Yep, Christmas has just past, and yesterday was the New Year…but I’m ready for Spring.
Very ready!
Temps were -10* this morning with -18* for tomorrow….this is what I HATE about winter…the bitter cold.
But, my mailbox is filling up
I sit dreaming about warmth, vibrant plants and flowers… Where I’m going to put them and how they are going to look.
Then what I’m going to do with them after they come into their own.
Hooray for SEED Catalogs!
Linda
Yesterday a very brisk, cold wind blew the clouds out of the way, leaving us with a very, VERY crisp day.
This morning we are in another winter weather storm watch.
BUT…look at this!!!
As the wind was blowing one storm away from us I saw an extremely rare site.
(At least for me in this part of the world)
A winter rainbow in the west…
I was extremely trilled!
Linda
I’m getting a tad tired of all the clouds
Although, there is snow on the mountains and around us.
Dreary is well….dreary!
But today…this morning…I CAN SEE SOME SUN…so I’m heading out for a walk.
Happy Monday!!!
Linda
Alas, our above normal December temperatures have fallen to ‘normal’.
This is the high yesterday. Which really was much colder as we had a sharp wind with the cold, so the wind chill needed to be factored in.
Even as cold as this was Fuzzy wanted to stay outside, although Boomer didn’t.
Sam didn’t stay in much either, preferring the outdoors, then sitting by the wood stove when he came in, then back out he would go.
Monkey, made a wild dash out the door, only once,
When I went out to do something.
This is what I saw when I came back.
Although, I know cold is relative, this is cold to us
The temperature when I got up today.
And it will only get worse as the days wind down to the solstice on December 21st.
Will that be the end of the world?!?!?
I have know idea.
I do know that after the solstice, the days will start to grow longer again and the temperatures even colder and colder until we hit March.
Which seems like a very long time from now.
Oh, well. Cold like this is really hard on the bugs, which can be a good thing next summer!
Linda
I was excused from work this day.
Told I wasn’t needed.
Said it would go faster now and I could stay at the house and get ‘stuff’ done there.
I didn’t complain.
He was right.
When I went up in the late after noon he was over half-way done.
He thinks he will finish up today…tomorrow at the latest.
Which is good, because we are supposed to have a rain storm Thursday(tomorrow) and snow of Saturday.
If he can get done today the rain will help settle the soil around the pipe and into the trench. After that we will know how much dirt we will have to bring up from the back side of the place to fill in what has settled.
Linda
The morning sunlight is always a welcome site, when a person gets up before the dawn.
Gradually the sun starts to light up the sky. (The flash of the camera made enough light you can see all the fore-ground ‘stuff’)
As I open up the hen house, feed the chickens, put out new water for them, the sky show more and more light.
By the time I get all the firewood loaded and heading back to the house to start up the fire
The day has arrived.
Then I forgot to go back out and get the sun actually up, because I got busy with the fire and starting breakfast.
What a glorious world we live in!
Tomorrow we start digging up ONE of the transmission ditches and laying down pipe. Should make for a lot easier season farming next year.
(Oh, yes, Terry has decided to farm one more year. Are we surprised? Although, he is still pondering if he should do pinto beans..they take a huge amount of energy (his) at harvest time.)
And, of course, if there is water to farm with!
Have a really nice Sunday!
Linda
The windy, sleet-filled, blustery, bitter cold storm has moved on. The last two nights have been very cold but beautiful. When out getting wood or checking on something the sky is a delight of twinkling stars in the deep, deep frozen sky.
The dogs always sleep in the house when it’s winter time, but Fuzzy much prefers outside in his dog house, he will open the back door and go out — I will find him there and ask him to come back in. He always comes, but if he gets too hot out he goes again.
Boomer has very little fur so he very much enjoys the house routine.
As it warms up (at night and in the daytime) they both like being outside, as there is so MUCH to do while others sleep, you see.
I have to force them to come in, soon Fuzzy is outside and Boomer is panting at the door to be let out. (He can’t figure out how to open the door—just push Boom, just push)
Anyway, as the storm played around with our area, a gentle little rainbow glowed over our neighbors metal building.
