Photos from last week

There was a tornado warning for the next county east last week. Tornado warnings are very rare in Idaho, averaging less than on per year. This is the storm that caused all the excitement. This photo was taken looking SES.

A few days earlier I took a walk around the farm, and took pictures with my phone.

The quality is far from great, but you get an idea of the variety of crops and irrigation techniques we use. The first image is a field that is water by siphon tubes, a form of gravity flow irrigation. I will give more detail about it in a later post.

Both images below show a field irrigated by sprinkler pipe. The examples shown are wheel lines. Named because of the wheels that aid in moving the pipe. The last photo shows two wheel lines that are twisted together. This field had yet to be irrigated for the year because of the unusually wet spring weather.

JHN

I - D - A - H - O!

I am finally back to Idaho. While walking around the farm this morning I took a few pictures on my Blackberry. I am still figuring out the best way to get them onto here.

Now that I'm back I will try to post frequently.

Update

My blog quickly became my last priority while I was substitute teaching, working my day job, and searching for a full time teaching position.
A full time teaching job became an adventure that has taken me to teach in South Dakota.
I'll be back to Idaho in late May, again on the job hunt, this time maybe not teaching, but I will begin blogging again once I'm in the treasure valley.