corn combine | Life on a Colorado Farm

Oh! Jolly! This the LAST DAY OF FEBRUARY! YIPPEE!!

Terry and I have been working on the corn combine…little repairs here and there. Yes, I help, invariably we come into the house with cuts and bruises, but it’s getting finished. Ready for next years harvest. As I write this he is putting in the last couple of bolts.

Saturday afternoon he started on repairing the heater in the grain truck. It’s very cold sitting down at the elevator withOUT a heater.

Well, I think you have now guessed the answer to the million dollar question—Terry is going to farm.

“Are you sure?” I asked. Worry in my voice and concern on my face.

“I’m sure. There are still things I want to do on the place, stuff I want to improve on, things that need my attention.” he replied with a huge smile.

“Only stuff I will do, not someone else.”

I need to tear up the old alfalfa field and reseed a new field, take the dirt ditch and turn it into a cement ditch….fix fences so Hank’s cows can come again—if it’s rented out Hank has to take his cows someplace else.

“I really can’t see myself sitting around.”

“But you won’t sit around, you have tons of projects you want to work on, not related to farming.”

” I know. I truly think I have dirt for blood.”

So there you have it! We begin again. At least for one more year. As long the body and mind can keep going. We will keep farming on this farm created many years ago by Terry’s grandfather (purchased by us), until time demands stopping.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

The Last Day of September the year 2013 (30 days hath September –April, June, and November).

Although, the morning’s have been very frosty (that is frost on the grass)

The days are warming up nicely, even to the point I can open the windows and pretend it is still Summer. The Daily View taken at 4 O’clock in the afternoon is still looking very nice.

Harvest is going on strong for the pinto beans, onions, and the end of the silage. The frost has taken the weight/moisture out of the ensilage corn, but it still has to be chopped and packed into the pits.

Another storm is due in Friday therefore causing everyone to work diligently in hopes of getting done, or at least as much as possible done before it hits.

We are waiting for the corn to reach the perfect amount of dryness before we must begin our corn harvest. We are thinking around the third week of October, but only time will tell.

I’m off now to help Terry work on our oldest Daughter’s wood stove. Then we will work on the getting the corn combine ready for harvest. After those two things are in place I hope to get my lawn mowed. In many ways fall is just as busy, if not more so than spring.

Your friend on the farm,

Linda