Northern Farmer

It’s raining out tonight, a bit different for this time of the year. I remember so many times when New Year’s weekend was way below zero, way below. I don’t know what’s going to come of this weather, if it’ll turn to ice, or snow or what. A good time to stay home in a nice warm house and keep off the roads as much as possible. Yup, New Years again, second one on this blog but come spring it’ll be two years old. And the funny part is there’s still people that read it, and worse yet I’m still writing on it! How many times I’ve been wanting to pull the plug, but not tonight anyhow. Good mood here tonight. Sitting down here in what some would call an office and others would probably call a dump. But it works somehow, between the corn here and there, between the broomcorn heads and the pail of broomcorn seed. Between the Small Farmer’s Journals laying here and there, and between all the Gospel music CD’s spread around the other desk. Trying to type with some good Gospel music blaring in the backround, yup, life is good.

This last year’s been a humdinger, from a spring of great promise to a summer of devastating drought. We’re hanging on, in fact more than hanging on, I do believe we’re moving ahead. From a fall when sickness downed a family member setting the farm weeks behind we are emerging victorious! We’re operating in a new mode, one man down, but a person just can’t stop, or sit around and cry about it, gotta keep pluggin along. The different generations that compose a family farm are something to see! From toddlers to the very aged, all around the same farm. Everyone calls it home. The sick are taken care of right on the farm, not sent away. That’s what I hope my life is like if it ever comes to that, family taking care of family on the old farm.

With spring only a short time away in the scheme of things we’d better start planning next years crops around here. We’d better get out and make some more wood while we’re at it. I finally got the main farm outdoor wood furnace figured out. I wasn’t quite sure how much wood it takes to make it through a winter in that one stove alone, but have since figured that it’ll take about 14 or 15 cord of good dried oak to make it. That’s not counting mine for the house here, just the main stove. So for people living further south, now you can imagine how much wood we have to make just for one season alone. Good thing we have acres of good woods to clean up.

This post won’t be some heavy thing, just reflecting my mood this evening, relaxed. Looking forward to the next year, because if there’s as much change here in the next year as there was this year things could get very interesting indeed. A year ago if anyone would have said that I’d be taking Bible College courses, well, I’da looked at them like they were from another planet or something! If anyone would have told me I’d have no problem selling all them steers that we kept this year I wouldn’t have believed them, no advertising at all and enough steers to equal the average size herd in Minnesota were kept to sell direct. God is Good!

And finally this was the year of the Little Bible Believing Church in the Hills, what an incredible year. Always something going on, active in spreading the Word. What would life have been like if God wouldn’t have sent us there. And I mean He sent us! Cause I’d never even heard of it before. I’ll never forget that first Wednesday evening, walking into that little church, not knowing a soul, was I nervous! And since that first evening it’s never slowed down. I never have missed a Sunday, but tomorrow could be a first with the weather the way it is, but that’s OK. Church is in the home or where ever we are. But maybe we’ll make it, we’ll see tomorrow. People who’ve followed this blog for a long time know that one of my biggest dreams in life was to have a community of folks out here in the country, like minded folks, people that could depend on each other through it all. It has happened, church folks, great people, and life will never be the same. And it’s only just begun!

If I’m still on this earth next year I hope the year end report will be a good one, in fact I know it will be, no matter what the world throws at us our faith in our Lord will pull us through anything and emerge victorious. Someday I’ll just have to write down what God’s done for this little family out in fly over land, one thing after another,it just never stops, the blessings flow. Little blessings to huge blessings, our Lord covers us in a dark world.

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