Chasing Dragons— June 1, 2014

I got this idea from reading Thoughts from the Road’s post on His Chasing Dragons!

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A while back Terry and I saw this really cool Dragon.  It was way up on a hillside.

Flick  Even further up was something strange and orange and like a flick of flame or something.

Or I have no idea what it was supposed to be…food, dragon flame?  Who knows.  I’ll let you decide.  It was so far up it was really hard to tell…looked just like an orange dot.  I had to take a photo of it to see what it was.  After enhancing the photo I still don’t know.

pThe days are warm (hot) and lovely here.  Although, we are experiencing lots of wind, I don’t mind.  Terry did hook up the swamp cooler so the house could stay relatively free of blowing dirt.  When the fine dust/dirt gets into the house I’m rather discouraged, as it means I have to dust…I am not a fan of dusting.

I would rather—vacuum, sweep, mop, clean closets and drawers, wash windows, paint the house inside and out, weed the yard, do anything in the yard, irrigate on the farm…you name it—than dust!

(But I do dust, I hope you understand…it is just right up there with eating boiled okra.)

SherbertTerry got the pinto beans in the ground yesterday!  Yippee!  We are three weeks behind on everything because of the cold wet weather we have had.  It isn’t just us behind, everyone is behind.

Rowing-outThe corn is up and rowing out, it should make it to ‘knee-high by the 4th of July’—always the goal.  If it makes that tall by that time it will make before any killing freezes occur.

“Time marches on”  As my Momma would say…here it is the 1st day of June.  Happy June 1st everyone!

Your farm friend,

Linda

 

 

 

 

Signs of Spring March 5, 2014

SpringsThe tiny little bits of fluffy green are the alfalfa plants waking up from a long winter’s sleep.

Terry starts disking today, which means Mr. Davis will be moving his cows out — probably this week end.

The farm work has to start now so the ground will be ready for water on April 1st.  The ditch company turns the water into all the canals the last week of March.  Therefore, ground work MUST begin now.

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The cows have gotten so use to Terry and I riding or walking out to check on them they don’t even get excited enough to move.

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Come on Number 22, you need to move over!    Scoot!

cow-e  That is close enough!  Now Scoot!!  Clap, clap!  Sigh!

Finally….

She turned  and moseyed on into the corn field!

Fences

In two years these little cuties will be back, ready to have some little ones of their own.

As you can see, we will be fixing fence as soon as the cows leave–they are a tad hard on them.

Off now to get some outside work done.

From a western Colorado farm,

Linda