I’m sure you are getting tired of these, but I just can’t help sharing…
although, we are NOT getting rain, someone somewhere close by must be. At least we are getting to see the rainbows!
Linda
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Enter—a Rainbow
Although we haven’t really been having rain here, the heavens do pour around us.
Coming in last night the sky was very dramatic, I wish I could have taken a photo of it. The whole sky was lite from each corner of the globe.
There within that amazing sky was a rainbow!
Linda
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
We are having 20% chance of rain right now…which is rather nice actually. It isn’t raining here (right here on the farm), but it is raining around us in the mountains. We get to watch the clouds play across the sky then settle down on one of the hillsides and let down a little thirst quenching shower. What it brings to us is the cooling of the day…we’ve been hitting anywhere from 90* to 100*.
I have been looking for rainbows, but there aren’t many yet. I keep looking; they are bound to appear since there IS rain around.
Linda
The Adventures of Fuzzy and Boomer on Friday — Got Ya
Now as everyone knows, it’s been hot here!
Hot and dry!
Dry and Hot!
Did I tell you it has been very hot and dry here?
Well, it has.
Still the work has to go on.
We are still changing water every eight hours.
Boomer and I LOVE to change water.
We were out with Mom and Dad changing water last evening when Boomer hollered that Pete and Polly were over at the old apricot tree!
I didn’t go see them; the bubbles in the water were more fun.
Boomer said he just barked “Hello” and went on his way…there were lots of things to smell out in the equipment yard:
- The bunnies have had more babies
- Two more ground squirrels have set up home next to the leveler
- The badger has two little badgers hanging in the badger hole
- Nope, still no coyotes…..yet (we hope they don’t come back…they can live in the draw or the canyon, but not here, please!)
- Hummmm, the raccoons and the fox were fighting over the fallen apricots
- The big buck deer is sleeping in the middle of the corn field
- There are two new fawns
You know lots and lots of news.
A whole bunch of storm clouds blew in around the two o’clock setting that afternoon.
It cooled down real nice.
Then suddenly the heavens broke loose…thunder, lightning (shudder, shiver, pant, panic) and big wind. Boomer and I headed indoors to be with Mom. Thunder doesn’t bother Boomer at all. Nothing really bothers Boom, outside of some men and some boys in caps and the garage other than that…he is always happy!
While we were inside it rained!!
Yippee! Mom and Dad were so happy they sat outside and watched it rain. Lots of rain, really nice rain! (Oh and when they went outside I (and Boomer) had to go outside with them (shudder) because I am NOT leaving Mom when there is thunder in the sky!!!!
EVER!
Then Mom saw it……
A RAINBOW! Just as the sun was starting to set!
“A perfect ending to a perfect day”, Mom said.
Just then the phone rang….it was Mom-mom, seems that Hank Puff met Pete and Polly.
(Taken with a cell phone)
Which reminds me, we did hear Hank sort of barking and yipping down at his house, but since there was so much thunder I didn’t really listen to him.
I keep telling that boy, he can’t chase everything, nor can he bite at everything.
(taken with a cell phone)
Boomer asked me later, just as we were going to sleep…
“Fuzzy?”
“Hummm?”
“Do you think Hank Puff has learned his lesson about trying to catch everything that walks close to him?”
“I don’t know, Boomer. I really don’t know”
Fuzzy
Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
Hummingbird Nests
Two little families of Hummingbirds have built nests in one of our really old sheds.
I keep waiting for the little birds to hatch, but then they do and I miss them. Darn it.
Anyway, I’ll keep watching. The next set of eggs I hope to see hatch and if I do so will you!
Linda
Getting Ready for Winter
We’ve been cutting and hauling wood. Permits are not expensive and you get 4 cords of wood.
Gradually we (meaning all of our kids and us) are getting our winter supply.
We mostly cut on the Uncompahgre Plateau, which is behind our farm.
It’s for sure I can’t haul out logs this size…. its a good thing our son can. They (meaning Terry/ Evan / Kelly) have to cut the logs down so the rest of us can haul and load them. 🙂
This is a view coming off the top of Grand Mesa. I grew up in that valley down there…which is the Cedaredge/ Eckert area. Lots more people there than when I was a kid. At the time of my youth it was mostly cattle ranches and fruit farms. We had 36 kids graduate out of my Senior class.
Everything changes as time moves on.
We saw another rainbow as we headed in from the plateau
You all might be getting tired of these gifts from heaven, but I sure am enjoying them.
Linda
Wednesday–Blue Skies
It rained again last night, around 3:30 in the morning
But the sun is shining and the clouds are moving away. I checked the weather forcaste where it looks like we are now in the 40% chance of rain, with it mostly in the mountains.
The sunrise caught the last of the early morning rain just leaving and I caught the gift with my camera so I could share it with you.
Linda
Monsoon Season
The monsoon season is also known as the rainy season, coming about due to a shift in wind directions that bring excessive rainfall. Right up from the Gulf of Mexico to us.
July is our monsoon season, some years it misses us all together, but we’ve been lucky. The other side of the Continental Divide in our state (Colorado) is very, very dry.
On the other hand all the moisture is causing havock with the second cutting of hay. If the alfalfa is cut then rained on you can pretty much weep tears. Rained on hay loses much of it’s food value.
Once cut it takes around 6-7 days of hot drying weather, less if you can get hot drying weather with a little wind. Then the good weather has to hold with enough moisture (dew) in the morning to bale. Baling with dew is good for it keep the little leaves attached to the stem of the plant. The little leaves are where the food value is…a dry old stem is pretty much like eating straw.
Terry’s cutting the small field today…it’s suppose to be nice for about six or seven days in a row so he is chancing it.
Then on Friday or Saturday he will cut the large field.
After that we hold our breath hoping the rain stays away until we get it baled and stacked.
One nice thing about the weather…the sky is ever so dramatic!
Then after each wild storm rolls through the sun comes out and there is a rainbow!
🙂
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 