Northern Farmer

Had us a rain day here, and no silage got chopped today. And that’s OK cause I’ll be back out there tomorrow and Saturday weather permitting. This rain should cut the dust in the fields, the last three days were some of the dustiest I ever had chopping silage. But the yields are great and the pit is filling up, and it ain’t a small pit! The Goliath is history and all of it is in the pit, the newer chopper never even had a bit of trouble in that giant stuff. The regular corn is a piece of cake and I travel fairly fast chopping it out in the fields.

Don’t know what I’ll be doing next week, but that don’t matter none, there’s always something, just when a person is doing a major job everything else seems to get a little fuzzy. Kinda forget about everything else. There’s lush fall pastures to fence in to fatten the cows up for winter, fields to work and a million other things to do. Gardens are producing more than we can handle and I gotta get me some pigs soon, right after silage chopping is done. This will be different this winter, much different than the last couple of winters. Gotta make some more wood too. Plenty of dead stuff out in the pastures. The elms have died off again. They died off here in the late seventies, then a new generation sprouted up till now and that old Dutch Elm disease made its reappearance. The died standing up, the bark falls off and the wood is already dry for the most part. That younger elm is allot easier to work with than the huge elms of years ago too. When a person burns 100% wood for heat it has allot more importance than as just a backup heat source.

Rumor has it that we will be shingling the roof on the double wide over at our little country church next Saturday. Looking forward to that! Should be done with the silage and could use a day of working somewhere else than here for once. Kinda a farmer’s vacation, going and working some place else. Then there’s a ton of ministry things to take care of over the next few months, at church and outside of the church. It ain’t going to me a boring winter. Gotta get going getting around the countryside visiting folks who need visiting and the Word spoken to them. I love our church, as most all know, but the call is for outside the walls and woe is me if I do not heed to the call! Just wrote a little thing on that at Healing Waters. Was just at the local feed mill a while ago and the conversation went that direction, about this being a supposedly Christian country but in reality it isn’t. And I’m talking about the professed Christian population. There’s a passle of churches in every small town, but to watch and listen to a good majority of the church goers they are no different than the world. And that’s not taking into account the growing number of folks out here that are totally turned off to Christianity and in many ways I can’t blame them. There’s all the temptations of the modern society and very few churches that will stand up and bravely speak against it all. And for those seeking the Living God, these empty shells of Christianity don’t satisfy the quest for truth. This has happened many times before in history so its not something very new at all. And its the time we were born into and we musta been born into this time for a reason other than just sitting back and going for the ride!

Its funny how when there’s a rain day the Lord can do some powerful speaking to a person. Now some of the best speaking times is when I’m doing fieldwork, but I must confess its different running the silage chopper. Its so high stress and noisy that I can hardly even dwell on faith matters running that thing except for praying that nothing serious breaks down. It ain’t like raking hay! But I know the Lord is gently nudging me certain directions. How can I say that? Well, He’s nudging every single one of us! And I figure the Lord of everything there ever was is someone to listen to by my estimation!

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