Arizona | Life on a Colorado Farm

Thursday we took off…The lives of the kids packed into a van, the wood hauler pick-up, and our pick-up and horse trailer…moving from one life to the next. It took us a little over three hours to reach their new home.

The house is perfect! Fits all the requirements of a growing family.

Lucky, lucky us…Bladen and Linkin decided they were coming back to spend 9 or ten days with us! Linkin’s BFF rode up with Linkin so she got to come back and spend the night with us, also!

Terry’s sister and brother-in-law were also moving this same day. They were leaving Greeley, Colorado; heading on down to Prescott, Arizona. Arrangements were made to meet them in Grand Junction, Colorado as they (and Us) passed through.

The nice thing for them (and for all of us) is they had Terry’s Great Niece (their granddaughter) with them!

Sophia LOVES her Great Uncle!

(The feeling is mutual!)

Cousins and a BFF! (They had a most delightful, giggly time!)

The next morning my brother and his wife arrived to spend two days with us!

Then yesterday we had a date with our son to go four-wheeling on the Uncompahgre Plateau up at Lee’s Reservoir. Every night we’ve gotten to bed at mid-night. (How can you stop enjoying family when you don’t get to see them very much?)

Today I must, MUST, get all of us organized and into some sort of routine.

But……………first we must have a little time for play, then second we will do chores…

(Snowball the bunny)

Third we may take a nap…or Not!

Thanks for all your wonderful words of encouragement and care for us! (Me)

We are moving forward into this new way of being!

I appreciate your friendship,

Linda

Terry finished cutting the last alfalfa cutting of the season. (We get three cuttings here.)

Gosh, this summer sure has flown by! I guess it went so fast because it was my first full summer without having to go into work everyday. I had worried that I would miss the excitment of registration and then all the students coming back, but I HAVEN’T!!!! I guess I was ready…time to retire and let others take over the reins.

Both grass and alfalfa and mixed ( part grass and alfalfa) hay is leaving our area by the semi-loads. People are coming up from Texas and Arizona to get hay to feed thier critters! It’ really sad. I wish rain would start falling in the south! Days and Days and DAYS of over 100* temperatures without even a cloud in the sky is horrible. Our news here said that Texas has beaten it’s own record for the longest amount of over 100* temps…something set in the 1980s or thereabout.

Unless Terry decides differently we changed the last set of water in one of the corn fields last night, we will finish up the rest of the corn this week.

We are just waiting now, for the ground to be really (bone) dry so the pinto beans can be pulled and rowed. They will dry in the rows until all the stems and leaves are brittle, then we will start combining the beans.

The corn has dented or is in a stage of dent. Once reached that will be then of the irrigation of the corn. After that we wait for the whole stalk to dry down and then we will combine.

The largest field of alfalfa will be plowed up next year so we will be done with the irrigation of it, but the smallest field will still need water. The field must go into winter with enough green leaves to not die over the winter.