Watchin' potatoes grow . . .: May 2010

THE FARMER
Without delay he's up each day before the crack of dawn. After breakfast, a kiss from his wife, he yawns and pulls his work boots on.
Out the door he stands with pause to smile at the gold-blue sky. The rooster crows and the man steps off with purpose in his stride.
There's livestock to feed and fences to mend, till the soil and plant some seed. His list of chores has no end for there's a hungry world to feed.
This is what he's called to do as steward of God's good Earth. Like his father and the fathers before, 'twas passed to him by birth.
The sun has set and he's earned the right to relax on his old back porch. He shuts his eyes and breaths in the night praying tomorrow he'll rise once more.
-Debra B.-

Dirt, bugs, baby chicks, baby kitties, tractors, trucks, these are a few of my son's favorite things! Oh how they love to get Back in the Tractor again.

Jett made sure that we made some cupcakes for all to enjoy. Most especially him.

And the best part . . . . Mmmmmmm!

You have to realize that heading to the farm is no easy task. Getting the kids all fed, dressed, happy, lunch for Rhett, and most importantly, trying to time my arrival to the field juuust right. To make one round in a field can take up to 30 minutes. Then Rhett has to stop the tractor at the one end to get more seed and fertilizer in the tractor. If I get to the field right when he has just started a new round, well lets just say I have to listen to crying kids for the next half hour. Then we get loaded in the tractor and the kids are somehow always hungry again. Then the button pushing begins, don't touch this, and don't touch that, I want to sit here, he wants to sit there. Rhett is talking on the radio telling us to quiet down he can't hear, Jory is crying to get down, Jett needs to go to the bathroom, all five of us crammed into a not so large tractor cab. You get the picture. But then something happens, Rhett and I look at each other with our land and three beautiful boys all around us and realize that Life is good. We wouldn't want our lives any other way than what it is here and now. We will never have this moment again.

This is what we have worked for and this is what we have always dreamed of.