Today Mark and I drove to the warehouse/office of Holiday Hills Christmas Trees for a day of training. Today’s training was supposed to be just for first time lot operators, but there was a couple there who did this last year. They came to support a couple of new recruits they brought in. They were able to add some ideas from their experience, so it was a good thing to have them there. Continue reading
This morning was our last at Falster Farm. We fed all the animals one last time and I took my last pictures of the place. We managed to get out through the pasture and get my car loaded onto the tow dolly, but not without wrecking the bumper of my car. We’ve been having a heck of a time with our vehicles lately! Continue reading
Today was partly sunny with some breeze. While there is still mud on the ground, it’s not such that we are afraid of sinking in up to our hubcaps when we leave tomorrow. Thank you to all those of you who were praying for us today. So far, God has been preparing a way for us! Continue reading
Nancy has been wishing for rain for the farm and she has certainly gotten her wish the last couple of days. We’ve had so much rain that I finally had to put some old political posters across from the barn door to the gate that leads to their back yard. The mud was getting to be so deep it was trying to suck us in. Continue reading
This afternoon as Mark and I were working on the chicken coop, big black clouds were gathering in the northwestern sky. The wind began to rock the coop. We had brittle fiberglass roofing on one side and we were beginning to lay corrugated metal on the other. Then it began to rain. We finally went to our RV and from there we could see the rain coming in sideways. I felt like singing, “Oh say can you see if our roof is still there?” Continue reading
Nancy and Karl sold a couple cows so they left yesterday to deliver them. They left us in charge of running the farm for the last couple days. We got the animals fed and today we did some more work on the chicken coop we’re building. The Falsters returned today. It’s sure good to have them back and in charge! Continue reading
Today was Farmer’s Market day in downtown Winnsboro. Yesterday Karl got kind of crushed by a cow so he had a doctor’s appointment this morning and couldn’t go with Nancy. She herself wasn’t feeling up to snuff, so I offered to go with her and help. There were only about five tables in this Farmer’s Market and not too many people came through so I had a chance to see all the tables and visit with the vendors. Part way through the morning Karl stopped by on his way to the doctor and left Stewart with us. Here is what I saw today: Continue reading
You know, I used to enjoy Halloween when we lived in our house. As a librarian, I gave gently used books I’d been collecting throughout the year instead of candy. I got my inspiration from an organization called Books For Treats (http://booksfortreats.org/). Last year at this time we participated in the haunted trail at our job in Oklahoma, but I didn’t enjoy it. This year I almost missed the fact that it was Halloween. Continue reading
Last night before Mark and I went to bed we noticed that our electricity wasn’t working. This morning Mark fired up the generator. He tried checking our fuse box and everything, but couldn’t find what the problem was. I went out to feed the pigs and saw Karl already in the barn. When he found out we didn’t have electricity he went to look at our situation with Mark and discovered that the problem was in the electricity coming from the cabin where we’re hooked up. Continue reading
This morning after a breakfast of garbanzo bean and coconut flour pancakes and home made sausage and raw milk at the house, Mark and I got the RV and car moved. We had to leave the car in the pasture with Folger (the horse). It was hard enough as it was to get the RV in behind the guest house and get it plugged in. Continue reading