From across the field, this view from my living room windows – the ones in want of a good washing – often transports me to the land of toys and make-believe. From across the field, from my front porch – the one where random dog toys and chew ropes and two dogs sprawl – it […]
The Growing Season Giveaway
One of my favorite autumn colors is baby wheat shining green. We’re right in the midst of wheat drilling. The freshly cultivated fields with the lines and furrows in the dirt are ever a source of beauty to me. We had a few fields sowed and then, as It Does, the rain fell. We have […]
A Common Masterpiece
Raspberry coffee drips in the coffeemaker. The quiet of the morning surrounds me. My farmer man left early, thus the raspberry dripping. I sent him out the door with hazelnut and a splash of half and half in his insulated mug, given to us by the insurance company, their name scrawled in letters across the side. Sliding the […]
In The Pause
I’d been a bit chilly all day, snuggled into a favorite sweatshirt. The oven warmth was welcoming as I slid pans of cinnamon-sugar coated cookies in and out. At the edge of the kitchen, the calendar beamed its brand-new April page as I’d actually remembered to turn it this morning. Sunshine played peekaboo and a southish wind sent drafts around […]
Tricked Into Treasuring Trash
I’ll spare you the more repulsive details… . . Only enough to provide a framework for the lesson Miss Jackie acted out for me as we took an evening stroll. The thermometer blinked a forty-nine degrees and the sun shone overhead. A warm hat and fuzzy gloves warded off the chilly wind as we headed […]
Wherein I Muse About Hay Bales and Gleaning and Ruth
I sat in the back of my Yukon last Wednesday evening, feet on the bumper, as my good farmer man wrestled with a baler and a belt. . I gazed across the field and breathed in deep the scent of mown feed that the baler had been hungrily ingesting and compressing into round bales, before […]
Of Wheatfields and Praise and Harvest 2018
Every year when harvest is finished, the last acre cut, last bushel deposited in the truck to head to town, my heart wells thankfulness and at some point my tongue gives voice to a favorite old hymn of mine. “The God of harvest praise, In loud thanksgiving raise, Hand, Heart and Voice………” Harvest is […]
Nonsense and Dr. Seuss and June Already
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” ~ Dr. Seuss Ah, yes, Dr. Seuss, I so […]
It Happened Like This
It Happened Like This. I had it planned in my head and a little bit on my planner. I’d written “Pages and Project post” in black ink on my planner page on the column for Wednesday morning. I have a couple of books that are a bit overdue for review. Not really, except for […]
Milo and Sunshine and Fall
Fall and Fields Sunshine and Stalks Combine and Cutting Milo and Machines Trucks and Trailers Acres and Augers Loads and Leaves Rows and Row Head ……………………………………………….. Beauty from our 2017 milo harvest. Capturing a few farm frames is a long time favorite of mine. Every year, grateful. Grateful for harvest gathered in one time more. […]
In the Dry and Dusty Seasons
In the dry and dusty seasons, when the blooms begin to fade, And the flowers of the season begin to wilt away, And the wind is whooping stronger, time seems a little longer, Waiting for refreshing showers of rain. The dust encircles round me and it oft obstructs my view, Hiding distant landscape from […]
Who Can Tilt The Water Jars of Heaven?
~Job 38:36-38 ~ Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind understanding? Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together? Who hears my prayers? My fervent request for wisdom and […]
Do You Understand How the Clouds Float?
Job 37:16 ~ Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge? Beautiful, wonderful, wonderful works!!! How God must delight in creating masterpiece skies and sunrises and sunsets and placing puffball clouds here and wisping a line of them over there. Then does He give this earth we […]
An IDEA Gardener
Late winter, I proclaim a bit vehemently to my farmer husband man, that “I am not going to have a garden this year.” It takes time and work and thought and watering and wheat harvest is busy enough without added extras and I think it’s something I will CROSS OFF for this year. Winter […]
Harvest From The Grain Cart’s Perspective Video and A Few ABC’s for July Farming
A few ABC’s for these July days of farm and fieldwork…. • Acres • Blue sky and blades • Certain son • Deere and disk • Earth turned over • Field and farm • GPS and ground worked • Heat • Ice cold Tea • Job to do • KREJ radio • Life […]
Ten Things That Shout of Harvest
1. the rustling, rustling of the swaying golden wheat 2. the combine lumbering across the field, turning into the next swath, header lowered and ready to gobble up the grain 3. tractor and grain cart circling back and forth between combines and trucks 4. hot, hot temps beating down and reflecting off the stubble left […]
On Harvest
This morning I can almost twist the atmosphere in my hands and wring it right out like a dishrag. The heat and humidity press in around me leaving me feeling quite similar to a rather limp dishrag. To the north, the evening brings us a building storm and streaks of lightning punctuate the landscape. No […]
