Tiny Bits of Magic—Tuesday, August 4, 2015

jI’ve been working in my yard…weeding.

kI have company coming on Thursday.

I want to get my yard weeded and watered then I will straighten the house. I have the windows washed and the floors mopped anything other than that isn’t going to happen.

h

These little acts are protection against my worrying about worrying.

Corn-sun

A bit of preservation of  the mind.

Once they have come, I will not think about those things again. Just enjoy the time together.

Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,

Linda

Monday, April 29, 2013

Boy, am I ever tired!  Yesterday about did me in…way too much to do.  But really I’m not complaining, just tired.

Everything turned out wonderful, although at that time I get concerned that I won’t get my part done, plus all the other stuff that needed put in place.

But it did.

Even my gluten-free birthday cake turned out very good.  I’ve been cooking gluten free for four years now (after years and years of being sick we finally found out Terry, Misty (our youngest) and Linkin all have Celiac Disease.

Talk about a learning curve…cooking and eating without any form of gluten (grain or man-made chemicals) has been something else.

We just all went gluten-free, it’s so much easier that way…I didn’t want to cook one way for some and one way for another.  Learning to make bread — I gave up and just buy Udi’s products — and moist birthday cakes has been hard.

I have finally made it! I can proudly say the Birthday cake was lush and moist!

Tree

So today I hope I can get done some stuff that “I” need to get done.   A lovely day to do it in…tomorrow we will have wind and the next day the temps are to plunge 20* and be horribly cold with some rain.

Have a productive Monday everyone!  See you in the morning!

Linda

The Old Apricot Tree Made It

I walked over to the old apricot tree the closer I got I realized that the Old Apricot Tree made it through the fire.

I was delighted!

This lovely old girl is starting to bloom.  The fire went around it.

The sun was just coming up adding a wonderful luster to the morning.

This apricot tree bears pink flowers and medium sized, extremely sweet fruit.

I am so happy the fire spared this wonderful tree. So very happy.

Linda

Some Days Just Do NOT Seem to End

Getting-Ready-to-Plant

(This is a grain drill)

Yesterday the new alfalfa field was planted,

Hay-Seed

(Alfalfa seed)

Grain

(With oats as a mother crop)

Dirt-Ditch

marked out and water started on it.

Smiling-Talli

Talli came for supper

Bending-Pipe

Then until 10 pm we worked on making more siphon tubes

Making-Pipe

This weekend looks even busier with the planting of the garden.  Spring is my favorite seson, but I do get tired at the end of the days, what with the farm, animals,  and my ‘paying’ job.

Still it is better than the dark, long, cold days of winter!