It doesn’t matter what species you are, when the seasons change there is a time where everyone gets sick. It starts with a runny nose, then escalates to a temperature and by the time you realize you are sick it’s too late. A few days in bed, without treatment will assist the cold into knocking you out for a few days but add in some cold medicine, decrease the symptoms and your body gets the rest it needs to recover in a timely manner. The same goes for cattle, they enjoy the colder months, I mean they are built with a thick hair coat and ability to thrive on forage. But they get colds and they need the same treatment that we (humans) need, so her we are giving a calf some antibiotics due to its runny nose and temperature late last night. As a farmer the animals schedule and needs trump ours every time, it didn’t matter that it was late, supper was waiting to go into the oven at my house or that we had hay to mow. The only thing that mattered was making sure the calf started to feel better. My daughter, 12 months old, being used to the barn sat in her stroller watching us doctor the calf. She didn’t fuss at all and maybe they were talking to each other because as soon as we got home her nose started to run and her temperature went up. So my daughter and her calf both received attention last night. We had pizza for supper and after an 18 hour day I headed for bed. When I went to bed I felt good knowing that we had helped an animal that it and that its body was getting the much needed rest it needed for recovery. The truth is we haven’t even headed full on into the season change so I am sure this wont be the last time I get extra barn time this Fall.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
New beginnings
I am exhausted all the time, Fall is my favorite season but the time leading up to Fall can downright knock the wind outta ya. With to much rain here in Ohio we have been fighting to get that much needed third cutting of hay. The orchardgrass is almost to mature so the fight is on to harvest before that happens. To make matters worse the country seems to be in a mess of Natural distasters, wildfires and drought so any hay harvested will be like gold.
Fairs are ending for us, this has been the second week in a row of visiting two county fairs. I love the fair, some people we only see at the fair so this is a very important time. Our heifer, shown above, has been a great girl this season and has turned many heads. I am glad my husband has a keen eye for genetics but it bothers me that once the sale calves are broke to lead and tame we sell them to kids for 4-H projects. I like having the calves around they are always so playful and happy in the fields and just waiting for me to come and pet them. But the time is around the corner for the kids to come pick up their stock and enjoy them the way I have for the last seven months.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Where has the time gone!
I took a break from blogging, as I see it the break was over a year but now I am making an effort to bring my farm to the Internet. According to the farm Bureau over 98% of Americans live off the farm meaning cities and since I am one person in the 2% of Americans living on a working farm, I feel it is my responsibility to let you know how I live and Where I come from. I read a lot of books, everyone in my family are avid readers but lately I have been reading about city women coming into the county and marring ranchers. These women have become famous for their unique way of telling the world about their wonderful husbands and their new found appreciation for farming. Living in a farming community and going to an Agricultural college, the lust and appreciation for farming and our farm men wasn't lost on me. What is a challenge is explaining the lifestyle, the only way of life I have ever known, and how it compares to a life in the city. I am not as eloquent as those women previously mentioned, I have never wore or physically touched a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes so bear with me. Maybe this blog wont just teach you about Where I Come From but will also a window into where YOU Come from!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
How to reach your full potential for God.
How to reach your full potential for God.
This book is a spiritual guide for people who have strayed or thought they have lost their way. Although, I think it would benefit anyone who needed encouragement and help with their own spirituality. I read this during a time of extreme personal trials and although there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it seems to take a lot of time to reach the end. To write a review on something as personal as your walk with God is difficult. Everyone will find something unique and right-on about this book and I think it is important for everyone to read the book and be reminded on what your strengths are. I read this as a guide for how I should live my life and not a reminder of all the ways I have messed up until now. It is natural to stumble and fall but the quicker you pick youself up and get back on track the better you will be. I would highly recommend it!
This book is a spiritual guide for people who have strayed or thought they have lost their way. Although, I think it would benefit anyone who needed encouragement and help with their own spirituality. I read this during a time of extreme personal trials and although there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it seems to take a lot of time to reach the end. To write a review on something as personal as your walk with God is difficult. Everyone will find something unique and right-on about this book and I think it is important for everyone to read the book and be reminded on what your strengths are. I read this as a guide for how I should live my life and not a reminder of all the ways I have messed up until now. It is natural to stumble and fall but the quicker you pick youself up and get back on track the better you will be. I would highly recommend it!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
kabul 24
Kabul 24 by Henry Arnold and Ben Pearson
Kabul 24 is a visit to Afghanistan before many people in America knew who the Taliban was and what it stood for. A great story of personal conviction and internal determination, Kabul 24, tells the story of eight SNI aid workers capture and imprisonment in a Taliban region. I love books like this that take you away from your current situation and place you in the middle of a war far away from your cozy couch. No matter what is asked from the captives, they maintain an overwhelming sense of hope and faith that sees them through this event. A chilling and haunting tale, Kabul 24 is a great read for anyone interested in stories about human triumph or stories about faith in challenging situations.
