We are slowly making headway. If the weather holds and nothing breaks down we will make it by the end of next week.
Although, we did have a flat tire yesterday, it was on the big truck. $100 later and we are back on the road. That is so much better than one of the combine tires…think $500 or better.
Here are my trees for the fall
We are losing leaves every day now. Soon I have to get out there and rake the lawn!
Happy Halloween everyone!
Linda
Mom said it was time—I didn’t believe her so I pretended that I didn’t hear—then she said—“Come on Fuzzy, it’s TIME!”
So Boomer and I had to go!
And it was EARLY IN THE DAY!
I mean, like really early. 9:00 in the morning!
Well, too early for me for what we had to go do!
Shudder, shudder, tremble, and shake!
Of course Boomer didn’t have any trouble with going.
He never does!
Just the word GO gets his attention and he is ready.
I’m usually that way, but I just had this feeling this time that Mom was up to something.
I pretended not to hear her.
Finally, I came and we went.
Yep! I was right!
We had to go GET A BATH!!!!
I HATE BATHS!!!!
I HATE BEING AWAY FROM MOM!
I don’t cry or bark or try to bite, I just shiver and shake until Mom shows back up.
Now Boomer, Heck He Enjoys The Whole Experience….the drive there, the new smells, talking to the other dogs, rolling in the water and getting shampooed, his ears cleaned, the doggie blow-dryer, the WHOLE EXPERIENCE!!!
Now me…I LOVE when MOM comes. I then whine and bark little happy yippy barks and RUN to the truck!!
When it comes to going HOME from the GROOMERS I’m first to the truck, you can bet you it!
Fuzzy
Turn out the lights
The party’s over
They say that
All good things must end
Call it tonight
The party’s over
It froze last night….
I am always rather sad this time of year. (the first killing frost time)
A bitter sweet sadness always take over on me. Although, I enjoy the thought of no more dragging the hose to water, and weeding the gardens, it also means that the dark, dreary days of winter are looming just ahead.
Time to think of putting everything to bed….digging the tropical plants and storing them in the basement, cleaning up the walkways of weeds, picking up all the garden ornaments and the summer furniture.
Out in the fields Terry and I will be adjusting pipe and I will gather and bring in and store the siphon tubes for another winter.
The good thing about the freezes is the field corn will start to get closer and closer to drying down for harvest. Depending on the how fast everything dries down harvest will start sometime this month.
Happy Sunday,
Linda
The storms playing around on our mountains are just beautiful!
Linda
Terry and I spent yesterday switching out the broken gated pipes for new pipes,
putting in new seals in the pipes that needed them.
He also decided that he wanted to not replace the four broken pipe but extend the dirt ditch further into the field.
If he likes this he might (MIGHT) turn the whole ditch into a cement ditch…heavy on the might. The cost will be high, but the work load (after the ditch is made) lots easier.
Fall Maintenance work just makes spring work that much easier!
Linda
Saturday, our grandson had a soccer game in Aspen, Colorado. Our oldest granddaughter also had a soccer game, but hers was in Orchard City, Colorado, then to stretch everything just a tad bit more, our son-in-law had to work…he is the Assistant Principal at our local High School…he had to be at the high school because of volley ball games there all day.
SOOOOO enter the grandparents….we opted to take Blade to Aspen, we hadn’t been there in years and years and besides we wanted a day with Bladen. He is ten now and often times we don’t have him by himself, we get the girls by their selves, but rarely Bladen.
On the way up we stopped at the Crystal River to show him where some hot water enters the river.
Over the years people have created a fun little dam which allows for ‘dipping’ , he was delighted.
What a soccer field!!! In Aspen you are on top of Rocky Mountains.
Here is a quick shot through a very dirty windshield of some of ski slopes!
Linda
Once more we have been lucky to have family come visit.
Terry’s sister, Carolyn and her husband, Wayne came in a stayed a couple of nights. We took them to Grand Mesa for the day and to my father’s lake.
(Since Tallen, was with us, she had to show Uncle Wayne and Aunt Carolyn the teeter-totter)
Fall is everywhere up there!
The day was perfect…bright blue skies, golden trees, and lovely sunshine.
Linda
Lovely, thirst quenching rain. Although, Fuzzy panicked and ran into the corn field with all the thunder and the lightening. It took me about an hour to get him to come out. Boomer stayed with him the whole time. Both dogs were wet, and muddy and soaked. They got to sleep on the back porch until they both decided it was way too hot for them and went outside around two this morning.
It is still cloudy here, although not raining. Everything looks so happy and clean outside. Rain is a blessing. It’ s just hard to have it rain during harvest.
(And YES, we do have weeds….)
Whenever it rains I always think of that wonderful little song from Disney—
Linda
Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day:
And the rain rain rain came down down down
So Piglet started bailing.
He was unaware, atop his chair,
While bailing he was sailing!
And the rain rain rain came down down down
And the flood rose up up upper.
Pooh, too, was caught and so he thought,
“I must rescue my supper!”
Ten honey pots he rescued,
Enough to see him through,
But as he sopped up his supper,
The river sopped up Pooh!
And the water twirled and tossed him
In a honey pot canoe!
The rain rain rain came down down down…
We made it!
The last load went to the beanery yesterday evening.
The rain came in sometime during the night.
Two gifts….beans are done and a nice rain shower.
While walking back in from the bean field I saw a sun dog…cooler weather is on it’s way!
Linda
A huge storm is supposed to come in tomorrow, bringing 40% rain for Monday, 30% for Tuesday, and 20% for Wednesday.
We are still working on the pinto beans. Keep your fingers crossed it misses us and stays in the mountains only.
Talk to you in the morning…we have lots to do today!
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 