My Little Project—Sunday, March 29, 2015

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Dayphoto

Finally my little project is done! After we took out the two unused chimney’s in the other house I had piles and piles of bricks. (All made by the Brick Factory in Delta eons ago. :))

Not only did I have piles and piles of bricks, I had piles and piles of bricks complete with cement still stuck to them. AND they were piled in front of the propane tank, which meant I really had to do something with them quickly.

So gradually every day, I would chip off cement– load the bricks into the wheelbarrow, and push them to their new spot in my yard.

It was a long slog, but I made it.

I now have brick walkways between my flower beds which reside along side of the entrance of our farm…all laided out on weed barrier and sand. My hope is this will keep the weeds down and my need to have to chop weeds between the beds GONE FOREVER!

It looks pretty rough right now, but over time I think everything will soften up. The plants will green up and fill in and cover over some of the bricks, making the lines not so harsh. Then the bricks themselves will settle. The wind will bring in dirt and fill in the cracks.

That’s my hope anyway!

The Craig, Colorado, kids are here. They came in yesterday. It was pure joy to look across the fields and see a light on in that house.

Two of the grandchildren spent the night with us, Blade and Tally…the oldest and the youngest. Which reminds me Bladen has a blog now…it’s a cooking blog. This grandson of ours loves to cook—pretty interesting for a 13 year old boy, I think. He is also very active in sports: football, basketball, and track, plus top of his class in academics. Gosh did this sound like bragging…I guess a tad. Please forgive me.

We are warming up. Today it’s supposed to hit 80* (26 c) YAY!

Anyway, I hope each of you have a great day!

Your friend,

Linda

Rolling Along—Monday, March 23, 2015

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Dayphoto

Terry has started rolling down the plowed earth. Thankfully the rain and the sun and the wind did not damage to the soil. By damage I mean it didn’t cause our clay type of soil to turn into bricks, ready to be fired. 🙂
It’s always nice to see the soil smooth out and start to look like a seed bed. He will still have to level the field, fertilize, and then mark it out. We always irrigate before we plant–it’s called ‘wet planting’. Some of the farmers around here do ‘dry planting’, which means they plant first then water.

We have also been moving the gated pipe around, we had three pipe break over the winter so now we have to do some adjusting.

You can see the broken pipe on the left, we will set this good pipe in it’s place. (One down two more to go 🙂

We have to have the pipe set before the fields are done with the tractor work—-everything has to be in place to start the water…time is moving along fast now. By the first week in April we hope to have the water on the land.

Our weekend was outstanding! The whole family from Craig, Colorado was here, then on Sunday we were (all) the two sets of kids and their spouses, the Craig family, Terry and I were at our son-in-law’s 43 birthday party. Good food and family, really who could ask for more?

Anyway, off to get some stuff done. I hope your day is a good one.

Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,

Linda

Sunday Stills—Trees

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dayphoto

This lucky assignment happened just in the nick of time. I was going to post my February Trees (I’m taking photos of the same trees at the same time every month—just so I can see the movement of the seasons.)

So here it is the last Sunday of the month and the Sunday Stills assignment is TREES! YEA!

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My last post of these very same trees can be seen here complete with snow on the ground!

We are almost to March, not long now. Terry said he will start farming in three weeks. Lots of the big farmers are already working up the ground.

Linda