Chasing Dragons— June 1, 2014

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Dayphoto

I got this idea from reading Thoughts from the Road’s post on His Chasing Dragons!

A while back Terry and I saw this really cool Dragon. It was way up on a hillside.

Even further up was something strange and orange and like a flick of flame or something.

I have no idea what it was supposed to be…food, dragon flame? Who knows. I’ll let you decide. It was so far up it was really hard to tell…looked just like an orange dot. I had to take a photo of it to see what it was. After enhancing the photo I still don’t know.

The days are warm (hot) and lovely here. Although, we are experiencing lots of wind, I don’t mind. Terry did hook up the swamp cooler so the house could stay relatively free of blowing dirt. When the fine dust/dirt gets into the house I’m rather discouraged, as it means I have to dust…I am not a fan of dusting.

I would rather—vacuum, sweep, mop, clean closets and drawers, wash windows, paint the house inside and out, weed the yard, do anything in the yard, irrigate on the farm…you name it—than dust!

(But I do dust, I hope you understand…it is just right up there with eating boiled okra.)

Terry got the pinto beans in the ground yesterday! Yippee! We are three weeks behind on everything because of the cold wet weather we have had. It isn’t just us behind, everyone is behind.

The corn is up and rowing out, it should make it to ‘knee-high by the 4th of July’—always the goal. If it makes that tall by that time it will make before any killing freezes occur.

“Time marches on” As my Momma would say…here it is the 1st day of June. Happy June 1st everyone!

Your farm friend,

Linda

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — The Heat Shimmers

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Dayphoto

We made it to OFFICIAL summer!

And it is HOT!

Not just any hot, but HOT, HOT, HOT!

It was 107* in Grand Junction yesterday and 102* here.

The heat shimmers off the land – even the crops look wilted and tired. On top of all that we have HOT—I MEAN HOT wind.

Although, when the wind stops no one can breathe….yesterday the wind stopped, that is how I know. Why even the chickens are panting. (Have you ever saw a chicken pant? The pant just like a dog…while their mouth is open their necks move instead of their tongues).

Fuzzy and I pant and pant and pant. Mom and Dad irrigate and Fuzzy plays in the water. Mom even picked me up and put me —! ME! — In the water.

I hate water.

But…gosh…it was well…NICE!

Then we rode on the four-wheeler and dried off.

After that we had to go to town so Fuzzy and I begged and begged and begged so WE got to go with Mom and Dad.

The heat is rather wearing but getting to go for rides

PRICELESS!!!!

Not only is it HOT, it’s also DRY!!!

Thanks for stopping by …. This coming week is the 4^th of July…(Fuzzy hates the fireworks) but we just might not have some here as there is a fire ban going on….Mom said we will have to call City Hall and find out.

Everyone have a nice and safe and fun holiday!

Boomer

The Corn is Knee-High by the Fourth of July

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Dayphoto

This is such a pretty little corn field! Farmers like to have their corn at least knee-high by the fourth of July to be ready for harvest time.

(But with sweet corn, which we don’t raise, the corn will be all sorts of heights, because the harvest is staggered to meet the needs of the grocery stores.)

The only other exception to the knee-high rule is corn grown for seed, by the nature of itself most corn grown from seed will only reach knee-high at harvest.

This is our medium-sized field, the corn is doing well!

This the largest field of corn, right on track. You can see our daughter Misty’s house behind Terry. Now you understand the wonderful gift we have in getting to know these grandchildren so well.