybe this one is sick (?)
Anyway, I don’t know, but I am on the look out.
Linda
Those that have raised onions and potatoes are now starting thier harvesting projects. The last thing to be harvested will be the hard-dent corn. This is the corn used for cooking (corn meal) and critter feed.
So far the weather is holding…we got very close to killing frosts, but we are now heating back up. Which is good, if you are trying to get produce in. Killing freezes tend to kill what you are trying to harvest.
The pick’n corn is at the hard-dent stage. Now we wait until all the moisture leaves the ear. If shelling corn is harvested wet it will mold. Last year we hauled our first load to the Elevator on October 20th. One month away.
Of course that doesn’t mean there isn’t lots still going on, just that we have reached our goal.
Linda
“Oh, Dear, I must not be late!”
Even the spiders’ are feeling the need to prepare
I really don’t much care for the builder of the web, but I do so like to look upon thier works of art.
Linda
Traffic on our country roads is now at it’s highest point
If it isn’t an ensilage truck, it’s a truck hauling, onions, or potatoes, or pinto beans
The weather is perfect…..warm days (high 80s) and cool nights (low 40s)
Without even a HINT of a rain storm
Or the ever-lasting wind.
As I write this all these cute little beauties are sorted and sacked and stacked ready for sale.
Nothing left but the bean straw. (Which, by-the-way, cows love to eat!)
Linda
A rainbow landed in our yard….
Which was one of the coolest things I think I have ever seen
Since the grandchildren were up…I had Blade stand in the rainbow
Of course Talli wanted to too.
I didn’t have a lens that could capture it all
So this has to do.
But what a gift!
Linda
It’s raining here….again!
The only farmers working are the sweet corn harvesters and the farmers/ranchers with ensilage or chop’n corn. These guys must think a big freeze is coming, because most times farmers don’t want to work in mud. But they have tractors pulling the trucks out when they get stuck. The other thing they don’t like is to have half thier field out on the highway or roadways.
We are stopped until it drys out. Pinto Beans Can Not be harvested in mud. Rain smashes the pod down into the ground so the combine isn’t able to pick up the vines and thrash out the beans.
So we wait.
I did see a patch of blue sky last night so hopfully by this weekend we can begin again.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 