On occasion, I wander down and help the guys with this project. For years, Brandon has been fighting with an old corrugated pipe at the beginning of his irrigation ditch. Over the past few days, they’ve ripped out the old, replaced with new, and hopefully made this more efficient. It stretches from here… clear through…
Tag: irrigation
Pre-Winter Items
It’s our most successful fundraiser for the library, but I’m glad the Harvest Dinner is over, it seems to really keep us hopping! Now we have to do our regular work, clear the book sale, get ready for judging our Dia de Los Muertos skulls and enjoy the Halloween parade from the school kids. Whoever…
Heads Up – continued
I started this little story on irrigation preparation yesterday… You might want to read this entry first. Vernon had to jump into the creek with his shovel… more to test the depth of what he’d already cleaned out than to actually shovel! The dam consists of a large log which we drift into place. Supposedly,…
Heads Up
Ha. I am back to being Top Hand again… just like the old days. The boys have taken a short “break” (more on that in the future – maybe!) and so, I step back in as a pitiful and weak substitute. But I’m all Vernon has, so he makes do. Today he was bound and…
Horribly Tough Job
With the weather finally kicked into summer gear, we are all running around… trying to finish up this and start that… repair this so that will work… figure out how to do this and get it done before the sun goes down! My list has grown now to include the outdoor stuff. Last year I…
Third Look at Irrigating!
I know. The plan was for wedding photos. Victoria and Matt were here… we looked at them… then… somehow… in the case they left me… was TimeLife’s “Country’s Got Heart” CD. OOPS. So… Victoria assures me my CD will be mailed to me… Today for a poor substitute is my third (and most likely FINAL)…
Second Look at Irrigating
Welcome to all my new readers… seems as if there’s been a surge in my popularity lately… and I want you to know I appreciate each one of you! Either that or my regulars have been reading and re-reading this little agricultural blog! And if that’s it… you are My Heroes! Thanks! I hope you…
Drenched
I know many of you have enjoyed the wedding and its stories… and when I get a chance at posting the professional’s photos next week, I’ll return to a few more tales. Since I was a tad bit busy, I didn’t get to take many more photos than what you’ve seen already and you know…
Dam
One thing about living on a ranch… you’ll have a variety of jobs to keep you occupied. Cowboy one day… Farmer the next… Mechanic… Plumber… Inventor… Vet… Fence builder… Irrigator… Dam engineer… Those days when you ride so hard and so long don’t end when the cowboying is done. You often go put in more…