Northern Farmer

I’m going to try and get back in the saddle here, been hectic around here lately with a few more days of it coming and then it should settle down to just plain old farming and just generally enjoying life. Yesterday we had us the surprise of a lifetime, or at least the surprise of the last few years and had us an inch and a half of precious rain that didn’t have any lightening or thunder with it. The corn is stretching, much higher than I can reach and still has a long ways to grow. The corn grounds are shaded out with the lush growth and now the fields can retain the moister they have much easier than the last few years. The gardens are just down right beautiful, everything is thriving like I haven’t seen in a long time. Tomorrow evening we’ll pick the last of the peas and there sure was a bumper crop of em this year! The taters are ready for the table and the early sweet corn is just starting to tassel, all is well. Tomorrow I think we might clean up the silage pit being that we had such a good rain. The big weeds will pull right out of the pit sides being the ground is moist. Life is good!
Plus I’m busy figuring out what to say this for this Wednesday evening’s church service. Got all the speaking to myself, (gulp), and I kinda got it figured out what to talk about, but we’ll see where that all leads when the time comes. Never done the full service before but gotta start sometime I guess. I gotta admit though, in farming its sometimes different than the “regular” world. I look forward to the weekends being over, just the opposite of the regular world. The weeks go much easier even though the work can be such a crusher sometimes, but when I get into the work mode the days just fly by and I’m much more content, can sleep better and all that.
The small grains are starting to ripen and the crop in that department looks real good. They came along fairly good with the cooler first half of June, and in fact I really don’t think we had us any big heat waves yet this summer. Sometimes the temps jump up to around 90 but then the nights cool off and there’s some real good sleeping weather to be had. The cows are looking great, the calves are healthy and growing, yup its hard to beat this year so far!
This year I haven’t been keeping track of any issues related to farming, or politics or anything really. The nose has been kept to the grindstone and I haven’t had much time to look up and all around. I guess it really doesn’t make a hill of beans difference anyhow as far as what’s happening in the world as a whole. All I can do is try and affect the small world around us and that’s about it. Try and help out at church, in the neighborhood and where ever there is a need that I can help with. And there’s not all to much of that during this season anyhow. Traditionally this is when the work has to get done, now or never. There’s no time to be running here and there except for church and such because that is an important part of our lives. In fact beyond immediate family the little country church is the most important thing we do. And its all the time! An easy week is just Sundays and Wednesday evening. But like this last week we had us an event on Friday night with the younger kids camping out in the backyard of the church, which is pretty big, and had us a campfire, some fireworks and games and stuff. It was really good, but I didn’t stay all night, gotta work bright and early on the farm, so I headed home at midnight and got a very few short hours of sleep. My better half stayed for the duration and that can wear a person down! But all is well and over with that kid’s event. Pretty good turnout too!
Life is simple out here when you get right down to it and I’m in no mood to complicate it any more than it is already. The remainder of the summer will be busy getting ready for winter. Bringing in the crops and hay as it comes ready. Once early fall is done things will slow down considerably, with no feed worries for the winter and all the other miseries that go with that. I’m really looking forward to that time for once and this year will be special because we will have more time to do the things we want around the area here. That’s helping to spread the Gospel in the region. And after studying how they did it in the days of old I feel pretty comfortable with the way it will work out. In the months of heavy farm work, get the work done and get it done well. When the work is done on the farm except for daily chore, making wood and those few other seasonal jobs, well just do like in the days of old and spread the Gospel. I was just thinking about that doing some stuff outside a few minutes ago, how its such a privilege to do the Lord’s work. It ain’t a job, it’s a privilege! Read the Word till its in the very marrow of our bones and can’t be contained any longer!
So after Wednesday comes and goes I’m hoping that things will finally return to normal around here and I can blog like I used to. Its amazing I even blog as much as I do considering all that goes on, but I do love it, (most of the time). I’d better get preparing for Wednesday evening now. The Bible text I’ll be using is Matthew Chapter 25, verses 31 thru 46. It should be a good one.

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