And the lilacs are blooming!
Plus everywhere I get to pick up plastic shopping bags! Even in the lilac bushes! The wind has been amazing this year, bringing with it dust, dirt, mud rain, and other people’s trash.
As long as there is snow in the mountains surrounding us we will have wind, but once the visible [...]
(This is a grain drill)
Yesterday the new alfalfa field was planted,
(Alfalfa seed)
(With oats as a mother crop)
marked out and water started on it.
Talli came for supper
Then until 10 pm we worked on making more siphon tubes
This weekend looks even busier with the planting of the garden. Spring is my favorite seson, but I do get [...]
Blade is such a hardy little fellow. And so completely up for any challenge. He finished the soccer season
And is now trying to learn how to set tubes, he can do the gated pipe as long as we are there if something doesn’t work just right.
His little 7 year-old hand is just not quite large [...]
And of course it always helps to have HELP in blowing out lots of candles.
The bulls are not allowed to run with the cows year round, for lots of reasons (according to what we have found out)-they lose interest, the cows don’t want them around (they are busy munching and growing babies), and the bulls get bored and start tearing up things.
So the bulls go to their own pen.
Interestingly [...]
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!
