Your western Colorado farm friend | Life on a Colorado Farm

We had a pretty amazing wind yesterday. Ripped the plastic off my chicken house pen, flung some of the lawn stuff here and there. The weather people said the wind would come up at noon and die down around nine in the evening. They were close…the wind came up about one o’clock and died sometime way after I went to be around ten.

Yesterday morning we had this

Yep!

There are always those who think they must burn….always.

That afternoon we had dust and smoke and wind, mixed with some clouds coming in from the west. You can still see some of the smoke drifting around in the hollow just below our mesa.

Sigh!

So far nothing on our farm burned and as far as I can tell no one around us lost anything. I did hear the firetrucks go out in the late afternoon. Thank Heaven for the Volunteer Firemen!

Poor old Fuzz-Dude about blew away. He also was a huge magnate for all the trash that was flying in the air.

It’s still blowing today. It also looks like storms are playing around in the mountains. Storms made up of rain.

Wind is so very important to help the plants bring the sap up from the roots that I work really hard with myself to not get too carried away with Not Liking the Wind. I even have been known to stand out in it and pretend I know what kite feels like. For today, we have a sap rising wind, a few very cold storms and a small cold front which leaves tonight sometime.

I hope you all have a good day….

Your Western Colorado Farm Friend,

Linda

Not a lot happening here. I got the trucks cleaned and ready to go, plus our car and Terry’s pickup. I thought if I was cleaning the everyday vehicles I might as well get the grain truck and the Dodge spruced up and ready for work.

After a long day I can say they are done!

Today Terry will take a corn sample down to see the moisture content. Some of the guys have started combining…the ones that store their corn and sell it later. I drove by the Elevator and saw a semi unloading so there are those that are dry enough to begin. I don’t think he really wants to start until November 1st, but (between you and me) if the corn is ready he will have a hard time waiting. 🙂 🙂

I added a link so you can see the whole process from beginning to end here on our little farm. Some of you have already seen this, or live where it is happening, but I know there are others that are new to my blog, or live in places where the corn doesn’t grow.

Today I ~~have~~ want to tackle my office and all the paperwork sitting there waiting for me to do something about it. What a drag, but it has to be done so I had better get to moving on it.