Northern Farmer

Yesterday we went to town, not the city, to get a few things because it was raining and lightening out. And yes, I had the computer unplugged. It’ll be a while before I get lazy on that job. We were coming home and a few miles from home we met an Amish buggy going down the road. That surprised me because the nearest Amish that I knew of are around twenty five miles away. And that’s a little out of range for a horse and buggy on that kind of day. Well, doing a little detective work I found out some have moved in a few miles away. And they’ve been there a few months. My wife has been telling me that she’s been seeing them in a little town three miles away at the creamery. And all this time I thought she was seeing things. I’ll have to start listening to her a little more closely from now on.

I sure do welcome them here and it’ll be nice to see horses farming close by again. Hopefully we can start doing business with them and it would be nice to do some horse trading. I know they’ll come out on top in horse trading, a little more experience than I have. But ya gotta start somewhere, eh? Next Saturday the established Amish twenty five miles from here are having a huge “Amish Auction”. Hoping to make it just to learn some more about their type of farming. I’ve dealt with a couple families for a few years over there and have a huge respect for the way they do business. It has always been a pleasure and I sure do like the way they have their farms setup. Last spring I had to wait a bit at one’s place and was watching some of the family doing field work with their horses. It was so, so quiet and peaceful. My wife said I came home a little “strange” and haven’t quite lost the glow since then.

Maybe the Lord put me in that spot to open my eyes somewhat about how things can be done and done well without running the modern rat race. I know it did change me alot. Many times when I post these thoughts are behind many of the things I’m posting about. The peace in the landscape that an agrarian simple living style brings. I hope to live to see the day when the country roads out here have a good share of their traffic horsedrawn. And not only by the Amish, but by most of the country folk. A countryside with productive small farms and home industries. The suburbian culture forgotten and abandoned. “Modern” churches abandoned for good Christian Churches dotting the countyside. This is my dream.

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