Just before the freeze a rainbow filled the evening sky. I always feel such joy when I see these amazing gifts.
As the sun moved west the rainbow looked like I could find a pot of gold right in our yard.
This is second time this year something so wonderful happened! A rainbow right in our yard!
It was so close I wanted to touch it, but we all know that is impossible!
A month early!
I hated to say good-bye to this! Gosh it was beautiful! I took lots and lots cuttings so I can start over.
I covered everything up, and waited.
(That is a poor sad Colorado Blue Spruce which needs to be cut down this winter.)
And woke to this, this morning. The poor Angel Trumpets looked so sad I couldn’t photograph them. Just know that fall has offically arrived on our farm.
Our cow pasture and the canal banks are full of fall colors
All our dairy and ranching neighbors are chopping corn
and the Maximilian sunflower “Prairie Sunflower” has bloomed. Once it blooms a heavy frost is on its way.
I looked on the Delta, CO weather site and it looks like our night time temperatures are dropping into the late 40’s and early 30’s next week.
I love fall with the warm days and the cool nights. I like that the really hard work is starting to come to an end, and the really good feeling that the cellar is full, the grain bins are full and the hay stacks fat and tall. I like the idea of the holiday’s coming. I vow to not think about the long winter following. But after that dark and dreary time is SPRING. I can hardly wait!
On my way into work the sun was amazingly beautiful!
I couldn’t help but feel joy clear down into my soul.
Good Morning World!
Any day now…we are expecting a killing frost. (The nights are dropping into the 40s Our average frost date is October 21st.)
The signs are there, or am I just mis-reading them? Time will tell.
Fuzzy Doddle McDoodle Dude Brown loves to change water.
And it isn’t just running with the four-wheeler, and it isn’t just running in the ditches, it’s the water.
He just loves the water!
But when you run very, very fast over acres and acres, and You Are Old, like your people…..it just plain wears you out!
Plus a sticker in the paw is a good excuse to rest!
The next set of ducks have now grown up enough to merge with the big ducks. Some of these won’t stay with us, in fact six of these cuties have already been rehomed. The duck area is really only big enough for about fifteen to twenty ducks.
But the kids are expanding the pond this weekend and expanding the pen. All is right with our little duck world.
The grandkids’ Daddy built this really neat treehouse this summer. On the weekend’s the whole family climbs up the limbs and spends the night.
Great memories for everyone.
Whether I’m up or down or in or out or just plain overhead … (Train)
when I look to the sky, I know things will be alright!
Everything is fine over here; nothing to worry about.
The sky last night just reminded me of this song by Train.
I’ve been wanting to take you on another one of the passes not far from where we live. This one is right outside of Ridgeway, Colorado
one hour from our house. It is called Owl Creek pass. Elevation is over 10,000 feet.
We travel through the Saw Tooth Mountains and around to the otherside of said mountains
There we stopped and played in the creek (and ate lunch).
Until we got to the Silver Jack Reservoir.
Some of our irrigation water comes from the Silver Jack, some from the Ridgeway Dam,
but most of the water comes out of Taylor Reservoir above Gunnison into Blue Mesa Dam.
We then headed home over Cimaron Pass into Cimaron, Colorado.
That’s the mountains we were just in, way back there in the back…those little blue peaks.
Life on a Colorado Farm 