Northern Farmer

Been kinda busy these last few days, more irons in the fire than I know what to do with em! So everything is normal there. Winter’s grip is holding on, getting cool outside and we should have a below zero spell for a while around here. No snow since the beginning of December, but what we received in the beginning of that month never has gone away. The hay fields are still protected under the snow blanket, something we haven’t had for many years. And as winter progresses I’m getting a general idea about how much more hay I’ll have to buy to make it to grass. Of coarse every one else is looking for hay too, just depends on how much a person is willing to pay. And believe me, it costs blood! But such is life out here in the back roads.

Other than that things are really going good around here. The one thing I hate to do will have to be done in the next couple of weeks, preparing taxes. Pain in the butt. But I guess somebody has to support the government, might as well be me, eh. But I’m sure others that read this do more than their fair share also. I’d better not get on this subject or I’ll probably end up in jail! Gets under my hide and that’s why I very seldom touch on it.

We’ve butchered a couple of our hogs, figured we’d better get around to that before they die of old age. they’re a bit bigger than a standard market hog, especially the one I couldn’t get out of the pen. No way it said, I ain’t going out of the pen, and that hog was big enough to be the boss. So we butchered two other and that big hog got one more in the pen with it as of now. So using hillbilly logic, we’ll get the smaller pig out and butcher it and the smart alack hog will be all alone in the pen. Then he’s mine! See, when we butcher we put the hog in a cage and I dispatch it in the cage where it can’t even turn around. Works slick and the hog will kick itself out when shot and that’s when we bleed it. But with that big stubborn hog we’ll, or should I say I’ll shoot it in the pen and then drag it out. I don’t want to shoot it while there’s another one with it. Could get messy and I don’t like messy situations!

We didn’t make the ring sausage yet, that’s the stuff I take to the smokehouse and get er done up right. But we made some ground sausage for frying up. Made the standard recipe and then I made us some special stuff that has a little more snort, just the way I like it. Added allot more black pepper and red pepper to it. Some folks don’t prefer that, but we do in this house. I always say if the meal don’t make a person break into a dead sweat then there ain’t enough spice in it! I’m serious! One time we stopped at some Mexican friends house and ate there one summer evening and let me tell you I was soaking wet eating that food! Talk about some hot stuff, but it was so, so good! Plus I figure it does a good job on deworming a fella!

So on the home front that’s about all that’s really happening. On the church front it’s calming down a bit, that’s as far as our little church goes. As far as everything else as far as faith matters things are at a roar. We’re building a website geared for country folk, to bring the Word of God to folks that would hardly ever step foot in a church. I figure Jesus went to the people, and that’s what we’re supposed to do to. It was only in the temple where he had big confrontations. He had some minor one’s out in the countryside, but not with the country folk. Just the self appointed bigshots. So anyway we’re working on that. It’s already half way up.

I’ve done allot of pondering on what and how we as a family could spread the Gospel and no matter which way I look at it, it all boils down to that Old Fashioned Gospel preaching. I’m not into none of this new stuff, I ain’t into the “send in your seed money to receive your miracle”, I ain’t into this religion that says we’re all saved and now we can do what ever we want. Live like the world, act like the world and all of that. It don’t work for me cause it sure ain’t in the Bible as far as I can see. I even added a link on the sidebar called Old Fashioned Preaching, a Baptist site, and I guess I ain’t a Baptist, but in reality I’m pretty close to the old fashioned hellfire Baptist preaching. Close enough where I’d fit in without the slightest problem in an old hellfire preaching Baptist church. So we’re gearing up to bring the Gospel to folks, not a watered down version, just the Gospel right out of the Bible. Nothing man made.

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