Terry’ has been working on the corn combine getting it ready to start corn harvest.  Seems like equipment always has issues after sitting around for a year…even if it is put up nicely. (Of course it could be ours has issues because they are old.)

 We’ve been seeing lots of little visitors to the corn fields and of course the deer are still bedding down in them.  Once the harvest starts they will leave, but not now.  Hunting season starts this week end so they are staying close, close to the farm. 

We finished the last irrigation of the year and turned off the water for good.  The alfalfa doesn’t dare go into the winter bone dry.  On October 31, the canal will be shut off and the dams closed at Taylor, Blue Mesa and Ridgway dams until March of 2011.  Farming will officially be over of another year.

Until then, though, we still have the corn to harvest…from the field to this

That is the goal as soon as the corn gets dry enough.

Linda