It’s been HOT again. August heat in early June 😦 With wind, wind, wind —40 M.P.H. wind.
Short water, very short, and the ground so dry the water can’t get it wet.
So we said —–
Why not!?
BIG SMILE HERE!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Gone are the days I needed a jacket in the morning.
Even the trees are restless, the top leaves are turning yellow and floating down to the lawn in a convulsing sort of way.
My roses are drying up, and chasing each other in a quivering mess of dropped petals
It will take some time for all the petals to drop, but they will. Then the rose hips appear.
The heat (we hit 107°F* on Thursday of last week) wafts the scent of roses into each and every corner
Soothing our hot and sweaty brows.
We need a rainstorm —
But we get instead—
Hot, dirty wind.
But don’t let my whining fool you–
I still love summer best!
Peiskos (n): The feeling you get when you sit in front of the fireplace and enjoy its warmth.
Happy Solstice! Onward we go toward shorter days and even hotter weather. Only cooling down in October!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
It’s HOT! Here! I do mean HOT! We’ve been hitting high, high, 90s and low 100s.
We are just about done with the first field of Alflafa’s customers. We load 150 bales out today.
We will start cutting the second field this week sometime!
That amazing sun— a gift of light and HEAT! For some reason, this year the heat is getting to me. And the hot wind—we are still having lots of wind.
Tacenda (n): Things better left unsaid; matters to be passed over in silence. 🙂 🙂
No matter the heat, the wind, and all the work —- I still love Summer the best!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
It’s time— we needed to go get another load of firewood–
It’s been cold here. Wind, skiffs of snow—Brrrrrrrrrrr.
The wood is the perfect heat for a nasty winter day!
“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.”–George Elliston, American Journalist
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
These are beautiful flowers from Elaine, in the Black Forest, Colorado. Thank you, Elaine.
The amazing, over-the-top heat has arrived, seeping into every aspect of every part of our lives
Bearing down into our souls, it’s so hot.
No matter the boiling temperatures…we still must step out onto the farm for our everyday work
The sunshine seems to shimmer across the land
And the shadows fall deep and cool under the brilliant stunning baking air.
Even though it is amazingly hot the land is still beautiful
And the lives who live with us on this terra firma keep us humble in a wonderful way.
By evening a hot, brusque wind sweeps down from the Uncompahgre Plateau, through the canyons; giving us a respite from the baking oven-like feeling the lack of moving air seems to provide.
No matter what…heat and bugs and all…I still like Summer best! 🙂
From my world to your heart,
Linda
The heat has risen to over 100* for the last few days, 102*, 103*f (37.77c) sometimes with wind; a hot wind, sometimes not. Just hot still air. (I am NOT complaining, for I LOVE SUMMER!)
It’s hard to keep things wet, but so far we are doing okay.
The really bad thing about this weather
Ever!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The heat has been like a hammer the last several days…
Still, the evening’s have been soft and lovely
But what has been the best thing
Right out our back door
Covering our whole farm…
A PERFECT double Rainbow!
WOW!
From my world to your heart,
Linda
My world is small. I realize that. But it’s a small I relish and enjoy.
For instance:
I feel great excitement, and joy, in the contented knowledge the pinto beans are up..sprouting forth into warm (HOT) yellow light
And every field of corn is up!
The green of all leaves coloring the world in brilliance!
We set water early, early morning and late in the evening.
Several times of day we are checking the water, making sure the tubes are still running, the rows getting wet, the plants receiving moisture!
Overhead the sun shimmers, baking every particle of everything…scattering— instantly— gobbling up every morsel of moisture into the air.
The irrigation water pushes up little puffs of dust, as the earth feels the exaltation, of the flowing streams; the gurgles of a song of hope!
Then THERE…in the chaos of rushing water I saw a rainbow!
That little gift bringing an sensation of joy!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
From my world to your heart,
Linda
We went from this
To this and have stayed at this for weeks now. Rain and rain and even more rain.
Sigh! The days are long and grey and boring and ever so nasty.
Still it seems like there is always something that needs to be done.
I’m looking forward to walking with Boomer in the SUNSHINE! Where we throw shadows on the ground and our feet don’t collect mud!
But not yet! Not today. Not for awhile. Another big storm system is heading in here in a day or so, until then just know that I am
Dreaming of those hot summer nights some place in the future!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We’ve been living with heat for several, several days now.
Miserable heat, the kind that hangs in the air and never really seems to cool down. (Although, I will take this heat over winter any day!)
The weather people said we might have rain yesterday…so we waited.
Then last evening I could see rain playing around us on the Uncompahgre Plateau.
Rain chutes filled the sky looking toward Montrose and over toward the Peach Valley area; still the bumblebees and the hummingbirds never exhibited anxious hovering in the flowers like they do before a storm makes it’s way to us.
We set the last set of water in the glow of the Full Thunder Moon; the air more restless than early in the evening.
Then during the night the rains came! We woke to beautiful fresh air, the ghost of the storm hanging damply on each blade and leaf.
Today is alluring, with clouds moving in again, and the promise of POSSIBLY more rain. My garden, the farm, and myself are all doing the happy dance!
Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,
Linda
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