Ready Or Not

Well ready or not its looking like winter has showed up early in southern Iowa. I think I can think of only one other time that we have run out of time to get things finished before Thanksgiving.

We had a good push on custom NH3. Most all of the planned acres got finished and we were even able to get alot of the last minute acres accomplished by running several outfits early last week.

Sometimes things get done at night that don't usually happen during the day like coming home with 4 empties.

We did run out of time on alot of our own and some custom chiseling. Some of those unfinished acres may have to be run over with our vertical tillage implement next spring.

Remember back in July when we visited about replanting a North Skunk River bottom on July 29. Well after a hard freeze we worked on combining them. They were averaging around 10 bushel per acre.

Dozing, tiling, and trackhoe work are going strong and will continue at a full pace until the frost in the ground gets unworkable.

Many churches have their congregational meetings this time of year where they approve their budget, missions fund, projects, and the slate of new elders and deacons. It's gratifying to see how God uses different folks each year to accomplish His purposes.

So often we have the best of intentions however we always seem to run out of time for the less demanding jobs. Jan has asked me for some time now that we take a day together. Well since winter is here we are going to make that happen this week.

I'm sure those of you that are my age or older will agree with me it just seems like yesterday when we were young families raising kids and always running out of time. Now all of a sudden it's 35 years later.

If time continues to fly by and the Lord keeps us around, ready or not, it won't be long and we will have more to look back on than look forward to here on earth. As we look back what will we see? Did we do the important things or did we run out of time?