The summer flowers are getting lots of attention
Everyone is feeling the need to have a full larder before the heavy frosts hit.
The insects, plus Terry and I, are feeling like a killing freeze is coming
Our night time temperatures are in the 40s now, about a month early.
Of course there are always those who think singing is enough to make it through the winter.
Linda
We have a variety of wildlife that either lives on the farm or in the canyons just below our area
This Desert Big Horn Sheep were re-homed in our area a few years ago
They are known for being shy creatures
But easy food has made them comfortable and maybe even a little bit careless.
Fuzzy is terribly shy when it comes to the camera, but because he is always ‘right there’, he ramdomly gets his photo taken.
We’ve made it to Labor Day! If the weather stays nice this time next week the pinto beans should be in the hopper, so to speak.
Happy Labor Day one and all!
Linda
Sorry for not posting for awhile, but I have been busy, busy, busy. Both at home and at work.
Over the weekend we headed to the plateau to cut firewood…winter is coming on so we need to get a huge pile of wood for heat.
A fire wood cutting permit only costs around $20 for a cord of wood. BUT you are required to purchase 2 permits at once.
You are only allowed to cut dead standing trees—which helps clear out the potential of fuel for a forest fire.
So we took a truck, Evan came and filled his truck, and Misty and her family brought thier truck. Between all of us we were able to get our permits full.
We have several deer that live on our farm and love to eat with the cows and snack on the corn. They are NOT appreciated when they start snacking on the corn! This big fellow seems to be the head of the herd and you can tell he has lived here a long, long time.
Third and last cutting of hay is done for the year,
and the pinto bean harvest has begun.
The only irrigation now is to water up the hay ground so it winters over well.
We should be able to harvest the corn some time in October.
Gosh this growing season has gone fast!
Linda
This week’s Sunday Stills is all about statues or figurines.
I at first thought about heading to the cemetery, then I realized I had a couple of pieces in my yard
My favorite are the mushrooms…the light through the sprinkler added just the right drama.
Linda
The Crazy Sheep Lady had a little contest the other day to gift the lucky winner with two jars of her very own honey.
Not only does The Crazy Sheep Lady have some of the cutest sheep on the blog block, she is also a bee keeper.
So lucky me
A jar for Terry and I and one for Misty and her family!
Our morning waffles tasted very, very good!
And along with the cool jars was a start of a really neat plant which is her favorite houseplant.
The common name of this plant is Apostle Plant because the plant sends out an iris type bloom only after it’sproduced 12 leaves. Each bloom lasts one day and one day only.
What a really neat week this has been!
Linda
Last winter Chuck from http://www.tellicoturnings.com/ saw on my blog that we had damage to our very old lilac tree. He asked if we would send him the damaged wood and he would pay for the postage. We were very glad to do so.
Then on Monday of this week the mail brought to Terry and I this
A beautiful hand-turned pepper-mill!
“Lilac is a beautiful wood and has a very pleasant odor when I work it…. ” Chuck told me by email. “Thanks for sending me the wood… I do appreciate it and enjoy working with it.”
Chuck Ellis
What a wonderful surprise! Thanks, very much, Mr. Ellis!
Linda and Terry
Our alfalfa is now cut. The weatherman says (SAYS) we are to have 7 days or more of good ‘ol sunshine.
Misty told her Dad that she wants to learn to farm. Evan knows how, now it’s her turn.
Practice makes perfect! Driving and cutting with laterals really isn’t as easy as Dad makes it look.
Each row should be straight and square to the field.
Oh, well. Next she can learn to pull the pinto beans.
Linda
Metal in the universal language of Money!
I had to really think what to do for the Sunday Stills Challenge—- should I do something green as in John Deere Green metal and the I had the great idea…money! Everyone understands the metal of money!
Linda
Another huge down pour hit our area yesterday around 5:30 in the evening
The rain was coming in sideways with 50-60 mph wind
I was just finishing up my evening chores when it hit
The weather stations said something big was coming (again) and to prepare for flash floods.
They were so right! Of course we are on a mesa, but our neighbors in the canyon experienced the roar and thunder of a massive flash flood.
We haven’t pulled the beans yet, nor was the hay down, but still more water is just that more water.
Linda
I’m so busy at the moment I’m having a very hard time getting everything done. We are still having lots of rain. 60% today, 50% tonight, 40% tomorrow and so it goes. Everything is so wet we are not having to do lots of irrigation. Only the corn (it’s hard-dent corn, the kind perfect for corn meal or animal feed) and the alfalfa (if and when we can get it cut and baled and stacked) will need one more irrigation. Then we will be done for the year.
Boy, has this growing season ever zipped by!
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
