Choices

Every day the sun comes up we have choices. What needs done today? Will we choose to be positive or negative on accomplishments? Will we compliment or criticize? Will we see the glass half full or half empty? At the end of today, who did we benefit?

This past Tuesday we hosted an excellent planter clinic. Clayton reminded us about dozens of planter parts and settings that need checked or replaced to help insure a good start to our crop year. Kudos to family for making and serving over 100 pizzas and dozens of desserts. Thanks to good help for keeping the coffee filled, making popcorn, finding extra chairs, and helping clean up. 

Some high school grandkids and their friends asked their parents for an excuse to take a half a day of school off to join us. Below grandson Tatum and great-grand-daughter Oakley are sitting on the seed treatment hay rack sharing popcorn. Thanks for the picture Kristin.

Alex and Kasey worked on tile fixes. Sometimes an old clay tile breaks. Sometimes a rodent makes a hole in the plastic tile causing it to suck dirt. Occasionally an orange intake gets hit by machinery and parts need replaced. Thanks for the picture Kasey.

We finished overhauling a customer's 12/23 planter this past week. We have three more ready to work on next week. 

We use and sell Prescription Tillage Technology disc openers. Their unique design of seriated edges cut residue better. They also fracture the soil profile, maximizing soil moisture to the seed. They have a leading edge which alleviates the need for no-till coulters. They outlast two sets of OEM openers. We are finally replacing a set on one of our planters after 7500 acres of use on a 12 row high speed planter.

When I was a small kid I remember our family visiting John and Louise's family on a farm north of Rose Hill. John taught me to roller skate on the wooden floor at Edgetown Roller Rink. I remember when country schools closed in the 1960s, and their kids coming to Osky Christian School. Their family later moved to a farm northwest of Pella. John passed away early Thursday evening and joined Louise in heaven. Our prayers for the family; Bonnie, Jan, Ken and Karen (twins), and Jon and Jay (twins). Jon, who we call Papa Jon when he helps us farm, is Emily's father, and obviously then Kurt's father-in-law. Thanks for the picture.

All choices have consequences. Sometimes we  have character choices that are based on the commitment of what we believe. Will we compromise and stay comfortable? Or will we dare to be a Daniel, and possibly face a lion's den? Christ protected Daniel. He'll do the same for us. Blessings.