What's Happening in the Country

September 24, 2013

      Within a half mile of my home there can be a variety of activities in rural Wyoming.  A hayfield awaits bailing, perhaps drying more; a corn field is being chopped as silage, not mature enough to become picked whole kernel corn; the last digging of a ditch from well to arm irrigator occurs with laying pipe to follow; a set of keys is found again by me along a gravel road.  No one picked it up in the week since I first found it. I think I’ll take it to the high school to see if anyone in the office recognizes the picture attached, taken in 2010.   

        From the outside, driving down the highway, not much seems to be happening, but really, a little of this and a little of that makes up the world of farming and daily walks.

July 26, 2013.  A Day in the Country
        Irrigation agriculture has probably changed just as all of life has.  That became clear the other morning when I was walking the dog. I stopped to visit with a farmer who was waiting for the irrigation water to “come down.”  Typical July day.
        Even though there are more pickup trucks than there used to be (we even had two for a few years for our almost three acres),  neither of us was in a truck.  I was leisurely walking the dog (a city girl living outside of town) and my neighbor was on a four wheeler.  Instead of shutting off my truck motor, I shut off the iPod music. 
         Our discussion was typical: how long the water would last, who was wasting water, the history of the irrigation district.
         Lesson learned - As things change, they really stay the same.