I looked out the kitchen window and saw…
My clothesline has fallen over!
It’s supposed to look like this
Now it looks like this
I ran out and got my bedspread and gave a good look at the base of the pole.
Sigh!
Rotted off.
Oh. Well, it can be fixed.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Love you!
May the coming year
Be better than ever!
You are one in a billion!
From my heart to your world,
Linda
Finally
The Big Cat
Will play with me!
YAY!
TLC Cai-Cai
On a wee walk-about with Mindy…she was more intent on staying ahead of me than seeing that cute little bird.
(Which I was very grateful for. 🙂 )
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
This handsome fellow is often seen. This part of the farm is HIS.
There are at least three more males in different areas of the farm, but I don’t always see them when I am out and about.
I haven’t seen his ‘girl’ or ‘girls’, but I’m sure they are there. 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Our area—not just where we live and farm
But our whole area, everything below the Grand Mesa, areas fed from the Gunnison River and the Uncompahgre River
Are being rationed for irrigation water.
Some places have already been told they will have NO water and domestic water is also being monitored
You see there has not been enough snow in the mountains for the last two years (longer in some areas)
The snow this year will melt into the ground and fill the underground lakes and streams and possibly the lakes and reservoirs
Hopefully the lakes and reservoirs.
The water managers have begun rationing…
It’s early…very early…usually rationing doesn’t start until the heat of summer.
Water—-it’s on everyone’s lips. A nagging concern in the back of everyone’s mind. And constant management on all farms with all farmers.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The wind is back…great sweeps of gusts up to 50 mph…
It beats everything in its path to pulp
I have always been a person who likes wind, but this year it’s been a tad trying.
Although I know we need the wind to stir the sap in the trees and bushes and to melt the snow
(Caught on the game camera 🙂 )
I’ll be glad when the heavy beating wind changes into broad swathes of gentle puffs of soft breezes.
Soon, maybe soon.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
One of the gated pipes had a huge crack in it’s side—therefore, we had to go through our extra sticks of pipe and haul one over for the repair
Once there the pipe had to be pulled apart
The broken one removed.
(Mindy is helping. She had to check out the pipe to make sure we got the broken one.)
She approved.
Then we had to put the new pipe in place of the damaged pipe. And hook up all the pipes together again.
Took lots of time–pulling and tugging, then rolling the gates up into position.
You would think gated pipe would make irrigation easier, but the reality is they are lots of work.
So. There you go…the time-consuming repairs on top of all the ‘regular stuff.
And the gift of the day—A RAINBOW!
Oh, the joy!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Mom and I
decided it was time
to go for a walk-about.
Off we went together
Mom looking at this and
That
And taking photos
of ME!
We go on
walkabouts at
LEAST once a day
…oftentimes
more.
Here we go
Walk-about
Mom
And I.
Mindy Lou-Sue
We spent all day Monday…from 9:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening (after irrigation and before irrigation)
Moving dirt.
You see our canal water is so full of dirt that settling ponds have to be dug; allowed to have the water flow into the pond, and the dirt to settle out, then the pond is dug out in the Spring.
Not to waste the dirt, or let it blow away in the ever-present wind
We load and haul the dirt to different spots on our farm. Putting the dirt back into the SOIL of the ground.
A long day sandwiched in between the other stuff.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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