LIFE IS A GIFT / Carolyn’s Thoughts / Mid-West Farm Life

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the direction our great country is going ,and it doesn’t look good.  The present President of our country is signing new bills and legislation into law and we don’t even know what they are or how these laws will affect our lives in the near future.

I can’t believe what’s on the TV news and the repeated non important stories told over and over by every news channel.  Are we being mind controlled to some extent by the media? I have real concerns about the future and wonder if any of you do too.  Can we do anything together as communities and friends to take control of our lives and start to build a productive and successful country ? Maybe the elections in November will help. Maybe not.   We could plan for a declining dollar and everything to become to expensive or not available.  Why not preserve our food from the garden or purchased from the Farmers market.  Plan to be ready for a quite time free from traffic and running to and fro to the store and began to enjoy a simpler life.  We really do not know what to expect in the future. It’s better to be prepared for the unknown then  to be caught unprepared.  Life  is a gift and each moment is spiritually guided.  No mater what the future holds we must continue to be positive and aware of how we’re being directed in love and peace.  Just some thoughts from my heart.

by Carolyn

BOY IT’S HOT! / Mid West Farm Life / Carolyn’s Natural Soap

Boy it’s hot!  The temperature is well over 100 degrees today in the shade.   Thank God for air conditioning!  When we lived in the trailer we never felt comfortable in heat like this, but we made it some how.

Brian just came in from milking.  It must be 115 degrees in the milk barn tonight. The things we go through to be self- sufficient and able to help others to enjoy the benefits of good quality food. Sometimes I think we have lost our minds, ha ha.  The good thing is, is that we don’t want to do any thing else and we’re happy to be living this way.  It could be, that what our Great Grandparents went through, living as farmers, has been  passed along through thought and word and placed in our subconscious minds, and has  driven  us some how, to follow in their foot steps. What ever the reasons it seems to be where God has lead us and we will be faith full.

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JOY COMES IN THE MORNING! THE CHICKENS ARE SAVED! / Mid West Farm Life / Carolyn’s Natural Soap

Well. Joy comes in the morning!  Brian got the fox!  Of course he had help. 

Dave has been coming to stand watch for several weeks and the fox has shown his red coat , pointy golden ears, long nose, and bushy white tipped tail over and over again to Dave and Brian, but neither was able to make a clear shot.  

 

One morning after milking and starting to leave the barn, Brian saw the fox run through the tall grass about 50 yards away.  He quickly grabbed his shot gun and crouched behind the green water tank.  As he gazed into the field, to his surprise the fox was looking directly at him and not moving. Even after a few seconds the fox still did not move but continued to stare at Brian. Brian thought, boy, that fox is so brave. So Brian slowly put his rifle to his shoulder and squinted as he looked down the barrel. As he was pointing the gun he could see the foxes’ golden ears poking out from the grasses next to an old hedge post. Brian took a deep breathe, and pulled the trigger,  Boom !!   When the dust settled, Brian went out to see if he got him.  Well, Brian  shot the biggest hole in the hedge pot and the yellow electric fence insulators were blasted full of buck shot.  (The fox was no more the a piece of grass with the shadow of those yellow electric fence insulators.) We laughed so hard together, when Brian told me how he shot the Fox that didn’t move.  What a life !

We are all resting easy now, as we can let the chickens run and eat, free of fear, at least for a while.

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