Danielle
Thomas Nelson book Review Blogger
Kabul 24 is a visit to Afghanistan before many people in America knew who the Taliban was and what it stood for. A great story of personal conviction and internal determination, Kabul 24, tells the story of eight SNI aid workers capture and imprisonment in a Taliban region. I love books like this that take you away from your current situation and place you in the middle of a war far away from your cozy couch. No matter what is asked from the captives, they maintain an overwhelming sense of hope and faith that sees them through this event. A chilling and haunting tale, Kabul 24 is a great read for anyone interested in stories about human triumph or stories about faith in challenging situations.
Danielle
Thomas Nelson book Review Blogger
Monday, October 5, 2009
Find Your Strongest Life Book Review
Find your strongest life by Marcus Buckingham, gives examples of women from different backgrounds and why the choices made affec their lives in either a negative or positive way. An easy to understand and quick read, Find your strongest life, makes many good suggestions on how to be true to yourself.
Overall, this book was a compellation of ideas on how to make better choices for yourself and family. It would have been helpful to have the website available for access and see what type of person I am but I agree with his theory for happiness. Women work away from home and have to balance family life, add in the ability to nurture and grow a healthy marriage and there are bound to be times when you can feel overwhelmed. Find your strongest life, does not focus on what makes you happy he leaves that up to you to decide but it explains how the choice you make effect your overall happiness. For example, you take a job with a better paycheck to make a more comfortable life for yourself and family but when you add in the extra stress on yourself and hours away from home, it makes for an unhappy family. In this situation, the money may be helpful but what are you willing to sacrifice for financial excess, as opposed to family bonding. Find your strongest life is a great addition to the other business/family life books on the shelf but it was not much different from the other books available on the subject. However, I would recommend this book to women who need guidance, due to the fact it is quick and easy to understand, making it wonderful for busy women.
Overall, this book was a compellation of ideas on how to make better choices for yourself and family. It would have been helpful to have the website available for access and see what type of person I am but I agree with his theory for happiness. Women work away from home and have to balance family life, add in the ability to nurture and grow a healthy marriage and there are bound to be times when you can feel overwhelmed. Find your strongest life, does not focus on what makes you happy he leaves that up to you to decide but it explains how the choice you make effect your overall happiness. For example, you take a job with a better paycheck to make a more comfortable life for yourself and family but when you add in the extra stress on yourself and hours away from home, it makes for an unhappy family. In this situation, the money may be helpful but what are you willing to sacrifice for financial excess, as opposed to family bonding. Find your strongest life is a great addition to the other business/family life books on the shelf but it was not much different from the other books available on the subject. However, I would recommend this book to women who need guidance, due to the fact it is quick and easy to understand, making it wonderful for busy women.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Sarah's Key
Book Information
Sarah’s Key
By: Tatiana De Rosnay
The phrase, “If these walls could talk” becomes a cornerstone for Sarah’s Key, in this instance the walls not only talk they scream! A tragic story, so intense it is locked away for generations.
The story beings with Sarah’s family being confronted by the Nazi having to be transferred to a holding facility within France to await deportation to a concentration camp. In an attempt to hide her brother, she places him in a secret hiding place, thinking she will be able to come back and get him later. Time passes and when she does return to the cupboard, she finds it is too late to save him. The parallel with Julia Jarmond begins when her family begins renovating the same apartment occupied by Sarah before the Nazi invasion and the same location where her brother died. Sarah’s whereabouts become lost mid-way through the book and the focus turns to Julia, who unlocks Sarah’s past and changes her own life.
Subtly addicting, Sarah’s Key, requires the reader to remember the victims of the holocaust and paints a vivid picture of the struggle to survivor after that chapter of life has closed. The question remains, what story do your walls possess and would you want to know even if they wanted to tell you?
Sarah’s Key
By: Tatiana De Rosnay
The phrase, “If these walls could talk” becomes a cornerstone for Sarah’s Key, in this instance the walls not only talk they scream! A tragic story, so intense it is locked away for generations.
The story beings with Sarah’s family being confronted by the Nazi having to be transferred to a holding facility within France to await deportation to a concentration camp. In an attempt to hide her brother, she places him in a secret hiding place, thinking she will be able to come back and get him later. Time passes and when she does return to the cupboard, she finds it is too late to save him. The parallel with Julia Jarmond begins when her family begins renovating the same apartment occupied by Sarah before the Nazi invasion and the same location where her brother died. Sarah’s whereabouts become lost mid-way through the book and the focus turns to Julia, who unlocks Sarah’s past and changes her own life.
Subtly addicting, Sarah’s Key, requires the reader to remember the victims of the holocaust and paints a vivid picture of the struggle to survivor after that chapter of life has closed. The question remains, what story do your walls possess and would you want to know even if they wanted to tell you?
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