It’s horribly hot here (I’ve been saying that for some time)…..

Here is the temps at 11:00 this morning

It gets worse during the day.  By 3:00 in the afternoon you and everything else has turned into crispy chips.

Of course the wind blows…that stuff can blow all night, or start around 8 in the morning or wait until after it has lunch to get really fortified…  I can’t take photos of the wind so you will just have to take my word for it….the wind is here, and it is hot, and it can get to really blowing.

Still I’ve gotten lots of places in the yard cleaned up and painted. Terry and I have hauled most of the old iron to scrap man,

(we have a couple of old cars to go next), and we have started collecting wood for winter.

That seems so insane with all of this heat right now, but it is necessary.

We are still changing water, constantly, Terry checks every two hours, if the row is through he moves it, by the end of 8 hours if the all the rows are through…they get changed anyway.  If the water stays at 50% we will make it, it gets any lower, we don’t know what will happen.

Lots of people are struggling…some farmers have had to  disc up crops because the water is so short…others are trying to save what they can for as long as they can…it’s a mess.

The first crop to go is alfalfa….prices are already high…this winter they will be worse. The next crop is onions….they take TONS of water…and their season is long…5 acres fields have been cut in half, as for 10 acre fields….lots of corn hasn’t been planted…the ground is just too dry, the air too hot, and the water too short so those guys are going for pinto beans…lots of pintos should flood the market and drop the price for them.

As of last night 10 fires are in Colorado….not around us, but around Durango, and the mountains around Denver/Fort Collins/ and Colorado Springs.  Utah is also having fires.   Montana is burning also…go to my delightful blog friends’ blog to see…. then there is Nevada —burning….fires everywhere.

We have lots of haze, I can’t imagine what it is like where the fires are.

These look like rain clouds…they never stay…they ride the wind blowing over fast, with others taking their place.

Makes for dramatic sunsets, that is for sure.

Linda