Time for some daily details and weekly remembrances! I know, I know. I say it over and over and over and over and over and over, but time really does wing away so quickly. I want to savor each moment as much as is humanly possible and as much as I can, even though […]
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The Heroes Close To Us {Five Minute Friday}
Linking up with Lisa-Jo for Five Minute Friday…. He does the hard stuff. He does the heavy stuff. He does so many things I wouldn’t want to do. And things I’m glad I don’t have to do. He knows how to weld and work on machinery and fix things. He sees things from angles I […]
Thankful Thursday 3
The God of harvest praise, With loud thanksgiving raise, Hand, hearts, and voice, The valleys laugh and sing, Forests and mountains ring, The plains their tribute bring, The streams rejoice. This song comes to mind every time we are in the fields harvesting the grains and crop. It’s so beautiful and it captures the […]
Time to Cut the Milo
We started cutting milo the end of last week. Today my farmer man is racing against the weather. We were waiting for the moisture to go down in the grain, so we could cut. Now we’re hoping to get the most of it cut before the weather changes. We’re supposed to get rain tonight, with […]
Memoir Monday {No. 3}
I went back and read my very first Hello Monday post. So many things that stay somewhat the same and yet how quickly things change too. Swim lessons and kittens and birthdays and produce from my sweet mother-in-law and her productive garden. These things are a typical part of our summers, but I’m always surprised […]
Quick Take of a Busy Week {hello monday}
Hello Monday and hello almost halfway through October! The week went fast, as always. But last Monday seems like a long time ago too! Salad and laundry More Wheat drilling beautiful, beautiful Monday weather Suburban swept out phone calls and bookwork basement cleanup cooking and casseroles Sugar Cookie Squares and Harvest Freestyle Flexi Making applesauce […]
When It’s Time to Drill, You Need a Drill Fill Auger
Getting ready to drill wheat involves getting a seed wheat truck ready to go and that means putting the drill fill auger back on the truck till the wheat’s drilled and then it will be take it off again so we can use the dump truck for other things and for saving seed wheat when […]
Home Ec and Carrots and Drilling {hello monday}
Here we go a’drillin’ wheat down in the worked-up ground… Hello to helping cut some beans and then hopping into more wheat drilling prep and starting to cultivate and to drill~ Hello to carrot harvest! Tucker helped Grandma dig carrots and she sent a bunch home with him. Aren’t they so pretty? I love the […]
In the Field, Cutting Corn
Beautiful fall time harvest sky! Lots of upkeep to a machine! When there’s moving parts, they need to be kept moving easily with lots of oiling and greasing! Cutting and hauling and carting the crop! Loading and unloading and loading and unloading and loading and hauling to unload again! Mealtime still rolls around, even when […]
Of Cutting Corn and Corn Spills
What would harvest be, but boring, without a grain spill or two?!! My farmer husband man and I were talking and we don’t think we’ve had a year of cutting on our circle that we haven’t had a grain spill. 🙂 Keeps life interesting and makes some good photo opps! Yep,yep, yep! Here’s our milo spill last […]
Apparently Food Photos Were Attracting My Attention This Week {hello monday}
When I sat down and started looking through my pictures and choosing what ones I wanted for today’s post, the majority were falling in the food category. I guess that’s just what I was snapping pics of last week! But I do like food photos and I do like random photos of things that catch […]
We Watch the Week Speed By {hello monday}
We say “Hello new week!” Hello! Hello! Hello! We have a giveaway going on and we’ve been thinking about laughter and how much a kitchen means! Cooper says, “Hey”! We mow grass. See the buildings. See the cows. Hello big GREEN tomato. Please ripen. Hello RED tomatoes. Thank-you sis-in-law!! We can tomato juice. See Tucker read. […]
Laugh More
It hit me this morning. It’s so easy to fall into routine and life and to-do lists. Life has bumps and frustrations and stresses. Even if some of them we bring on ourselves unnecessarily. Even if some of them are put upon us and we have no choice in them. Sometimes life doesn’t feel fun […]
Summer Celebration Flexi Giveaway!
Gardening and watering and pickling and canning and swimming lessons and a little cleaning and some cooking and errand running and sleeping and sorting and walking means not much time for blogging! I feel like my blogging is very hit and miss right now. I was happy that I managed to get several photos of […]
What Happened Last Week? {hello monday}
Hello Busy Week and my tired brain and wondering just what all did happen last week? 🙂 Hello to getting finished cutting wheat!! Praise God! It was an alternator-going-out week. One on one of the systems we’re checking-it quite burnt up and one on one of our semis. I got to make parts runs Monday […]
From My Front Porch I Can See…
I have a porch. And on my porch is a swing borrowed from my brother. And if I sit in the swing borrowed from my brother and gaze, I can see a small wheat field, And in that small wheat field, today, is a combine harvesting the golden, ripe wheat. And in the combine is […]
