(Taken at 4:00 p.m. on my way home from work)

A horrible, high wind/cold front hit here yesterday morning bringing with it freezing temperatures and high winds gusting 45-50 m.p.h., the temperatures only getting to around 58*.

The mountain behind our place is the Uncompahgre Plateau, which borders Colorado and Utah.  Therefore, whenever we get high winds we get dirt from Utah.

I felt really bad for Terry because he was still planting corn in the bitter cold wind.  Planting doesn’t stop just because a person is cold.  Anyway, as you noticed the tractor he plants with doesn’t have a cab so not only does he have to work in the cold he has to work in the dust.

(This is Grand Mesa…I keep waiting for the snow to go.  Not yet.)

The wind was amazing.  When I was helping him irrigate (once water is started it is never turned off until harvest) we would sometimes be almost knocked off our feet.  I truly understand the term ‘being blown over’.

(Dust from Utah, the sky was a brownish red.)

Night time temperatures only dropped to 38* but today is not much better for warmth only getting up to 61* and dropping below the freezing point tonight.

But I’m ready.

The frost cloth holds temperatures steady and will protect down to -35*.

Looks like this thing will blow out of here by Thursday night so Friday should be good once again.

Then the weather map says the heat from Arizona will replace the cold front from the Pacific Northwest and we should hit 81*. 

I’m ready!

Linda