Pivot Systems in our neck of the high desert are used very, very little.  They show-up if a farmer has a flat field which he cannot get to slope.  Blue Mesa Reservoir still provides the water to irrigate with (no underground lake in our area), so settling ponds have to be excavated.  These settling ponds filter out the mud from the water, then a pump, pumps the water into the pivot system.

What you are looking at is one year’s worth of excavated soil from the settling pond.

Since Terry needed about four truck loads to fix some holes around our place, our neighbor said to come on over and get some of his ‘extra dirt’.

We gladly did.

After we got back, Bladen wanted to help clean out the truck so it was ready for the harvest season.

Linkin wanted to sit on the tractor, so we put Tallen up there with her.  Tallen did not like it. But it helped having big sister in the seat with her.

The grandchildren are not allowed to ride on any of our tractors that do not have cabs…it’s just too dangerous.  But they can sit up on the seat  if we are with them.

Another storm is supposed to come in today, with snow by the week-end!  I hope it goes around us and stays in the hills!

Linda