Laying pipe!
With some very good help
Two down, two more to go on this ditch. We have another HUGE ditch we are putting into pipe, but that will be a tad later.
It’s looking good.
So nice.
The help was pretty helpful, also. 🙂
The workload is shrinking!!! (Just not at the moment, but come spring—-
Are we going to be farming next spring? Hummm, I wonder.)
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The leaves whisper to us as they gently float through the sky
Singing a sweet song of goodbye
We are through for the year…this is the time to sleep the trees respond…
We are preparing for that ageless power of winter—a time of rest
From my world to your heart,
Linda
I can’t help but think
As I watch the moon turn from a New Moon
To another gift of a full Moon
That the glory of the world is blessed with the innocence of a full Moon.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
Magic to me is the ordinary to others
The familiar, but marvelous all wrapped up as one.
To me, it is that sweet quick whisper of seeing one of those little creatures who share the farm with us.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I love photographing the hawk pair who live here
Marianne told me these are Nothern Harrier Hawks
This is the male— (isn’t he stunning!?)
His name is Harry 🙂
I think this is the female—Harriett–She is gorgeous!
We have become friends, of a sort.
They let me photograph them while I’m out and about.
Works for me!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Daily Boomer,
Mindy the cat, and I
(and sometimes Terry) go for a walk about the farm there is always something interesting to see and ponder over. Like…
A scary fire five miles away from us —which is an early burning off of a cornfield
The disturbed ground showing huge footprints
As something very large walked down one of the farm roads. My blood does not sing with the ability to know and understand tracks, but I do know this is a LARGE animal
Or these oddly placed twin ‘jet streams’ floating in the wind high in the sky
Speaking of sky…the thickened clouds bringing in weather make the shadows on the ground seem tame in comparison.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
The earth wakes up to each day sheathes in pinks and lavender. The light swirls around us like fairies, lighting on each and every thing…sliding down to lift up the browns and greys of the slowly fading night.
Then evening comes slanting the rays of sunbeams splashes rosey hues on the foothills of Grand Mesa
The dusk heighten in all the magic colors of the clouds, lighting the land in jewels:
burning rubies on the foothills, deep shadows of sapphire and amethyst
Smokey topaz, splashes of emerald trapped between burning orange and gold within the clouds
In the distance I hear early calls of the Coyotes…coyotes live forever, you understand.
Together Boomer and I walk upon the land; listening and watching, as the air cools on velvet wings.
From my world to your heart
Linda
Before I begin, Sara from http://myfavoritesheep.blogspot.com/ asked: “Could you post a dog/rescue charity that FuzzyDude Brown would like us to support?” I can. Back when I had more time I used to volunteer as a dog walker at CAWS in Delta, Colorado. I always hate to ask for donations, but if you are so inclined ……I thank you very much.
Our last of our company has left, but will return next weekend. This next time the whole family is coming, Momma, Daddy, and the three kids.
I’ve been raking leaves…here and at the other house.
Yesterday Terry and I started getting ready for the installation of the new furnace at the other house. Sadly we are having to tear out an old existing chimney, which has made a huge mess in the kitchen I just finished painting. It was necessary to fix the mess the other person made when he installed the propane furnace for Aunt Benita…the chimney was in the middle of the house therefore that spot is needed for the cold air intake. What a huge mess.
We will get all the prep work done…remove the chimney, restore the ceiling and floor and walls, clean up the tremendous mess (I hope I don’t have to re-paint, but if I do I will) and then we will have to crawl under the house and create (DIG) pathways for the installers to have space to work. I’m tired just thinking about it. The house was built in 1903, by Terry’s great grandfather…he was a master carpenter (although that term wasn’t coined at the time)–his work is outstanding. The house has been remodeled twice by Terry’s Aunt and Uncle who lived there after Grandpa and Grandma Hill passed. Terry purchased the house from the estate after Benita passed. All houses have their issues…we are just about to get this house’s problems completely solved. (Which will be a very good thing)
The corn is testing out at 15.6% We are very close now for the harvest to begin. Terry will have a selection of corn tested around noon tomorrow—hopefully we can start combining. Keep your fingers crossed.
The little kids loved playing in the corn tunnels—
But I’m really sure there will still be some corn still here when they come 🙂
Gradually, gradually we are starting to get caught up. I am so very thankful that we have this time (fall) to work on that other house…spring and summer are so extremely busy it would be hard to get everything done down there.
My mother would always say: “Everything works out for the best….if you just let it”.
She was so right.
Moving forward one-day-at-a-time,
Your friend on a Colorado Farm,
Linda
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