Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Dayphoto

The day’s are shorting now…around 7:30 in the evening we head out for the last check of water for the day.

We also are monitoring the pinto beans. The field is turning yellow, which means the pintos are now ripe and ready to be pulled.

Probably next Friday Terry will pull the pinto’s so they can start drying.

We will need the days to stay hot and dry once they are pulled.

(see the nasty bull thistle seeds)

(The steps for pinto bean harvest is — pull the plants and leave them lay until nice and crispy, combine the plants, which is taking the beans out of the dried plants and putting them into the hopper then the truck to be delivered to the Beanery, have the beans sacked and the sold—DONE for the year)

He is baling the new cutting of hay as I write this. The first of second week of September will be the third cutting of the old hay field. Dry weather needs to prevail for at least a month now. 🙂

The moon was lovely last night.

I also saw a small rainbow from the storms playing around us.

My four o’clock photo of the Daily View features my Sun dial garden… rich and lush with 4 O’clocks. The Hummingbirds love this area!

A very contented friend, Linda

I Should Have Known

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Dayphoto

And with the 4010 also!

The Doctor said it was a torn muscle…it will heal, the tear doesn’t seem to be real bad—so with ice, rest, elevating the leg in two weeks it will be good to go.

Sure!

Two weeks –an eternity–so off we went.

I made sure the bales were straight so he wouldn’t have to get off the tractor; he did the rest.

Today he says his leg feels a lot better and he will soon be back in shape by the weekend.

I sure hope so! He is going to make sure it is.

I guess I’m not surprise.

Linda

Monday, June 10, 2013

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Dayphoto

The hay is looking good! We need to haul it in soon…either today or tomorrow, Wednesday at the latest.

This might be the last time we get a cutting off this field since the water is short. Terry will decide after the hay is hauled in.

I know I keep going on and on about the water (I’m sure it is becoming and old song by now) but that is where our thoughts are. Moving water, making sure everything gets wet, always asking the question “can we make it?” Everyday we ask, everyday we work it a little bit more and ‘whew’ we are through those rows.

Terry is off to the Doctor around 9 this morning, which will tell us more about his leg. He is DETERMINED that HE WILL haul in the hay…

sigh

Sigh, sigh!

I decided I will just have to see it though, and if I can pick up the slack I will.

We finally had to break down and hook up the air conditioner. 93* was hot and today it is supposed to be 103* It was time

Besides coming into a cool house was nice after the blistering heat in the fields. The wind is predicted to rise today so having the cooler on will help keep the dirt out of the house.

Well, not much going on here, just taking it one day at a time, one field at a time and waiting to see what the Doctor has to say.

Thanks for stopping by,

Linda

Monday, June 3, 2013

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Dayphoto

We had great fun with Linkin. A day with just one of the grandchildren…their day..is always nice. She is still here and will go with me later on this morning to ‘pet the kitties’ at the shelter while I walk the dogs. A child has to be fourteen to walk dogs, but the shelter manager lets Linki pet all the kitties and play with them in the big walk-in cage. This works out for everyone, me, Linkin (who adores cats), the dogs and the kitties.

It’s nicely warm here 88* yesterday with some clouds drifting by and a little breeze or so.

Terry has decided today he will cut the alfalfa…the long-range forecast is for hot, drying weather for a least a week. Good! At the end of the week, the alfalfa will be dry as toast and morph into hay. Then we pray for dew in the morning so he can go out and bale the hay. After he gets it baled he will haul it in and the dogs and I will work on the hauling in of the ends of the fields.

My favorite little bugs are very active right now…I just adore these fat, furry buzzy bees!

She was very intent on her work so didn’t mind that I was shooting away with my camera.

She also posed several times, I just sure she loved having a photo shot going on while she was so very busy!

Linda

Crop Report

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Dayphoto

Summer is fast coming to a close. It doesn’t seem possible that this is the last full week of August. School started here for everyone. The big busses passed our house early this morning (there are two). This afternoon my little grandchildren will get off the bus and walk down our lane until volleyball season ends. Misty is one of the volleyball coaches at the middle school so the two oldest grandchildren will ride the bus to our house. The littlest kid will already be here. 🙂

The pinto beans are starting to turn yellow and the bean pods have striped up, Terry should be pulling them in about two weeks if the weather stays warm.

The hay is getting close to the third cutting which should also hit in about two weeks (crops have thier own schedule…they don’t take yours into consideration 😉 )

And the corn has moved from the blister stage (where it is soft…if you stick your finger nail in one of the kernals it will pop) into hardening up. We raise hard-dent corn…. this is the corn you cook with to make corn bread or it is ground up and put into animal feed. Only about two maybe three more irrigations for the corn.

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We will still have to irrigate the hay to make sure it has a good healthy start into the winter, but our work is rapidly winding down.

The last week has brought moisture into our area…I only saw one rainbow, but it was wonderful….hitting the pinto bean field just about the time I was out picking corn! It was raining closer to the south side of Delta … we didn’t get wet. They got the rain, but I got to see the rainbow!

Linda

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Hay Customers

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dayphoto

Amanda and Matt from http://barnraisin.blogspot.com/ Barn Raisin blogspot came to buy hay. Once more meeting blog friends is like meeting old friends.

Linda

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Second Cutting of Hay

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Dayphoto

We are hauling the little field now. Up before dawn and out in the field by 5:30. Get the water set and start on the hay. By 7 it’s already hot and the bugs are biting.

If the weather holds, (it’s suppose to bring in more thunderstorms today at noon), the largest field of hay should be ready to bale tomorrow morning. We hope tomorrow morning, if not then Wednesday. Everything is a race against the weather.

At least it is hot drying weather (100+*) and if the thunderstorms stay in the mountains everyone who is doing hay will get done fast. Hot weather helps the alfalfa dry into hay.

Linda

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Rain, Rain Go Away

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Dayphoto

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Come again some other day! Sigh.

The hay can’t dry with all this rain!

Please Sun come on out and shine all day!

( I hope I didn’t just jinks us with a drought! Goodness farming is such a gamble!)

Raining on the Hay

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Dayphoto

Here it is the second cutting of hay and two things have happen: it keeps raining and the hay swather broke! Like they always say, if you want rain, just cut the hay (or wash your windows or the car).