Thankful for the Good & the Bad

Thanksgiving is here! It’s been a crazy couple of months around here and this week will be no different! God has had us busy and He has been filling our calendar days, but one thing is for sure, I am learning to be thankful for the good, and the bad.

When life is busy, we complain about it and then when life is slower paced, we really don’t appreciate it. (Although we don’t see too much slower pacing around here!) Fall has been nonstop crazy and sometimes it seems like we are in a downhill snowball that is picking up pace with every turn! Some days and weeks are just overwhelming!

Over the last few weeks, I have experienced one catastrophe, it seems, after another! In 2 1/2 weeks, we had 3 calves die, tractor tire issues, sickness, vehicle problems and just a bunch of general calamity that is too much to list! At one point I was almost hesitant to leave the driveway because it had been a peaceful day so far and I didn’t want something crazy to happen away from home! What had been happening at home was enough!

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Breaking It Up

This time of year, we are preparing for winter. Hay is in the barn and calves are hitting the ground. But, of utmost importance is the planting of winter pastures. Our cattle do their best growing on winter rye grass during the cooler temps of winter in the south. So it’s time to start breaking it up!

Some of the pastures can be “over seeded,” which means they are planted by the seed drill and no other work is needed. But for some of the fields, the prep work is more intense and takes longer than the actual planting.

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New life

a brand new baby is new life on the farm

It’s that time of year, fall calving season has started! We are anxiously waiting and watching for all the new babies to arrive. It’s an exciting time to see if the planned matings will bring heifers as hoped, and to see the much anticipated new life running and playing on the farm.

I sat in the pasture and watched a birth this week. I’ve seen it before many times but this time God spoke as I watched and anticipated the arrival. I haven’t written in a while. Life has been extremely busy since late spring and most weeks I’ve barely gotten the have to’s done. My “real” jobs have had to come first and even some of them have lacked due to just not enough time. So for Him to speak and say, “Write this” was long overdue!

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