Having a Great Time
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010The past two weekends have been wonderful. Other than the fact that I have to come back to Denver. It’s really difficult for me to do when I’m way out in the middle of no where and driving to the heart of downtown Denver for a massage. I unloaded my bags, but didn’t even have time to take off my boots and change into something more practical for walking. My massage was wonderful, but seriously…..I was in a funk coming back to all the hustle and bustle. People everywhere downtown in rush hour. Yikes! That was not easy for me. I felt like someone took me from Denver and placed me in Beijing.
I’m a country girl, living in a huge city, with a possible light at the end of the tunnel. Mystery and I are having so much fun together. Farm work is tough. I realize now what it’s like. Up super early and work until lunch, take a lunch break and then work until about 5. Come home take a nap, wake up eat dinner, and then go back out at crazy times…..like midnight to 2 to work. It really depends on the crops. I hope I got some great photos of the combine’s working in one field harvesting Barley for Coors. The combine is such a huge machine. From the drivers seat in the middle of the cab, the “head” is the part that cuts the stalks of grain down. The head is 15 feet long on either side of where the driver sits. A HUGE ASS machine. It was too wet after a sample cutting, and putting the grain into a little machine that tells you how much moisture you have in the grain. I think about 99% of farming revolves around weather. Dew point, humidity, rain, heat etc. If that doesn’t get you, weeds or bugs might. It’s a huge gamble. The gamble is paying off for Mystery this year in a big way with is hay, oats and barley fields. The big HUGE bales that way a ton???? There are almost 200 in one field and it’s a pretty small field. It’s amazing the amount of production. He has 300 tons of hay already sold. Cool!
I have to go to work. I will try to post later today. I have a super slow day today. My motorcycle quit on me the other day. That is a story in itself, but I need to work on that today too. It might be a fuse, but I don’t know where the fuses are on that bike, so I have to check it all out.





