Northern Farmer

Fall has come in force here! As I write in early evening the temps are in the fifties, yesterday it was almost 90 above. Quite a change in a short time. I just fired up the outdoor wood furnace for the first time this season a bit ago because there will be no warm up in site for a while so might as well get a little ahead of the game here. Was tuning up the recently purchased silage chopper today and was that ever easy compared to the ancient one! Tomorrow will be the maiden voyage in the corn field here with it. That’ll tell everything as far as how much better times will be here chopping. The main brunt of chopping is still being put off, letting the corn mature more and more. The cobs are filling out with the recent rains so might as well let the corn do its job.

Tomorrow’s butchering three steers here. Shouldn’t take all to long. I guess the creamery is going to send two men to do the job and then it’ll go quick. A couple hours and that should be it. Jack the butcher is even coming out of retirement to help the regular butcher tomorrow. Jack was our butcher for years and I really liked that guy. Well, he heard that we were butchering and told the creamery that he’d help and they said “great!” You know, it makes a person feel good when you hear that folks want to come over and work. Must be doing something right around this place!

And tomorrow evening is our regular Wednesday evening church service as always. I don’t feel so guilty now that the sun is going down a bit earlier about stopping work and heading over that way. My favorite time is late fall and winter when its dark very early, just go heading through the hills to church and it just makes my week! Before silage starts I’ve also been reading the seven volume set of “The Writings of John Wesley”. All 8000+ pages of it. And after silage is done I’ll really get into it. But what strikes me the most is the fact that the way folks thought back then isn’t a whole lot different than today. I’m talking the world here. By the time I get done with all them pages I should know a thing or two more than I know now.

I see Herrick Kimball has decided to shut down his comments for a bit. I’ve often thought about that but can’t quite seem to do it yet. Besides, half the time I don’t get hardly any comments here anyhow compared to a couple years ago. I can see his point and I agree if that’s what he feels he should do, well than do it! I’m probably writing more than normal lately, but that’s just the anticipation of silage chopping coming up soon. Gets me all excited! Truthfully I don’t know what I’ll do about blogging, its kinda in the blood, but it can wear at a guy a bit now and then. Maybe I’ll shut down for a couple weeks during silage and take a break. We’ll see when the time comes. Which might be pretty soon.

Found out today that we might get our first day off from the farm in five years coming this October. Heading for the Smoky Hills up north, got a cabin for an overnight at the Village of the Smoky Hills and just want to kick back for 24 hours. Don’t know how I will handle that much time away from the farm but I’m sure I’ll survive. A whole bunch of church folks from our little Bible believing church have a block of rustic cabins spoken for that weekend and it should be a good time fellowshipping with the saints in the hills. Plus rumor has it that the food there is pretty durn good! There’ll be a little preaching there to boot and I like that kinda stuff! Plus it should be after mosquito season and that way a feller can hike through the wooded hills and retain most of the blood he left with.

So that’s just some bits and pieces of life on the farm this early September.

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