“We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”—Brad Meltzer
We got to go to our youngest granddaughter’s soccer game yesterday!
Of course we are the typical doting grandparents
Loving every second sitting out there in the noon day sun!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We spent Saturday and Sunday in Grand Junction at the soccer tournament. The two oldest grandchildren were playing—of course we had to attend. 🙂
It was horrid cold, bitter, bone chilling wind, thunder storms and lightening which slowed the games down…..everyone has to leave the field until 30 minutes after the last lightening strike, and long. We couldn’t stay for the last games of the day because of getting home to change water.
Today is still cool, jacket wearing cool, but no freezes THANK HEAVENS!! Everything is up and growing to have a killing frost now would be…a disaster! (But we won’t even go there in our thoughts—tomorrow it starts to warm back up.)
I some photos of one of the males of the little hummers who are visiting the feeders
They aren’t the best photos,
but at least a start!
I hope everyone has a great Monday.
Linda
Saturday, our grandson had a soccer game in Aspen, Colorado. Our oldest granddaughter also had a soccer game, but hers was in Orchard City, Colorado, then to stretch everything just a tad bit more, our son-in-law had to work…he is the Assistant Principal at our local High School…he had to be at the high school because of volley ball games there all day.
SOOOOO enter the grandparents….we opted to take Blade to Aspen, we hadn’t been there in years and years and besides we wanted a day with Bladen. He is ten now and often times we don’t have him by himself, we get the girls by their selves, but rarely Bladen.
On the way up we stopped at the Crystal River to show him where some hot water enters the river.
Over the years people have created a fun little dam which allows for ‘dipping’ , he was delighted.
What a soccer field!!! In Aspen you are on top of Rocky Mountains.
Here is a quick shot through a very dirty windshield of some of ski slopes!
Linda
One field of corn seed is in the ground.
Terry planted Friday and with this hot weather we’ve been having 80+* for the last several days, the corn seed has already past the swelling stage and starting to shoot roots.
Terry will plant the other field of corn today.
Since the first field is already shooting roots he will harrow off the top of the row bed so the little tips of the corn won’t have a hard time coming through and also that will knock some of the weeds down. Usually the corn bed is harrowed about five days after planting. (This should happen Tuesday sometime-Wednesday at the latest, if it goes too long the corn will be up and will struggle to get through.)
Friday and Saturday we spent getting the gated pipe ready for the other half of the farm and setting the new earth/dirt ditch. After much thought and heavy pondering…..gated pipe is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE NOW…..We decided to go to earth/dirt in place of some gated pipe that broke. The ditch is pretty soft right now so will take lots of extra effort on our part until it seals. Or imprints — meaning holds water and remembers where the water is supposed to stay….not run off here and there and everywhere.
Of course the gated pipe (two sticks) had to break somewhere in the middle and at the beginning of the pipe. So we had to ‘adjust’ all the remaining pipe so we could put the earth ditch at the END of the gated pipe. That meant lots of jerking apart (by hand) and picking up and moving, one on each end, then shoving back together again.
We had a little break and watched our oldest granddaughter play soccer. Breaks are always nice, they make you appreciate what you’ve accomplished and give you a mini-rest.
The soccer field is in the valley, on the banks of the Gunnison River, and at the doorway of the Adobes. You can see the ‘dobies in the background. The ‘dobies give rise to the foothills surrounding Grand Mesa.
(All the locals call those adobe hills, which skirt the base of the mountain ranges in Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona, ‘dobies.)
Linda
Blade is such a hardy little fellow. And so completely up for any challenge. He finished the soccer season
And is now trying to learn how to set tubes, he can do the gated pipe as long as we are there if something doesn’t work just right.
His little 7 year-old hand is just not quite large enough to cover the end, but after many tries he got the aluminum tube,
And then the really, really hard ‘white’ tube.
Blade’s tube set!
Fuzzy thinks he is lots of help, but I wonder.
Organized sports are such a fun thing, especially when you are in the first grade and you get a neat shirt with your last name on it, “Like Dad has”.
That is worry on his face, he was afraid he won’t do well.
“Only Dad’s say Football, or Basketball, or Track and also say Coach” I was informed.
But the “REALLY BEST THING is getting to run ALL the time! Football is ‘okay’ but soccer is the best BECAUSE YOU GET TO RUN ALL THE TIME!”
Life on a Colorado Farm 