The drought continues its merciless grip here with temps in the nineties and no rain in site. We’re trying to keep up watering the gardens at least but are falling far short of being able to keep up. But they’re managing to hang on somewhat with our favorite crops getting the priorities. [...]
Looks like the promised rains have come and gone and decided we only needed a tenth of an inch here. That’s all we got and the water sprinkler is going as always in the garden. Tomorrow I should start combining oats, the combine is all ready as of today but that sprinkle shut [...]
This summer we’re in the midst of a severe drought in our area. I thought last year was bad, but this is just adding to it. You couldn’t get it to rain here for anything, plus I was just driving through a local town and the bank thermometer said 99 at 6:15 PM, [...]
In the last few weeks, a friend has decided that he would like to buy a farm and he has found a 220 acre farm in our area that is for sale. Rather than place his retirement money into the stock market, where the money can evaporate in a moment or be used for immoral [...]
In the last post, Tom said that he is praying for a revival in the countryside. This past Sunday, we read the account of Cain and Abel in church, and while reading this account, it occurred to me that we need Christian people involved in agriculture and that we do need a revival among those [...]
The Fourth has come and gone and things are back to normal around here. Of coarse they were normal during the Fourth also. Cut a field of hay yesterday but later in the afternoon we had us a barbeque here. Some chicken, pork chops, crock pot beans with our home raised hamburger, salads, a [...]
Kind of a different day around here this Monday, misted and drizzled a little bit here and there. Only received 15/100ths of an inch of rain on parched ground, or should I say parched and well done land. It’s getting drier and drier every moment, but today at least the land smelled different [...]