The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-Getting Closer and Closer, Friday, April 11, 2025

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Dayphoto

Mom said we are getting closer and closer to starting the water on the farm

There are just a few things left to do—

Mark out all the fields—the alfalfa fields

The corn fields

and fix the gated pipe

Gated pipe always, always, always walks apart over the winter.

And make the ditches (and clean the ditches) Gosh, there’s lots left to do. But much closer.

Once those things are done—

Then, we go out to check/change the furrows twice daily (maybe more often).

Until it’s harvest time in the fall.

Boo Berry, Mom’s helper all the way

Good, you do that—-I’ll protect the farm!!!

Cynefin—Welsh (m.) A place where a person or an animal feels it ought to live and belong; it is where nature around you feels right and welcoming

TLC

O! That Lovely Lovely Moon — Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Dayphoto

The lovely cool silver light

Outlining the clouds in the sky

Slowly growing and glowing

Whispering beauty all around.

Love, love, love the full moon.

Always,

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

When the Work Starts to Over-Whelm —- Monday, April 11, 2022

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Dayphoto

When the workload starts to over-whelm

And exhaustion starts to murmur and whisper

Then begins thrumming throughout your body

Then it’s time

To give yourself a little treat.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

An Enchantment — Sunday, April 11, 2021

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Dayphoto

While out irrigating, last evening

I found a Sandhill Crane feather.

Feathers are from the Heavens, from a loved one or an Angel.

A lovely gift—

from a beautiful bird

And those who love me from across the Veil.

From my world to your heart,

Linda

A Great Storm Blew In—-Thursday, April 11, 2019

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Dayphoto

Yesterday and Today are miserable days to be outside

Although, Terry and I had some work that HAD to be done…wind, rain, sleet or snow, no matter

The bitter wind blew off all the Apricot blossoms

Making the ground white

Even landing on a very disgruntled cat

Today is pretty much the same

I went out to look for rainbows, but the clouds were not the right kind.

Photo copied from Face Book

Still, we had nothing compared to the eastern slope!

Nothing.

They are calling it a Bomb Cyclone

https://gazette.com/news/storm-packs-roads-north-of-colorado-springs-with-ice-and/article_e0cd8780-5c52-11e9-9e2b-73ada87b16f5.html

So in loving memory of the Apricot blooms,

I will close for now,

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

An UnEase in the Air Today—Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Dayphoto

Photo from the other day when we got some glorious rain!

The sky is full of threatening clouds today…and it feels cold. Cold enough, if I didn’t think better I would think it might snow.

Although….the weather people say we are going to warm up to 81* today. How odd.

Another photo from our brief rain—irrigating in rubber boots

There is a slight breeze, but the scents in the air are of damp and, well, snow. Along with the smell of water on the land, stirred soil, where I have been raking up last years trash on the flower beds, and the roaring canal running passed our farm.

The world is still turning toward spring, the days are growing longer and the nights much shorter.

Of which I rejoice!

This is Terry going out the other night in the rain to check the water, while I stayed inside all warm and dry. 🙂

Still…even if it does snow. It is still Spring and it will melt and soon the air and the ground and everything alive will burst forth into a wondrous settled time of soft spring days!

I am ready.

I am waiting.

I am excited!

For after Spring comes SUMMER!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

We’ve Started Water—Monday, April 11, 2016

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Dayphoto

Hard work but every so necessary. Without water we would not have crops. And here we must water with syphon tubes or gated pipe.

First we had to clean out the ditches—these ditches are terrible for collecting trash from our fields and neighbor fields, that Colorado wind, you know. 🙂

Then while Terry marked out the fields I picked up all the syphon tubes I so carefully put away last fall and placed them in their proper slot on the ditch.

After which it was time to start the water…Terry does the head gate thing, I’m a tad ‘feared of the head gate. Scary roaring powerful thing that it is.

Then we both start digging out the ends so we can lay the tubes into them. The tubes suck the water from the cement or dirt ditches and channel the water down the rows. Gated pipe is much easier, you just open a gate. BUT trash gets in the pipe, plugs up the gates, you can’t get it out without tremendous work…a stick took both us four hours to get it out…it was just out of reach and we couldn’t get it…then it trapped all the weeds….ick.

We do this over and over until all the furrows are full….we set about 40 tubes per field.

In eight hours that set has the soil wet enough we can move on up the ditch. Right now we have two fields we are working in. Two areas to dig out ends, walk the water down the row to make sure it keeps going straight and doesn’t cut over into a neighboring furrow.

Lots of work…but you know what!? I love it! I love the smell of the water when it first hits the bone dry soil, and I love the rich, moist smell of the fields after the water is removed.

We check constantly making sure everything is working well. The first irrigation of the season is the worst, (in the terms of work), but once the rows seal, the plants are up, it’s just a matter of setting tubes and making sure the water makes it to the end (so the next field can get some.)

Sure is a nice life…if Terry had dirt in his veins, then I have irrigation water in mine. Tee Hee.