As I was walking out of church this past week our pastor jokingly ask me, "So now that the crop is all planted what do you do all summer?" I jokingly replied that we just wait for harvest and asked him if he knew what the 4x4 stickers on a farm pickup stood for, 4 weeks of planting, 4 weeks of harvesting, and 44 weeks of vacation. I'm sure pastors get their share of what do you do all week when you only work on Sunday jokes. Actually we are still planting a few beans yet.
Spraying for others is a stressful job. You hurry to beat a growing crop. You have to stay off the row. You mustn't leave strips of weeds. Neither are you to spray things not supposed to be sprayed such as waterways, terraces, gardens, and flowers. You must run out of field at the same time that you run out of product. Karl is carrying the bulk of this load and is doing a phonominal(great) job.
There is always hay to bale for ourselves and others including some waterways.
A fair amount of nitrogen is being added this year to the corn crop anticipating higher corn prices. Here Kurt is showing his dad the ropes. I'm Kurt's fill in on this job since he and Emily went to Cary, MS. with their church to teach Bibleschool.
June is strawberry season. Mark and I aren't getting much help out of Ethan.
Here are two sisters talking shop about their homemade quilts. We went to Donna and Arlin's one evening last week for pizza. I think this homemade tablecloth looks so cool.
Jan took the four-wheeler to a neighbor's estate auction yesterday. They have a very unique old round barn.
Jan and I went for a drive last evening to check crops. It was encouraging to see green young fields growing fast. We took this picture while driving over the Mile Long Bridge crossing Red Rock Lake. We commented to each other how God reveals Himself to us in nature including sunsets. Early this morning I was awaken by hailstones hitting my bedroom window from a small, brief thunderstorm. I thought now what? It doesn't matter how evenly spaced the cropstand is, or how good the weed control is, or how much fertilizer is on the growing crop, God is still in charge. While we go through a growing season we don't know what the future holds. However we definately know who holds the future.
There is always hay to bale for ourselves and others including some waterways.
A fair amount of nitrogen is being added this year to the corn crop anticipating higher corn prices. Here Kurt is showing his dad the ropes. I'm Kurt's fill in on this job since he and Emily went to Cary, MS. with their church to teach Bibleschool.
June is strawberry season. Mark and I aren't getting much help out of Ethan.
Here are two sisters talking shop about their homemade quilts. We went to Donna and Arlin's one evening last week for pizza. I think this homemade tablecloth looks so cool.
Jan took the four-wheeler to a neighbor's estate auction yesterday. They have a very unique old round barn.
Jan and I went for a drive last evening to check crops. It was encouraging to see green young fields growing fast. We took this picture while driving over the Mile Long Bridge crossing Red Rock Lake. We commented to each other how God reveals Himself to us in nature including sunsets. Early this morning I was awaken by hailstones hitting my bedroom window from a small, brief thunderstorm. I thought now what? It doesn't matter how evenly spaced the cropstand is, or how good the weed control is, or how much fertilizer is on the growing crop, God is still in charge. While we go through a growing season we don't know what the future holds. However we definately know who holds the future.
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