Northern Farmer

Another Sunday come and almost gone here on the farm. And let me tell you it just doesn’t get any better than the way the weather was, or is today. Talk about perfection! Sunny skies, almost no wind and in the seventies. The calves are coming into this world in about as good of conditions as it can get. As I write we have two cows in labor presently and have had four others born since this morning. I’ll go and check them in a bit, but they have a way of performing their calving job pretty good without me nosing around to much. Some good old girls!

There’s some interesting things going on in the blogging corner of the world that I browse around in. First, Herrick Kimball has written a book, check it out. Herrick is just a plain top notch Christian Agrarian writer whom I look up to. I have always considered him a mentor and probably always will. Over at Steven’s blog, Steven has written an incredibly insightful blog about “Earth Day”. Amy has written about consumerism and that always catches my eye. And at Log Cabin Homestead Russ is on the same topic. All well worth the reads. And JM and family are now kinda my neighbors, with a newly dug outhouse. Boy, I can hardly wait to try it out! Things just keep getting better and better around here.

Anyway, today we went to church and didn’t want to have it end. And even after it did end we still hung around like always. Beautiful service, wonderful singing, and a powerful sermon, all adding up to a great service. Now for anyone reading and figuring that this can only happen in the big city in some super church, well, keep thinking that. It’s to crowded out here anyhow. We’ll keep this a secret. Well, not really, I guess we shouldn’t keep these rural churches hidden, but truthfully, they are wonderful. And then after church our associate pastor, wife and young boy stopped by for a farm tour and just some good old fashion visiting. This is getting addicting, I mean visiting like folks used to. Reminds me of all the stories that I enjoy in the Foxfire Books. Folks were so much closer then, and by gosh, I figure it’s high time to bring that back. Every time a person visits and has a good old time it seems over the course of things that more work gets done on the farm, a person has more energy and just a better outlook on life. Now I can’t stop being that I started so here’s one last thought. The modern culture does everything possible to prevent this from happening. It wants people to stay home staring at the TV, getting their mind full of how we are supposed to live. Be a good little consumer, eh. Remember, happy people don’t spend as much. People that visit and love their neighbor are an enemy to the direction the culture wants us to go. And when a person recognizes that, they realize they are holding a powerful weapon against the dark culture of the world. Something so simple, so powerful. Loving your neighbor. And the good guys are going to be the winners in the battle, it’s a promise!

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