The Archives - July 2008

Road Test

Test run on the freshly-restored 1950 Ford 8N:

The Graduate

My firstborn son graduated from twelve years of high school this month. I figure his Mom also deserves a diploma, because she's had to stay at least a week ahead of him in his studies for the past twelve years, too.

Congratulations, Chad!

Tornado!

Our neighbors who live about 4.5 miles west of us took the photo below last night of a tornado forming under a storm cloud. They also got some really dark, grainy video of the funnel cloud as it touched down, headed towards our farm.

We woke up to find one of our cedar trees next to the house knocked down, but it was already rotted at the bottom and we were waiting for it to come down any way. However, some of the tin roofing on one of our outbuildings was also torn up pretty bad, so I suspect we may have either had the tornado pass very close, or at least had some pretty high rotational winds. We never really noticed it inside the house, other than the odd fact that every window I ran around to close had rain blowing in it (all four sides of the house).

The Lord is good, and we're thankful for the very minor damage we had!

A Small Project…

Inbetween all the other projects going on around here, I've been restoring our 1950 Ford 8N tractor. It's been a challenging project, which has taught me much about perseverance. It should hopefully be done in a couple weeks, just in time to cultivate the corn.

A Crop of Kittens

Ya'll drop us a line when you can, now!