Didn’t post last night since I spent the afternoon and evening babysitting for Brandon and Megan. It was their anniversary, and they deserved a nice night out… I won’t blog any about what I spent most of the day working on myself… just let it be said that 60 year old plumbing is gross and…
Tag: water
Bats and Owls and Starlight
For the past few weeks, our neighbor has been drilling a water well. It quickly became apparent we weren’t used to strange lights in our neighborhood at night! You could top the hill up the road a mile or two, and wonder at the glowing reflection on the red cliffs and hills. I mean, this…
Got It Here
We, or I should say, the guys, have been busy helping the neighbors with a water project. There usually isn’t a summer when we don’t work on water projects somewhere to some extent! Blame that on living in Wyoming where 14″ of rainfall is the norm, and we’ve been in a drought for some years!…
En Garde
Someone said to me the other day, “Isn’t it ironic the overabundance of water this spring has cost us the shortage of water this summer?” Translation: Our irrigation of our fields is now JUST STARTING. Vernon and the boys have worked and worked and hired LARGE excavators to repair and replace ditches, headgates, crossings, and…
Ice #2: The Movie
To continue our icy theme this week… Here is the video from Christmas Day… To start… the guys chop the ice out of the tank while cows wait for a drink in the background. The last half of this video is more along the lines of my “Naturewalk” ideas… I take a panoramic shot of…
Water is Flowing
It’s that time of year… Snow has fallen on the mountaintops. Drifts lay across the roads. Any cattle left up high are finding their own ways down the mountain… or cowboys are bundling up and riding in the snow. Been there. Done that. Our cattle are halfway down the mountain in our Mesa pasture… but…
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…
Rife Ram Pump II
So sorry about last night! I just couldn’t stay up long enough to win the fight with my computer and/or GoDaddy to load my pics! This entry is nothing without its pictures! So let me start again. Our ramp pump lifts water up out of the 500′ Otter Creek Canyon without electricity. It simply uses…
Rife Ram Pump
Today we revisited an ongoing project. I mentioned it multiple times last August… beginning here. But for those of you unwilling to read last year’s entries, here’s a quick refresher… Our Mesa Pasture has no live water on it. Well, it does… but it comes from 500′ deep Otter Creek Canyon. In the 1940’s, Greets…
Time Saved
We’ve been plagued with breakdowns of equipment… it’s frustrating for the guys. I can’t help much. I’m good for finding a 3/8″ wrench, and passing it to them… but other than that… I cook meals. So I asked what they needed help with today and I was sent out to expand the water gap. It’d…
Back to the Lost World
We went back to the Lost World again today… The main focus for today was lowering the electrical conduit down the side of the canyon to connect our new 1.5 horse pump (which will be in the bottom next to our ram pump) to our generator (which will be on top). The plan was for…