Things on the technological front have been functioning less than optimally for the last few weeks. Grandpa is setting up his office out here on the farm in their little studio apartment, and in the midst of trying to get internet out here for him, we currently don’t have it in our house or with [...]
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In the meantime
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
father’s day
Posted in children, family, home, Uncategorized, tagged family, home on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are many ways to be a good father, and I am not sure one man can be them all. The farmer is not one to wear the newborns we’ve made in slings, get up in the middle of the night and do a diaper change, or go through a night time routine each night [...]
Neighborly love
Posted in farm, farming, gratitude, Uncategorized, tagged farming, planting on June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We have been feeling the neighborly love of rural living so much lately. That tractor pictured above is in the middle of prepping our luscious bottom land soil–which is finally dry enough to work–for the upcoming planting of fall/winter crops. See that rototiller there? It is ever so much smaller than that tractor! And the [...]
Blooming
Posted in changes, family, farm, farming, nature, spring, Uncategorized, tagged farming, seasons, spring on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Spring, in earnest anyways, has been late coming this year. There have been a few subtle shifts to let us know that March 20th did in fact come and start a new season–the days are longer, the frogs and birds louder and more lively. It has even, admittedly, been a wee bit warmer; but for [...]


