A New Season

Good morning. I'm not sure who you all are but I hope you are enjoying the season you are at in your life. Just like the weather here in Iowa our lives go through different seasons.

It's been cold around here this week. Uncomfortable situations sometimes call for unlikely friendships.

Sometimes you may wonder what can possibly happen on the farm in the dead of winter. Well Karl is busy selling hogs and will soon be power washing his shed in order to get ready for a new batch of baby pigs. 

We are hauling some grain. In this weather we have to be sure the truck fuel is treated or it will gel up as thick as jelly. Also we run alcohol in the air lines so the brakes work.

The boys have been hauling feed ingredients to a local feed mill from ethanol plants in the northern part of the state.

Our seed sales are just about complete other than walk-in business during planting season. Winter is a good season to sit down with customers and help them plan for the coming year.

We get in semi loads of seed just about every  week from December through February.

Of course winter time is when a farmer gets his equipment ready for another new crop season.

Congratulations to Kyle and Meredith who started a new season in their lives yesterday.

Our family did an overnight stay after the holidays at a motel with a water slide. Breakfast at Perkins the next morning took six tables.

Kurt is starting a new season in his life serving as a deacon in he and Emily's church in Pella.  

Mark was also given the responsibility of serving as a deacon this year.

Yesterday our church council got together for breakfast at the cabin. Thanks to Irv for planning and cooking the meal. We had a good time.

Yesterday we had a family meeting about an upcoming outing with Pablo and Paula. Planning on something you are looking forward to is half the fun.

"But Mom, I didn't mean to make him cry." Older readers, doesn't Harris's hat remind you of Mr. Khrushchev who was president of Russia in the 1960s?

Well that's about all the news I have for this week. No matter what season of your life you are in remember to live life with a purpose. It's how God intended it when He made you.