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
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
