Want to see what Seventy burning candles look like on a cake?  🙂

(Blade said the heat was very hot on his face. 🙂 )

The grandchildren insisted we have seventy fully lit candles for Grandpa.  It took a lot of fast starting of candles and a VERY slow walk for Bladen to bring the cake into for Grandpa to blow all of them out.

Linky thought she better bring a spray bottle of water, because she was just SURE Grandpa couldn’t blow ALL THOSE OUT AT ONCE!!!

But he Did!

Tally grabbed Grandpa and looked him in the eye and said, (very seriously) “I knew you could do it, Grandpa.”   The faith of a child.

We have finally gotten all the corn ground wet and are watering the alfalfa for the second time this year.  Next we will start on the pinto bean ground.

Terry should start marking it out either today or tomorrow.

After the ground is totally soaked, we wait a week for it to dry down, then Terry will got in plant.  This is called wet planting.

There are two kinds of planting…dry and wet.  In dry planting you get the ground ready and plant the seed, then you water the seed up.  We like the wet planting, since the ground is already wet the seed starts to sprout immediately. Weeds are easier to manage, because the planter ‘weeds’ as the seeds are planted.  We are in for ease. 🙂

The word from the Ditch Company is the reservoirs are completely ice free and rising quickly. (Except for Taylor Park) The water level at Blue Mesa Reservoir has risen 16 feet in the last few weeks and is expected to fill within 5 feet of the reservoir top! WHOO HOO!!

Although, we are not not drought stricken this year, we will continue, as we always have, to practice good water management.  But not having to really worry about the water is —well—nice!

Thanks for stopping by. It’s always good to have a visit with friends.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda