Comments on: Winter Blues http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/ The thoughts and journal of a Christian farm family. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:25:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Northern Farmer http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Northern Farmer Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:05:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-452 Folks, I was going to go down the list and thank you all personally, but the list is huge! So I ask you to forgive me if I do a group thankyou. And to you folks that commented for the first time, welcome! I promise not to shake you all up, at least for a while, like this again. God Bless, Tom Folks,
I was going to go down the list and thank you all personally, but the list is huge! So I ask you to forgive me if I do a group thankyou. And to you folks that commented for the first time, welcome! I promise not to shake you all up, at least for a while, like this again. God Bless,

Tom

]]> By: KSMILKMAID http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-451 KSMILKMAID Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:18:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-451 Good, Tom: I am so glad I sent the stuff to the right person. I didn't have your name connected with the email address. As glitchy as computers are, I often wonder if sometimes things don't get sent to the wrong people sometimes. I am excited to see the support here too. I wish it were in the real not virtual world. But, I am thankful for the blessings from others. It is warming up around here. It is just below freezing. A heat wave will be expected the next few days here. 50 degrees. Just got finished with milking some of the ladies. There is nothing like that barn yard smell. Seriously a well balanced barnyard has a beautiful smell. Better yet, there is nothing like a date with my guy while milking cows. I know it is unusual, sure beats traveling to town and witnessing the circus. Busy day ahead on this little farm. We have sold out of milk four days in a row. Friday will be a heavy day as well as Saturday. So, we will sell out four days this week and it will be a close one today to. Blessings Tom!! Good, Tom: I am so glad I sent the stuff to the right person. I didn’t have your name connected with the email address. As glitchy as computers are, I often wonder if sometimes things don’t get sent to the wrong people sometimes.

I am excited to see the support here too. I wish it were in the real not virtual world. But, I am thankful for the blessings from others.

It is warming up around here. It is just below freezing. A heat wave will be expected the next few days here. 50 degrees. Just got finished with milking some of the ladies. There is nothing like that barn yard smell. Seriously a well balanced barnyard has a beautiful smell. Better yet, there is nothing like a date with my guy while milking cows. I know it is unusual, sure beats traveling to town and witnessing the circus.

Busy day ahead on this little farm. We have sold out of milk four days in a row. Friday will be a heavy day as well as Saturday. So, we will sell out four days this week and it will be a close one today to. Blessings Tom!!

]]> By: Herrick Kimball http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Herrick Kimball Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:53:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-450 * Well... I missed a day of blog reading and come back to this! What a great outpouring of support and I do want to add my encouragement to everyone's else. I truly appreciate the effort you put into your blog, Tom. Take a short break from it all if need be, but please don't break the connection we have developed here. The Lord is working through this internet community. *

Well… I missed a day of blog reading and come back to this!

What a great outpouring of support and I do want to add my encouragement to everyone’s else. I truly appreciate the effort you put into your blog, Tom. Take a short break from it all if need be, but please don’t break the connection we have developed here. The Lord is working through this internet community.

]]> By: Northern Farmer http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Northern Farmer Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:35:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-449 Wow, what can I say? I know one thing, I ain't blogging no more about the winter blues, after I see the all the trouble I caused. You folks are some good ones, let me tell you. More than humbling, wow. I'll get back to everyone of you in the next day or so and KSMM, I recieved your books two chapters and will read them soon. Been in a whirl around here today with cattle work and butchering and all the normal stuff besides. I gotta get back out and finish up then head for the hills to church. Just warming my feet now. Wow, what can I say?
I know one thing, I ain’t blogging no more about the winter blues, after I see the all the trouble I caused. You folks are some good ones, let me tell you. More than humbling, wow. I’ll get back to everyone of you in the next day or so and KSMM, I recieved your books two chapters and will read them soon. Been in a whirl around here today with cattle work and butchering and all the normal stuff besides. I gotta get back out and finish up then head for the hills to church. Just warming my feet now.

]]> By: Kingcrow http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Kingcrow Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:05:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-448 I really look forward to reading your posts every day. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. I am realizing that my "city life" has been comfortable, but not exactly rewarding after nearly 40 years. There may be many other "lurkers" out here like myself, encouraged by your life. Thanks for keeping on. Kelly I really look forward to reading your posts every day. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. I am realizing that my “city life” has been comfortable, but not exactly rewarding after nearly 40 years.
There may be many other “lurkers” out here like myself, encouraged by your life.
Thanks for keeping on.

Kelly

]]> By: KSMILKMAID http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-447 KSMILKMAID Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:58:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-447 Tom: Where are You????? Did you get my emails? Please don't tell me I sent them to some strange someone on cyberspace. I hope they got to you. You obviously have some fans!!!!! I wonder how friends can give a standing ovation on cyberspace? If it were possible, I would initiate one now. Tom:

Where are You????? Did you get my emails? Please don’t tell me I sent them to some strange someone on cyberspace. I hope they got to you. You obviously have some fans!!!!! I wonder how friends can give a standing ovation on cyberspace? If it were possible, I would initiate one now.

]]> By: JFC http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-446 JFC Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:27:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-446 HH said: <I>I know older women are to instruct younger women on how to be godly wives and mothers....there must be scriptural commands on older agrarians instructing younger agrarians in how to subdue our land! (Those with a better memory than I can help us with that!)</I> Wherefore, those who are aged, and have planted the fields for scores of years, having sown and reaped the bounty provided by Jehovah, the same shall train those who are few in years to know the times and the seasons, and the taking of dominion over the pests of the fields and every predator that creepeth along the land, to destroy the fruitfulness thereof, that thee and thy children may be sustained to a thousand generations by that which Jehovah hath provided. Hezekiah 13:24 So there you have it :) I'm not sure if it's better <I>memory</I> or better <I>imagination</I>, though. NF ... Keep pressing on! I think you see a little sample here of those who are greatly built up by your efforts. JFC HH said: I know older women are to instruct younger women on how to be godly wives and mothers….there must be scriptural commands on older agrarians instructing younger agrarians in how to subdue our land! (Those with a better memory than I can help us with that!)

Wherefore, those who are aged, and have planted the fields for scores of years, having sown and reaped the bounty provided by Jehovah, the same shall train those who are few in years to know the times and the seasons, and the taking of dominion over the pests of the fields and every predator that creepeth along the land, to destroy the fruitfulness thereof, that thee and thy children may be sustained to a thousand generations by that which Jehovah hath provided. Hezekiah 13:24

So there you have it :) I’m not sure if it’s better memory or better imagination, though.

NF …
Keep pressing on! I think you see a little sample here of those who are greatly built up by your efforts.

JFC

]]> By: HomesteadHerbs http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-445 HomesteadHerbs Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:40:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-445 Tom, You can't leave- I just found you! Reading the comments written so far, a few things stand out! As Christian Agrarians we are a community! A community is made up of those who know and those who don't know, where wisdom is shared in a loving and supportive way. You make up the section of those who know, myself and others in a cubicle make up the section of those who don't know! I know older women are to instruct younger women on how to be godly wives and mothers....there must be scriptural commands on older agrarians instructing younger agrarians in how to subdue our land! (Those with a better memory than I can help us with that!) And you're always welcome to come to Texas to get rid of the winter blues! Tom,
You can’t leave- I just found you!
Reading the comments written so far, a few things stand out! As Christian Agrarians we are a community! A community is made up of those who know and those who don’t know, where wisdom is shared in a loving and supportive way. You make up the section of those who know, myself and others in a cubicle make up the section of those who don’t know! I know older women are to instruct younger women on how to be godly wives and mothers….there must be scriptural commands on older agrarians instructing younger agrarians in how to subdue our land! (Those with a better memory than I can help us with that!)
And you’re always welcome to come to Texas to get rid of the winter blues!

]]> By: Steve http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Steve Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:26:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-444 That does bring an episode to mind... My brother, an electrician by trade, is not very savy when it comes to computers. He hates to use them, so he's never learned how to. His wife however, bought a computer and hooked it up to the internet. Well, I guess my brother was bored one day because he decided to mess around with the thing. To this day, he doesn't know exactly how he did it but he got on the internet and clicked on a few things and was summarily brought to a "less than reputable" site. He said he sat there for a few seconds, got up, went to his bedroom closet, came back out and put a 9mm slug through the screen. And that was the end of that. That does bring an episode to mind…

My brother, an electrician by trade, is not very savy when it comes to computers. He hates to use them, so he’s never learned how to. His wife however, bought a computer and hooked it up to the internet. Well, I guess my brother was bored one day because he decided to mess around with the thing. To this day, he doesn’t know exactly how he did it but he got on the internet and clicked on a few things and was summarily brought to a “less than reputable” site. He said he sat there for a few seconds, got up, went to his bedroom closet, came back out and put a 9mm slug through the screen. And that was the end of that.

]]> By: Steve http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/20/winter-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Steve Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:08:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=117#comment-443 Tom, I want to echo the sentiments of the folks here. I wholeheartedly sympathize, and have often affectionately pondered a harmonious, yet brief matrimony of my Dell to my beloved Remington. A new meaning for a "shotgun wedding". But please resist the temptation. Realize that there are likely many people reading your posts that do not respond in the com box. I am sure that there are many, like me, that are only beginning to dream of the agrarian life, but are in circumstances that currently prevent them from realizing it. While I sit here, day in and day out, in my 6x8 prison (cubicle), your blog, and all the others like yours, give me hope and inspiration. Hope that the life I truly want is attainable, and the inspriation to take action. I realize that sometimes this must be a sacrifice for you, but I encourage you to continue this blog for as long and as often as you reasonably can. Tom,

I want to echo the sentiments of the folks here. I wholeheartedly sympathize, and have often affectionately pondered a harmonious, yet brief matrimony of my Dell to my beloved Remington. A new meaning for a “shotgun wedding”. But please resist the temptation. Realize that there are likely many people reading your posts that do not respond in the com box. I am sure that there are many, like me, that are only beginning to dream of the agrarian life, but are in circumstances that currently prevent them from realizing it. While I sit here, day in and day out, in my 6×8 prison (cubicle), your blog, and all the others like yours, give me hope and inspiration. Hope that the life I truly want is attainable, and the inspriation to take action. I realize that sometimes this must be a sacrifice for you, but I encourage you to continue this blog for as long and as often as you reasonably can.

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