I love seeing these big machines work.
Isn’t the amount of metal trash stunning?
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Off We Went Again — Monday, October 20, 2025
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Tag Archives: October 20
There are Just SOME Days—-Sunday, October 20, 2024
That brings such joy to one’s heart, a big silent cry of pleasure!
There is a feeling that the feeling of delight will always and forever be with you.
Always!
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”–W.B. Yeats
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
The Adventures of Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai on Friday—-I Wish, Friday, October 20, 2023
There are things I wish I could tell Mom
Like the news on the lawn
Or out on the road
If she just knew
Or…even in her garden
Night visitor of the scary Fox-kind.
But Mom doesn’t understand.
She just doesn’t.
Boo Berry
Complete Stillness —- Thursday, October 20, 2022
There is a moment (a short period of time)
As the sun rapidly sets
And the shadows gather together, growing long and deep
For a short, short spell
The light changes into the most lovely of colors— lavender
Then it is gone in the blink of an eye, in one beat of the heart, but for just a moment it’s there.
For all to experience and enjoy.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
In a Spray of Glimmering Stars — Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The lovely, lovely moon
Broke through the thick and heavy clouds
Lighting our world in silver moon dust.
Oh, how I love the full moon and how the earth turns into a magic fairyland of light.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Skyline is Changing — Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Terry went out first thing Monday morning
Shelled some corn into a bucket
Then had the corn tested for moisture
WOW! 10%!
Normally we start at 14%!
So there you go
Several weeks early
The 2020 Corn Harvest has begun!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Smoke Bellowing Across the Land—Sunday, October 20, 2019
Boomer and I were out working on the farm when I noticed a huge amount of smoke in the San Juan area
After getting home I looked it up on the Fire Map…They are calling it the Cow Creek Fire
I have no idea what started it.
Scary to be having fires this time of year.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
I Give to you a Love Song—Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The weather is decidedly cold and wet. Boomer, Sam the Cat and Monkey the Cat, have decided going outside and ‘hanging out’ is best left for another day. 🙂
Still Boomer and I went for a small walk, tramping down the ditch bank roads filling our lungs with sweet, cold, fresh air.
As Boomer checked out the news I realized the wind was playing a lovely Love Song. The following is the melody…and in the end you get to hear my old lady voice as I storta stumbled while trying to turn off the camera. Be Kind, now. I was shocked to hear how much I sounded like my paternal Grandmother….I put it down to almost falling. (Lets hope so.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsiCRTMzog
As always your friend,
Linda
Spinning Standing Still–Monday, October 20, 2014
I feel like I’m just standing still spinning my wheels I have so much to do! Although, I LOVED my weekend! Linkin came to us Friday night; her parents and Bladen and Tally got here on Saturday then left Sunday after lunch.
Linky and I ‘spent both nights together’ talking and talking way into the night…there is just so much to learn about the life of a ten-year old!
Sunday afternoon Terry and I drove around checking on the corn….
It is starting to dry down…see the ears? When the ears start turning upside down the corn is getting dry. We still are in waiting mode since the corn kernels must get a certain dryness before we can start combining.
That’s okay we still have a ton of work to do down at the other house (oh, by the way—the kids were delighted in everything we have done so far!!! 🙂 ) I still have one room to paint, and Terry has the furnace to fix—that might be clear into the winter. The wood stove will have to continue to be the main heat. We will drain the water out of the house and winterize it in a couple of months.) I need to finish painting the trim on the house and the fences. Then after the corn is out we will build the fences to keep the cows out of the yard.
I really, really, really need to get some of my own house work done (which I’m doing today) and started on my yard work—I need to dig my tropical bulbs and a few things like that; plus winterize the pump and the sprinkler lines —maybe this afternoon those things can at least start.
Then I’ve been doing some volunteer research for the Paonia Cemetery District for the last two months trying to find a Henry Lux who lived here in 1926 and purchased three plots at one of the Paonia Cemeteries. I need to get a report written up and sent to them by the end of the week, preferably today, if I can.
The ending of Daylight Savings Time is looming just around the corner—which I dread. I love Daylight Savings Time the best!
This is the treehouse down at the other house…didn’t Kelly do a great job? If this tree house was up here I would hide myself away and read a book.
Well, off to do all the house work that has been screaming at me for the last two weeks…the screaming has grown into a full-blown temper tantrum today so I must go give everything some tender loving care!
Your friend,
Linda
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