Complete with power outages
And 8 inches of snow
The lilac received more damage
And will have to be pruned some more.
When snow collects on electric lines and it starts to dance, that’s when the power goes out
Anyway
Is sure is beautiful. Today it is cold 23* with the wind blowing. I wonder where the robins and the bluebirds are?
Linda
Since Saturday was beautiful, not cold, 41* and not snowing, we decided now was the time to trim up the 90 year old lilac.
We removed all the winter damaged branches, all the suckers
Thereby, giving a new shape to a very old tree
Lilacs are really bushes, but Terry’s grandfather trimmed this into a tree.
I took some of the trimmed branches and put them into warm water in the house.
I want to do this as Far Side, Own a Morgan, and others suggested it to see if I can get some to grow roots.
If I can I will plant a few more bushes in the yard along the canal bank.
I will tell you about the canal bank in another post.
Monkey, the cat, liked to help me. Sam and Fuzzy were way too busy to spend time picking up branches.
It is snowing here as I write this, big wet flakes. It’s beautiful. The flakes really aren’t sticking and even if they do the time of 20* weather is over. The days are growing longer and longer. I saw two robins yesterday. I consider this a spring snow shower, bringing moisture to the high country from which we get our water.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Linda
Second (you head down the road to the next field or pasture)
Third (if you are in a car you hope you are going INTO the herd, not with it)
The cows that contain “Friend” leave our area heading for thier winter ranch/headquarters.
It is there they will calve out. I saw four bluebirds the other day. And the geese are slowly leaving our area.
Spring is coming. I can feel it in my bones.
Linda
Tallen was two on Monday so we all went to the hot springs at Ouray, Colorado and went dipping.
Tallen (getting into the pool with Da-Da) loves the water. She had a delightful time and so did we.
Linda
I just love watching these birds land and take off. They love the sweet corn fields the best. And at night, if you go outside, and stand still and listen you can hear them rustling around in the leaves.
Linda
Sometimes I am just amazed at the beauty this world has to offer us.
We are still experiencing clouds and grey skies, but the sunsets are just wonderful!
And the days are growing longer…Spring is coming. I just know it is!
Linda
Our farm is rented in February to a rancher that likes to ‘calf- out’ on our land. The ‘girls’ get to have lots of neat things to eat the month of their due date: corn, hay, bean straw, weeds and weeds and more weeds and last year’s cattails (which are really yummy).
They do lots of good (about 82 head of moms-to-be) and our tiny group add much needed fertilizer onto the farming ground, and help munch down all the weeds and cattails and prune the sage and Chico brush (just the tips are a delicious treat), getting the farm ready for spring work.
In return the cows get a fairly safe place to have their calves. Randomly we (and the cows) will have a tussle with the coyotes and the calves always loose. Coyotes are sneaky killers waiting for the cow to be in labor and for the calf to be ‘coming out’. Cows can’t see their backside so therefore can’t protect themselves from an attack from either wild dogs or coyotes. As the calf emerges the coyotes drag the baby from the mom and immediately kill and eat it. Sometimes they will take on the mom too. And NO they DO NOT HAVE TO BE HUNGRY TO DO THIS…they just have to want too.
So we all start patrolling the farm, the ranch guys come by, and we go out. It’s important that ‘critters’ stay away….far away…from the maternity ward!
Yes, we have wild dogs….thanks to those PEOPLE who just don’t want a dog anymore and take it to the country hoping it will survive. Most of the time the dogs either—-die, get ran over, or join with the other wild dogs that run the drain ditches and the canyons looking for food. Sometimes we country folk can catch the dogs (like I got Fuzzy) and can make them ours, but most of the time that doesn’t happen.
These animals always hang close to farms BECAUSE THEY WERE ONCE RAISED IN A FAMILY OF PEOPLE and kill livestock for fun/pleasure and Food.
Raising animals and being a good protector of those in your care is a full-time job. I would hate to meet someone who lived on our farm in the bye-and-bye and have them say I didn’t do a very good job. Makes me sad to even think that could happen.
So anyway, the girls are back. These are the great-great-great granddaughters of cows that have been coming to our maternity ward for years and years.
It’s always good to see them again.
Linda
I never win, anything, ever!
So this was a really neat surprise ! http://edprescott.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/giveaway-week-2/
Ed, from Thoughts From the Road http://edprescott.wordpress.com/
And I got a couple of black and white photos in card formate.
The whole package brighten my day!
Linda
23 days until March. I’m into the count down!
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
