And No hay down! YAY!
This is from my archives —- but, still—-it happened and looked the same
WE GOT RAIN!!! Thursday late afternoon, we got rain! Lovely, delightful, rain!
Only one day. But no hay was down, so it was just perfect!
Word of the day: Petrichor (n) pet/re/chor: The wonderful smell in the air after it’s been raining.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Hot Air Balloons were here from the Fourth of July through the Sixth of July!
Getting set up
First they fill it with cold air
Then they add the hot air which gives them Lift Off
17 balloons, plus crew were here
It was a joyous feast for the eyes!
One by one they took to the sky.
Beautiful! Beautiful!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
This last photo is the last blast of beautiful!
God Bless America!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
First off—everything was very scary! Very! But gradually I am getting used to everything.
I’ve been here 9 days now.
Nine very eventful days.\
I’ve met Black Beauty, TLC Cai-Cai, all my human sisters and my humans’ brothers-in-law, and Mom’s granddaughter Tallin. It’s been a lot!
I have also gone on several four-wheeler rides, the first time in Mom’s arms then I got my own four-wheeler seat.
Once I get off the four-wheeler I get to help Mom and Dad change the water
While they are doing that I sniff up and down the ditch bank.
(All the fast running water scares me so I stay away from it.)
On my last trip up to the new Alfalfa field I found something I didn’t know existed—
COYOTE POOP! Oh! The! Joy! I sniffed all over it then laid down and squiggled my body all over it. I was in Heaven.
It was at that point Mom yelled at me!
“BOO STOP IT!”
Shish. My dirty nose and face are just fine, Mom!
Back home I got WASHED!
Geez.
Anyway…I’m home. It’s nice. Mom says I’m becoming a FARM DOG!
Boo Berry Betty
The heat is back…hot like the underside of burning logs
The day starts so brightly, if you shut your eyes the light stays under your eyelids for a long, long time
Sometimes the clouds build up around us..skimming flat over the plateau
and a wind bends the long grasses this way and that
Then the clouds move on being pushed somewhere else. (Which is a good thing with the alfalfa turning into hay)
The first field of alfalfa is now being baled and hauled.
The second field has been cut and is drying into hay—-
Our days busy, busy with the back and forth of this and that.
2nd cutting of hay: First field is done, the second field in the process, the third field still to go.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Although, the heat simmers across the land, often times the night sky is cloudy
But, delightfully, the setting moon’s sky is clear
Shinning large and bright glowing over the Uncompahgre Plateau
Then quickly sinking as the glowing sun wakes up the day.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Looking up
In that impossibly wondrous sky
Are those marvelous flying machines
Traveling from here to there and even beyond, into worlds not known
Part of the heavens, yet still of the earth.
From my world your heart,
Linda
Since the duck was white, everyone decided she needed to be named something from the movie Frozen. So, Elsa, she became.
I rigged up a wee pond, a pallet fence, gave her all the food and water she wanted and we all settled into watching Elsa enjoy her new life with us.
Then checking my FB messages I found out, that Elsa had a home. About a mile from here, way up the canal with two really big headgates in the canal. She lived with 8 other ducks, 6 big dogs, two little dogs, several horses, a sheep and two tiny tots.
So Terry and I and our youngest granddaughter loaded up Elsa and took her back home.
When we drove into the yard, Elsa started getting very interested, even excited, she knew she had come home!
Well! A perfect ending to a rather eventful experience for a really nice duck….we named Elsa!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We have a HUGE break in the triple digit weather…
It rained all night last night! Giant, luscious, rich drops of water.
Too much of anything is just too much! A break in the heat is lovely!
This moisture is in here until tomorrow then we slowly start the climb back into the heat. Until then…ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,
Linda
I’m a tad late today as we had to do some stuff before it got too hot to breathe. We had several weed trees (Chinese Elm) that had taken root in my tiny orchard and sprouted to enormous proportions–some dead branches in the ancient (95 years old lilac tree) and some low hanging and dangerous limbs (Rio Grande Cottonwood) and a nasty branch (Colorado Blue Spruce) which kept scraping my neck as I mowed the lawn which all needed Terry’s expertise with the chain saw.
Awhile back I asked if anyone had cool rainbows or other really neat photos that they would love to share with me and with the readers of my blog. If they would send them to me I would put them on my blog and give the appropriate credit for the photo gift.
Leenie from Side Trips sent me two photos of Fog Bows. I have never seen nor heard of a Fog Bow so this was a real treat!
The Side Trips folks stopped by not long ago on their way from Telluride to Grand Junction, Colorado. How cool was that!
Leenie is an amazing watercolor artist. You might take a look at her Esty store to get and idea for a neat gift or two.
Well, off now to get the lawn mowed, the edges trimmed and the hedge clipped. I need to fertilize some of my lagging plants so I best get on the move. The day is heating up…which I LOVE!
Your western Colorado Farm Friend,
Linda
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