canal bank | Life on a Colorado Farm

Mom is doing better! She says she still has a dull nagging headache, but the arm/elbow pain is gone.

We took several naps yesterday. I slept right on the floor next to her…she says I snore…look who’s talking. Humph!

Then in a tiny break in the rain, Mom, Dad, and I all went for a short ride. We went to the Rocky Point on our farm.

Dad says… ‘Let’s all go up to my place’, so we did.

We saw some deer.

And Mom saw some yellow Iris like flowers growing along the Canal Bank,

back home we all sat outside and watch the hummingbirds.

Mom said she needed a day like this.

I licked her hand. I think we all needed a day like this.
Boomer

Taking the advice of several of you I brought a bundle of twigs from the pruned Lilac inside and placed them in a bucket of water

I am waiting for the roots to appear and then I will take them outside and plant them. But of course I can’t plant them until the weather settles and the ground warms up. At the rate we are going now, I think I can plant them on Memorial Day.

Anyway, I want to plant them on the canal bank.

This is a main artery of the canal, of which we get our irrigation water. As you can see the mad, rushing, and roaring water has a tendency to eat away the bank. (All photos were taken before the last big snow storm. The snow is gone now, melted with the rain.)

The canal runs right by our house and yard so I plant trees and bushes to protect the bank.

Since I need to cut down the ancient (un-pruned) Standard Delicious tree, the lilacs will fit on up the bank perfectly.

It is still raining here. Still muddy. And cold 41*. There is nothing we can do but wait. But just as soon as the ground is ready, every tractor in the land will be either ripping the soil or plowing.

Come on sun!

Linda