Orange banded bumble bees | Life on a Colorado Farm

Yesterday was just a perfect day! The renters are moved in and seem very excited about everything. We stopped by to welcome them, there were huge smiles all around!

I got my house dusted and vacuumed, and the floors swept! You don’t know what a huge thing that was. I was keeping everything cleaned and pick-up, I just have not had time to do a good job of dusting…YAY!

Aren’t these little orange banded furry bumble bees just the cutest things.

Then I got the lawn mowed, the hedge trimmed, and all but one flower bed weeded. I even got some of my house started plants in the ground. I am doing a happy, happy dance, that is for certain and for sure. Today I should finish all that up and then be in maintenance mode for the rest of the summer. (That’s the plan anyway. 🙂 )

There is such joy in finally being caught up!

The corn is looking ‘okay’ in the ground, now that rain and cold temperatures are (hopefully) in the future sometime, and the sun is shinning, The sun and warmer temperature should help the soil to warm up. Then the corn SHOULD start to sprout and send up little green leaves. There will be another cheer of great joy as soon as we see the corn rowing out!

Thank you each and everyone of you, for stopping by and for leaving your comments. I am trying very much to answer all my comments in the comment section so everyone will have the knowledge of questions and the answers. I find that fun things are occurring in the comment section, each of you are getting to know each other. How nice is that!?

Off now to work on that last bed and to finish putting the Cannas in the ground. Once that is done I can stand back and say….good!

Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,

Linda

Yep. Just after I finished posting to the blog, the heaven’s opened up and poured.

And poured

Then poured some more. Our driveway turned into a river.

The events yesterday seemed to match the weather,

our mailbox was damaged (immature Jr. High damage…easily fixed, but still)
one of our cell phones was pick up/stolen (we put a stop on the number)
A load coming from a semi to our tuck damaged the tail gate (Terry said it can be fixed)
our car developed a need to never go down the road again (sigh)
It rained off and on all night

But as the soggy, miserable, cold day wore on

we purchased a new mailbox, turned the damage into the Sheriff and the post office, and put the new mail box up. 🙂
Late, late in the day our cell phone was turned into one of the store clerks where the phone was ~~taken~~ lost–today I will have it it re-instated. Turning the ability to off to use it helped, I do believe.
The tail gate damage is on the inside of the truck, not the outside. It will be a repair, but not a obvious one
The car has an appointment to get fixed on Friday—Alan says he can do the job without too much trouble.
A beautiful basket of flowers were delivered to our house for Mother’s Day
I have about 8 humming birds now and two pair of Bullock Orioles
The Orange-banded Bumble Bees are out and about
The sun is here this morning, the little birds started chirping and singing the sun up at first light—I sang with them!