We had 750 bales of hay still to go to its new life as feed
Last week and Monday
It was loaded out and hauled away
Finished.
Whew!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Last of the Last, Tuesday, October 12, 2021
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Tag Archives: Tuesday
Blood Red — Not Good — Ever, Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Skies like these are a distant memory, anymore
This is what our skies look like
Most of the time…smoke sinking into each and everything
Sometimes a tad worse than other times
Once in a while, a slight breeze lightens the smoke
But, more often than not, the sun is stained dazzlingly red, red, red
As it sinks below the edge of the Uncompahgre Plateau.
We so need rain.
As does every place else in the dry, combusting west.
Sigh,
From my world to your heart,
Linda
Quiet Days — the Kind that Leaves No Mark, Tuesday, August 3, 2021
It’s been raining here,
Little showers of delight
Our air, ground, and souls cooling way down
Making a person think it might be Autumn
It makes me feel like Fall
Time racing forward
That summer will be over (too) fast.
Moments racing ahead…
The rain is nice, it’s actually making puddles
Still…over there — just beyond
Is Fall…
Autumn
The cool down, just before
Ah, well…until then
Our days go Quietly forward…
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
Thankfully! Thank You Ever so Much, for your Prayers, Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Terry is starting to feel so much better now. It’s been a huge long-haul, but we are making it.
Six Doctors, four trips to the emergency room, a three-day stay in the hospital, then an operation for gallbladder, plus thyroid medication, plus finally being able to eat again…(he lost 20 pounds) the corner to health is being turned.
What a huge marvelous blessing!
I am so grateful for all your prayers, good wishes, hand-holding across the internet, and hugs both near and far.
You are all such wonderful caring people!
From my heart to your heart,
Linda
A Tiny News Report — Water, Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Our area—not just where we live and farm
But our whole area, everything below the Grand Mesa, areas fed from the Gunnison River and the Uncompahgre River
Are being rationed for irrigation water.
Some places have already been told they will have NO water and domestic water is also being monitored
You see there has not been enough snow in the mountains for the last two years (longer in some areas)
The snow this year will melt into the ground and fill the underground lakes and streams and possibly the lakes and reservoirs
Hopefully the lakes and reservoirs.
The water managers have begun rationing…
It’s early…very early…usually rationing doesn’t start until the heat of summer.
Water—-it’s on everyone’s lips. A nagging concern in the back of everyone’s mind. And constant management on all farms with all farmers.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
We Started Getting Ready to Start the Water onto the Farm — Tuesday, April 6, 2021
“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. Cities are but branches of the tree of National Life, the roots of which go deep into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”–Bernard Baruch
Terry made the ditches Saturday for the whole farm.
Then we worked on the new section of ditch, which will hold gated pipe.
It took some doing,
But we ‘got’er done’, as my Daddy would have said.
Lots of leveling, lifting, and pushing together.
Whew! Long day, but it felt good to have everything in place.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Unexpected, Tuesday, October 6, 2020
While, out-and-about, looking for things to photograph
I had one of these,
Startle and fly into the air.
I scared the pheasant, but I must admit, it also scared me!
Gradually, breathing again, the land, the pheasant and I returned to normal.
🙂 🙂
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
On a Golden Day Called Sunday, Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The Canadian Geese are back…winging their way over our farm
The days are full of delightful sunshine, gliding the land in gold.
So for a wee treat, we took our daughter, Kimberly, and son-in-law, Cliff, up to Cedaredge, Colorado, to Roxy and Bob Morris’, Red Mountain Ranch Store and Tasting Room where we had frozen apple cider slushies.
Then on the way back, we visited Heart’s Basin, where, LOW and BEHOLD(!), we saw a pelican fishing for its dinner!
What a lovely treat of a day!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
A Chill Seeps Onto the Farm Each and Every Night Now, Tuesday, September 8, 2020
The morning air is cool almost cold now.
Although, we have been warming up into the 100’s (again) in the afternoons.
I’ve been out-and-about taking photos of the wildlife (if I can find them)
Leaving the little Beeglie at home resting.
The smoke is back —thick (see above) and miserable
So without further ado
I will give you my wee collection
Of the critters
Who, like us, are harvesting and
Prepping
For winter
And yes
I do take out treats to feed some of them
But, of course
I don’t feed all of them
The little hummers are leaving us now.
I’m down from 12 feeders to two.
Well, there you have it.
A small collection of fun creatures who share the farm with us.
Yep!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
When the Corn is in the Silk, —The Deer Come Back to the Farm, Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Now that the corn is in the silk, the deer migrate back to the farm.
So I sat up a couple of game cameras to see if, and when, they had arrived
Deer are notorious for eating the silk off the little corn ears.
Corn has lots of predators—
Bugs, humans, skunks, raccoons, and DEER!
Yep…Here they are. 🙂 We love seeing them. Terry worries about the corn loss, but we don’t do anything about it. Some for them, some for us, is our thought.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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