On a Fast Plane and Step 7 (By Myself)

DH left at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday. 

After a day of visiting, and making sure everything is packed (rider truck, pulling a large camp trailer- Dodge Truck pulling a trailer) they left early Sunday morning.  

At the time of this posting they are now drawing close to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

IN THE MEAN TIME

 

 

The last photos I wanted to show you of irrigation are the photos of the head gate.  The magical (scary), roaring, thundering, (frightening)  place where the canal water enters into our farm

 

 

 

 

This is the head gate!  And that little slit is the amount of water we water with all year. 

 

Although, you’ve seen the siphon tube set up, you are now looking at MY siphon tube set up in the 25 acre hay field.  I wanted to show you this because hay is watered with every furrow, while corn is every other row.

This field’s rows are so long it takes three tubes per row to propel the water to the very end.

 

 

And so you know what an imprinted row looks like, you will see that it is sealed over making it easier to get the water down the next time. 

Once the field is cultivated we have to start over getting the rows to seal, yet let water through.  This is a circle= water, cultivate, water until the plants are too tall, then we just hope the seal holds and the water makes it to the end of the furrow.  It usually does, but if we have a horrible drought and the water is cut back sometimes ….

 

 

 

 

 

Fuzzy and I are doing okay.  We had a pipe split, but DH can fix it when he returns.  Until then we will just move the water to another field and water something else.