The man who owns the Discovery channel bought up several acres of land (300 or so) in a canyon 1.5 hours from our house.
Once he bought the land he decided to create a resort and to showcase his car collection.
http://www.gatewaycanyons.com/experience.php
There you can see lots of restored cars, plus this concept car that he bought for $3.24 million!
Off we go to fix fence, down the hill and around the whole place. There is a hole somewhere, for the electric fencer isn’t working.
Although, these look like something that ‘should go to the scrape pile’, they are projects waiting to happen!
The two grain trucks are Terry’s Dad’s. They gradually became Terry’s over the years, the red one given as a gift from Jack to Terry for a birthday present; the green one given to Terry has an inheritance after Jack’s passing.
The hotrod was the first truck Terry bought ever so long ago and was the first truck I got to ride in while we were “court’n”. He is sprucing it up to go faster, look sharper, ……zoom!
Now that Terry is retired (since May of this year) those old cars and trucks he has been collecting can now –at least- move to the front as possible winter filling projects.
The other tag has come from the tile lady @ http://daughterm.blogspot.com/
So, I am supposed to list 7 random or weird facts about myself and then pass it on (This is harder than you might think)
1. I have written two books on people in my Genealogy line. (I probably will never publish them, but they were wonderful to research and write.) One is set in 1600 America and the other one about my Grandfather Thomas and my youth.)
2. I love eating apples for breakfast, especially caramel apples
3. My favorite bird is a chicken, and my favorite mammals are dogs and cats
4. I used to tie black plastic from the ensilage pits onto my arms and legs, stand in the wind and make believe I was a kite
5. My favorite book in the entire world is Hanta Yo; I have read it 18 times. I just finished the eighteenth time last month.
6. My favorite colors are Light blue and Lavender, which becomes Periwinkle when I can find it.
7. When I was thirteen my parents moved us to 100 acre fruit orchard
The trees are on the route I take to work everyday. Hope you enjoy!
My Six Quirks:
1. I love— water on newly worked ground, the fall, spring, being a farmer (wife)
2. I embarrass –my husband, because I like to give him a big hug or kiss even in public
3. I am a recovering—politician. I ran and won a seat on the school board for six years. Life is real now!
4. I love — Dr. Pepper. My mother’s family is from Texas, every year we traveled to Texas in June for a month long visit. I, personally, could NOT wait until we hit the border and I could finally have a Dr. Pepper! P.S. I think it tasted better then, but I still drink it now.
5. I carry – a schoolbag full of “toil”, just like students, every day from work.
6. I cried — when my best friend and sister died in November, my beloved Grandmother passed in March the very next year, then my Daddy left this earth in September of that same year, and my Dear Momma joined him 10 months later. It was the hardest time of my life.
Oh the list goes on and on…
Now that I have spilled my guts, here are the rules:
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The first eggs have started to appear; it sure was exciting to go to the chicken house, after work yesterday, and find these little eggs.
They were laid everywhere, under the roost, next to the water can, by the door, not in the nesting boxes. But what the heck…it takes time to catch on to what you need to do when whatever you are doing is the FIRST Time!
Uncle Jeff said Bladen could name her so Blade named her Boom! When asked why he said when we found her everyone was so surprised it was like a boom.
What a smart 6 year old! (Spoken like a true Grammy J J!)
Boom is doing well, running and jumping, having a great time. Mom still has a little problem as the baby doesn’t want to drink from one teat. Terry told me that tonight we get to tie her up and milk out that quarter. Now that doesn’t sound like a fun thing to do, and I’ll just bet she would like it either.
Our son-in-law, Kelly (Misty’s husband), has a brother who wanted a yearling to finish out, so he bought this cow at $.50 a pound. The guy who sold it to him said the cow was just too mean to have in his herd so he was ‘just getting rid of her’.
Over came the cow to our holding pens, located next to kid’s house. She was scared, terrified and acted just plain mean; pawing up dirt, putting her head down and snorting through her nose….mean cow (?). Terry thought she had been treated mean, and wasn’t really mean at all.
A couple of weeks later, eating really nice hay, yummy corn, and lots of fresh water ….. and THERE IS A BABY! No one knew she was even going to have a baby (except her, of course).
Now there is a different problem, the baby can’t nurse; the cow is upset and unable to settle down, so Terry steps in and shows everyone how to get things started. He had to milk the cow first, her bag was just too full, give the milk to the baby in the bottle (yum, good), put the baby on the cow and work the little girl’s mouth so she could understand, keep milking the teat until everyone (mom and daughter) caught on to ‘this is HOW to eat’.
Now she is gentle enough everyone can get into the pen with her, she lets the baby be petted by everyone, and the pawing and snorting has stopped.
Needless to say, she is going to go live at Jeff’s in a pasture of good grass, with her baby. Mom and baby will now have a long, long life.
You can just see Terry’s head (by the post), and his arm, as he helps the calf eat and helps the mom let down her milk.
I think these calves are the most unusual we have ever raised; their Dad was a white bull and their Moms are Angus.
The boy has a distinctly ‘male’ look, complete with the horns we didn’t know were growing until he was tooooooo big.
And of course, I just think the girls are down-right beautiful! Look at those wonderful eyes!
Life on a Colorado Farm 
