I just realized that this past week I wasn’t overwhelmed with work. Praise the Lord!! Things are so dry here that it’s hard to describe. We are so far behind on rain. The pastures are shot. There is hardly any second crop hay at all. I’ve been bringing hay out to some of the cows, [...]
This family is on the slow but sure journey to simplicity. It humbles me to know that we are in agreement. At one time I thought it impossible to scale down the way we live. I’m not sure scaled down is the proper word, but will use it anyhow. Now slowly more and more ideas [...]
It finally is starting to cool off around here again. Ninety plus degrees has been the norm this summer and I’m getting a little tired of it. But now it’s around seventy and a little cloudy out and it feels a whole lot better. I was driving the tractor with hayrake the other day heading [...]
I had the privilage of growing up in a small mid Minnesota community in the last half of the fifties and early sixties. The town was then and is now between six and seven hundred in population. In fact it is right in the heart of the mythical land of Lake Wobegon as heard on [...]
A response in a post below from Kansas Milkmaid is hard hitting, but so true,
” I see God working through small alternative farmers to build a great army. While it is a loney movement, one that estranges us from even church family it is one that is very powerful and effective for God. There [...]
Sometimes I do wonder about what the heck is going on in this world. I almost hate to do it because it gets a guy down if he’s not careful. Seems like every direction a person turns there’s something or somebody out there that hates farmers, especially self suffficient ones, agrarian types. It seems like [...]
Well, we finished combining last evening and as of now the straw is baled. And no breakdowns! I did plug up the old combine last evening though which is good for an hour of hard labor. But it’s all done. Now to continue on with making hay and the daily battle of wits with the [...]
We’re almost done with small grain harvest this evening and might finish up tommorrow. There’s rain in the forcast and that’s fine with me, I’d gladly take a day or two off of harvest and haymaking if there’d be a rain. Today was 95 degrees with high humidity and very little wind, the fourth day [...]