We are getting closer to the pinto bean harvest
The leaves are turning yellow and the bean pods are starting to dry up.
Therefore, Terry has watered them for the last this year.
On my way back from Paonia today I saw leaves starting to change in the trees. And a sure sign of cooler weather ahead ….Chicory!
Linda
The weather stations are saying that we are heading into a dry spell. Boy, is that ever good news!!!
Our wood pile is starting to sprout moss
And the puddles are growing things…
This is good because we need to cut the third cutting of hay in a few more weeks. Two weeks, maybe three at the most. And around the first of September it will be time to harvest the pinto beans.
The other thing the rain has brought is cooler temperatures…. which I think are going to stay. No more 104* temps for us (I don’t think) I’ve also seen two flocks of Canda Geese coming in for the winter. (and the sweet corn)
Another sign of a early fall…the robins have left. That always makes me sad. We still have lots of other birds.
Returning geese and leaving Robins — fall is either here are almost here.
Linda
This This week Sunday Stills is all about clouds. I thought the clouds in this sunset was ever so amazing!
Linda
Rain and the sunset
The sun as it was setting made the clouds the most amazing color and on top of that
a Rainbow!!!!
The weeds are super healthy, but so is everything else.
Linda
We are soaked! Through and through.
Over night the rains leave and we wake up to chilly cool morning…nothing like August, nothing.
By 9 or 10 in the morning the humidity has built up it hard to even breathe, let alone work in it. Humidity like this is very unusual for our part of the world.
Around three or so in the afternoon it starts raining.
And raining.
And raining way into the night.
It is raining so much the water can’t dry up or sub away.
We don’t have any hay down, nor are we trying to harvest wheat, barley or rye, or the sweet corn. Some of the grains are harvested and some aren’t. Farming sure is a gamble with the weather and the prices.
The sweet corn guys have four-wheel drive on all their vehicles and keep on keeping on. Sweet corn has a very short window so if the vehicles get stuck they pull them out. The workers keep on working right in the rain. The only time they pull out is when a field is done or we have too much lightening.
Well, onto another day of rain. Wish I could send those of you who need some, some.
Linda
Fall is in the air and it’s not even the end of the first week of August.
It’s been raining here for weeks–we are heading in the the third week of rain.
The flies even seem to think a big freeze might be coming….they stick to us like we are the best thing since furnaces, ugh!
But with all this rain we get
Rainbows!
So I’m out all the time looking and looking to see what I can find in the sky
Two days in a row the sky was just right to see rainbows in the same place. Which I found really cool.
Last night on the way to feed I looked up through the leaves and WOW another one.
The rain is really good for everything, the corn and beans and hay and my yard are looking near perfect. And so are the weeds!
I’m not looking forward to winter, but for now I sure am enjoying the rainbows!
Linda
Introducing “Bingo,” A New Book By Julia King
Fellow blogger, Julia King, of “Our Simple Life” blog has written a new children’s book entitled “Bingo’s Big Adventure” .
Julia finally did what so many of us think about….she wrote and published a book!
This is a delightful book about a real cat adopted from a local no-kill shelter. Bingo isn’t a baby, but a teenager who gets to go live on a farm. The book is full of photos and delightful text. My three grandchildren ages 8, 6, and 2 loved it the first time I read to them. After that I saw the 8 year old reading it to the other two at least three more times. The two-year old carries the book with her everywhere and cries when she has to leave it at my house. Finally I just let it go home with her.
Yesterday her Momma said that this is the book she wants read at nap time, every day!
This is a great book for anyone’s children’s library.
Linda
I’m not sure if you can see this, but it looks like a big cat walked down the ditch bank during the night sometime.
We had a summer storm move through after mid-night
When we went out to change the water we saw these
Whatever it was was heavy, you can tell by the imprint. We don’t think it was a bear, although bear do come on to the place.
On a light note, I had a swarm of these colorful Dragonflies visit my tomatoes
The nice part of working and being outside is you really do get to be close to nature.
Linda
The corn is tasseling out and setting ears now.
This is when we start having trouble with the deer. They love to eat the silks off the corn. As most of you know the pollinating of the corn ear comes from the tassel which is at the top of the corn stalk. The pollen from the tassels falls all over the silk at the end of the corn husk (ear). Each little silk is a direct link to a kernel inside the husk.
If the deer eat the silk the husk dries up and dies. No corn. Not for us or anyone.
It’s hot here…running anywhere between 97-1004*. Humdity builds and builds and builds and then we get
a storm. Sometimes with rain, and sometimes with hail, but the hail has missed us so far.
We were taking Fuzzy down to the river for a swim, but the water is now gone. That’s one the things that happens to the Roubioux in August.
Linda
The pinto beans are starting to close the rows. They are shooting ‘feelers’ and blooming like crazy.
Last evening, after changing water in the corn field, Terry and stopped and checked the beans
Not only are they vineing out and blooming they are setting pods.
In four, maybe five more weeks we will start the bean harvest.
(( sob)) winter is fast approaching.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
