The chickens are learning everyday that being ‘out of the box’ is wonderful! There are bugs to eat, grasshoppers to catch, and green things to peck on.
That taking a bath can be very rewarding. (This rooster just finished fluffing around in the loose dirt, and was resting when I took his photo). He was a [...]
One nice thing about have kids living close by is the fact that they live close enough to come for supper.
The rain is a good thing for the lawn. It takes me an hour on a riding lawnmower, and even longer to water it.
A neighbor at the end of our country mile is growing sunflowers. Sunflowers are new to our area, so there is only about 10 acres being grown. It is going to be interesting to see how harvest goes and if more are grown next year.
One thing farmers love is good sale, but it also looks like ‘car guys’ like a good sale also.
A neighbor of ours who is a salvage/collector/??? held an auction. The road was packed with interested car part buyers, making our little farming area hum with big trucks and assorted vehicles from local and out of state [...]
If you can’t find it, make it!
All Farmers must have been chickens (or birds) in a former life, for work begins at dawn…..
then ends at dark.
And sometimes that statement isn’t true, for if the water is short, then it has to be changed DURING the night.
Also, if the hay is cut, and the dew is JUST RIGHT, then out into the [...]
What IS this nasty weed? Some people call is scour weed, some people call it snake grass, and I have heard others call it horse tail, but whatever it is it needs to go away!
Now, how to make it disappear got any ideas?
Then on the way home, we drove the ‘back road’ from Cedaredge into Delta, where a wonderland exists for dirt back riders, and other people who like to play on these barren hills.
The road up the side of the ‘hill’ offers a delightful view of the valley below.
I spent several summers on the mesa as a child, having the luxury to live there from June until Labor Day. It was a time of great connection to the land.
Of course I have not been back for several years, [...]
I live on a farm in Colorado, the western side of Colorado, called Delta.
Farming, as a way of life, is fast disappearing in western Colorado, due to farms being sold to developers/subdivisions.
Therefore, I decided to share with anyone who was interested, what farm life is/was like in my lifetime.
I can honestly say that I now understand what the American Indian felt like as he watched his way of life disappearing!
