I wish to THANK each of you for sending wishes of returned health for Riley.  Kimberly says he is having some good days right now…with all of your Magic thoughts (and special medicine)  we all hope he can turn the corner .  We are going to Grand Junction today to see him…and his parents.

Nothing really new here. It’s cloudy today with thunderstorms predicted in the afternoon, those usually play around on the Plateau; sometimes they come in and we get drenched for a few minutes.

I was able to a take a photo of a Western Meadowlark singing…I enjoy their really cool little song.

The Swallows are back…I left the nest up from last year.  They seem to be interested in doing some maintenance and redecorating.  I see long strings of back horse hair, new feathers and other exciting bits of ‘stuff’.

Another bird I really enjoy and love hearing their songs are the Red-winged black birds.

(This is a horrible photo as I had the zoom out way too far; they fly off if I get too close.

They live over in the Back Forty, but have lately taken to following us as we irrigate.  They stay a short distance away, but still rather close playing and ‘dipping’ in the irrigation furrows.  Boomer doesn’t chase them (I don’t think he knows he is a beagle) and Fuzzy is too interested in the water to even notice.

It looks like a Robin pair have built a nest in the cottonwood tree (at least I think it might be a Robin’s nest.) I haven’t seen the birds in action, just one day it was there.

The little Hummers are back, but very, very shy of the camera I hope I can get some photos of them this year…a goal of mine.

(He is using the 530 to plant with)

Terry decided to go ahead and plant a new alfalfa field, at this precise point we are 100% planted.  But it won’t stay that way as he is taking the old alfalfa field out of production …therefore keeping us as the same percentage. The old field is just too old to produce well, water is just too short to waste on a field of low production.

Well off to chase water!

Linda