Sunday night a huge wind/potential rainstorm came rolling into our area.
Monday the sky was heavy with low clouds and the air sharp enough to make a person think of January.
The weather people said rain, but (right here) we didn’t see any.
Just smothering dust.
Hopefully, we will start to warm up again. I’m ready for the winter and it’s chill to just be a memory.
🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The dust has been building for a long-time
The wind picking it up and flinging the tiny bits of soil here and there
In all directions
But Monday
The rains came
Big dark clouds, with light misting of rain on our farm (heavy rains in other parts of our area)
Beautiful phenomenon blessing the land, settling the dust
Creating a warm mist in the air
Freshening the earth, all over again.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I went out early to wake up the hens, put our freshwater and feed, open their little runway when I noticed how beautiful the sky looked–the first glimmer of the coming day
Easter day was cold, wind blowing, buffeting man and beast, water and earth in a (most) cold and nasty way.
Big clouds filled the sky, dark with the promise of moisture, which never fell
The last set of the day, then home again, home again where warm comfort waited by the welcoming fire.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We have been having wind….lots and lots of wind
Which always makes the earth seem slightly used
It hisses through everything; stretching the earth into a dust storm of wonder
We have a strong need for rain.
(Beaglie ears flying in the wind)
But not until all the pinto beans, the onions, and the hemp are all harvested. Until then we just live in gratitude for dry weather so those farmers still trying to get crops harvested can.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We have had wind for several days now, making setting tubes a bit of a challenge
Although the daytime temperatures have been warm enough we didn’t need coats in the middle of the day
The winds gusted and moaned through the standing corn, across the rooftops and slammed into standing buildings
swallowing all of us in fine coats of dust.
The wind flailed the electric fences
and drove leaves, weeds and other loose things across the land and into our hair and eyes.
Sunday day we were still experiencing a wee wind, one that had a tendency to make us shiver.
I hint (just a hint), of winter coming.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The wind kicks up the dust something fierce
And a quick ride down the farm roads always leave a rush of dust behind
But, the last few days have brought us rain clouds
And the beauty of a bright wonderous rainbow
Glinting in the sky!
What wonderful joy to see…Rainbows in the sky. (Although, right here on our farm, we didn’t get any rain—but’s that’s okay we did get see Rainbows anyway)!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Well, it seems like I need to do some catching up. Well, not me, but you. Well not you catching me up, but me catching you up.
It’s still terribly dry here.
And the wind blows every day, —- still.
The deer are enjoying the corn.
They like corn just like Mom and Dad.
The coyotes eat the corn also. There isn’t anything a coyote won’t eat —-just say’n.
The Barn Swallows are doing a real good job of keeping the mosquitoes gone. They are on another batch of little kids so they eat lots of flying bugs. Mom and Dad and Mindy and I think that is a VERY GOOD THING!
The very busy raccoons are coming into the yard all the time. They robbed Mom’s tomato patch the other night and had a huge feast.
So, Mom covered up the watermelon hoping to protect the three which are left. (One was eaten and Mom said it wasn’t even ripe.)
Freddy Fox comes to see me every so often. He is shy and won’t come around if Mom is out on a walk with me…but I see him and give him tag wags.
The other night we almost ran into a skunk. Mom was extremely careful. She called me back to her and made me walk with her into the cornfield where we hid—and Mom took a photo.
That tail went up, up and more up, but nothing came out. Which was a very good thing. Mom and I were extremely nervous we were going to get sprayed.
But I guess the big news is Ethie and Dottie don’t live here anymore. Ethie’s real parents came and got her. They also took Dottie because Ethie and Dottie were BFF’s now and would have been sad without each other.
Then Mom was sad about not having Ethie and Dottie. She kept saying that the yard seems empty without chickens. This went on for several days.
My oldest sister (the one who has my cousin Etta) came up and gave mom TWO young hens.
Little Bit One and Two. They do everything together. If one turns left the other one does too. If one runs down the road the other one is right with them. Mom says they must have been twins. (Can chickens have twin eggs? It’s a wonder all eggs look the same to me.)
Anyway, Mom is happy again…two hens to scratch and run in her yard. I have two hens who like to take naps close to me…and Mindy has two hens who like to chase her.
Mindy is not very happy about that!!!!
Oh! Have to go!…………….
It’s UPS TRUCK TIME!
Boomer
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