We farm one circle, owned by our neighbor’s, that has an irrigation system on it. This system has tirelessly pumped water, both this summer and last. HOT and DRY. I know that fresh, abundant water is a blessing, but these last two years have made that fact even more apparent. Last summer, we watered our lawn […]
Nature’s Art~Mud Drawing
I love the mud drawing that I found on my sidewalk artistically sketched by the elements of nature. It has intrigued me. I think it is beautiful and it portrays an essence of farm and my children. Muddy prints penciled and outlined from the muddy boots that had been dropped there by my son. His sister’s […]
Hello Again…It’s Monday!
Another week! Since I started posting “Hello Monday Happenings”, I am even more amazed at how quickly each week goes skipping by and away and another week rolls into its place to go skipping by equally as fast. Linking up with Lisa for lots of hellos… A few things to remember about this past week…A few […]
Fueling, Greasing, Checking, Chiseling
One of the mornings, while our kiddos were in Ohio, I rode along with my man to check oil wells and then I dropped him off at his tractor. It worked out well, because I was able to snap a bunch of pictures. Too often, I don’t have my camera when I want to snap away. […]
Hello Monday:Just Stuff
Hello Monday! A new week! And a peek back at just some stuff that happened around here last week. Hello to good-bye sandburr stickers. You are not welcome on this farm. Each battle will get us a slight bit closer to winning the war. Someday we hope to have nice green yard that is grass instead of […]
A Winner, Farmers who Grow It, and Other Information
Attention:Announcement:Hooray:The winner of Darby Dugger’s book For the Love of Our Husbands is Danita! Thank-you to everyone who entered. I wish I could’ve given everyone a book. I almost hated to pull a name out of the hat bowl, because I felt disappointed for all the names that didn’t get drawn. So my husband did it for me. LOL! You can follow Darby […]
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Oil Wells
Now, I can’t really claim to know a lot about oil wells. I do know a few things. You see them fairly often in Kansas. I think they’re sort of fascinating. My husband has a part-time job checking, measuring, servicing, and recording the barrels pumped, for a few oil wells close by. My uncle from […]
Hello Monday!
Hello green beans, picked fresh from my mother-in-law’s garden, snapped, washed, and ready to be canned! Hello cucumbers, also from my mother-in-law’s garden, soaking and pickling, turning into crunchy, sweet pickles ready to fill up my pantry shelves for this winter! Hello my farmer with his tractor and disk, getting ready to head to the field. […]
In Which We Free The Bunnies and Are Invaded By Raccoons
After caring diligently for the baby bunnies, my daughter decided it was time to free them. They hip-hopped happily into the grass and disappeared very quickly. We freed them a good distance from our house, so hopefully they would stay out of reach of our cats. They were very cute little things, but I think they are […]
Sum, Sum, Summertime!
Summertime. The name offers a vision of hot, sunny days, ice-cold lemonade in a sweating glass, fun with friends, curling up in the hammock, reading a book, woven lawn chairs, fresh garden produce, long, lazy days, splashing in the water… I hear the sounds of summer. Sprinklers zinging. Locusts humming. Mowers running. The smell of chlorine from the pool makes me think […]
More On Wheat Harvest
Wheat harvest is such a major part of our lives. It comes and then it is gone. It goes by at lightning speed and at a turtle crawl all at the same time. There is nothing quite like watching all those golden fields disappear underneath the combines as they eat their way […]
Yummy Berry Fruit Cups
Here is the other fruit cup recipe that I like really well. The rest of my family isn’t as fond of it, but I don’t mind. ‘Cause I really like them! You can go here for my family’s favorite fruit cup. The recipe I have didn’t really have a name, so I made one up. […]
Of Harvest and Busy and Animals, But Mostly the Animals
It’s been a busy couple of weeks! Harvest time. Just the words equate “BUSY” in my mind! It’s a good time and a blessed time, though. My cousin and her husband and four daughters and two sons were here for the first week of harvest. My cousin’s husband helped out in the fields and my […]
Cuttin’ Wheat
The Harvest
The harvest in Kansas, the harvest of wheat, Each year it is hectic and busy, but neat, The combines are rolling, dust in the air, Wheat heads are waving, golden and fair, My man’s in the combine, surveying his crop, Till the harvest is done, he won’t hardly stop, The truck and its driver patiently […]