We were lucky enough to see it!
( I hope you can see it)
I was lucky enough to have the camera ready.
The temps this morning were around 18* (at 5 A.M.). The weather guy says we are going to have a small warm- up before the next storm comes in sometime next week.
Thank all of you for your support and also for your understanding of what a fool and a jerk that man was Sunday at Wal-Mart!
Linda
It’s terribly cold here! As you can see….wind chill is zero. Not much snow and it’s a dry snow right here on the farm.
Although, we can see lots and lots of snow on the mountains surrounding us….which is wonderful! The farmers in our area have been told that, unless we get lots of snow in the mountains there will be no water for the farmers next year.
Towns and cities come first, then however the call of the water happens in the rank of seniority.
Please pray and cross your fingers and your toes and whatever else that we get lots and lots of wet snow in the mountains. Please also add in that this horrible drought, which has effected all the states in the mid-west and the west ends. Food is a precious thing.
Yes, I am well aware that food will still come in from other countries, but local food is always best.
And Yes, I know that I am also saying, that with local food the local industry of farming stays solid and whole. Another dust bowl is not something the United States needs or should ever want.
But I should not preach to choir, as all of you loyal readers know and understand the plight.
So I will get off my soap box and show you….
My 4 O’clock photo. You can see the snow is starting to fall. For two days we have had terrible bitter wind and sleet and rain. Then the snow.
The 10-day forecast shows us warming up starting tomorrow. This has been a brief taste of winter….the snow is most welcome.
Please enjoy your Sunday, and Thanks for visiting our blog. I will try not to whine too much about winter as I KNOW WE NEED THE SNOW!
🙂 🙂 🙂
Linda
Mom said it was time—I didn’t believe her so I pretended that I didn’t hear—then she said—“Come on Fuzzy, it’s TIME!”
So Boomer and I had to go!
And it was EARLY IN THE DAY!
I mean, like really early. 9:00 in the morning!
Well, too early for me for what we had to go do!
Shudder, shudder, tremble, and shake!
Of course Boomer didn’t have any trouble with going.
He never does!
Just the word GO gets his attention and he is ready.
I’m usually that way, but I just had this feeling this time that Mom was up to something.
I pretended not to hear her.
Finally, I came and we went.
Yep! I was right!
We had to go GET A BATH!!!!
I HATE BATHS!!!!
I HATE BEING AWAY FROM MOM!
I don’t cry or bark or try to bite, I just shiver and shake until Mom shows back up.
Now Boomer, Heck He Enjoys The Whole Experience….the drive there, the new smells, talking to the other dogs, rolling in the water and getting shampooed, his ears cleaned, the doggie blow-dryer, the WHOLE EXPERIENCE!!!
Now me…I LOVE when MOM comes. I then whine and bark little happy yippy barks and RUN to the truck!!
When it comes to going HOME from the GROOMERS I’m first to the truck, you can bet you it!
Fuzzy
Lovely, thirst quenching rain. Although, Fuzzy panicked and ran into the corn field with all the thunder and the lightening. It took me about an hour to get him to come out. Boomer stayed with him the whole time. Both dogs were wet, and muddy and soaked. They got to sleep on the back porch until they both decided it was way too hot for them and went outside around two this morning.
It is still cloudy here, although not raining. Everything looks so happy and clean outside. Rain is a blessing. It’ s just hard to have it rain during harvest.
(And YES, we do have weeds….)
Whenever it rains I always think of that wonderful little song from Disney—
Linda
Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day:
And the rain rain rain came down down down
So Piglet started bailing.
He was unaware, atop his chair,
While bailing he was sailing!
And the rain rain rain came down down down
And the flood rose up up upper.
Pooh, too, was caught and so he thought,
“I must rescue my supper!”
Ten honey pots he rescued,
Enough to see him through,
But as he sopped up his supper,
The river sopped up Pooh!
And the water twirled and tossed him
In a honey pot canoe!
The rain rain rain came down down down…
Life on a Colorado Farm 