I knew early in life that I was not going to marry a farmer nor a preacher. I'm too lazy to be a farmer's wife. And trust me - when I was younger, I was not preacher's wife material. No way!
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Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of a battle ! ! ! !
You have cherry PLANTS??? We have a cherry TREE, but I've never seen a cherry plant
My two favorite seasons of the year are STRAWBERRY season (last week of May thru about the 3rd week of June) and CORN season (about the 4th of July thru the end of August). There is nothing in the world like fresh, homegrown, picked-an-hour-ago Ohio corn!! Sweet, sweet, sweet!!!
When we were kids, we grew huge gardens and canned everything alllllllllllll summer long!! We started canning when strawberries came in; always seemed to be the very next day after school got out for the summer. We'd have to go to the fields by 6:00 a.m. so we could get the best berries, then go home, wash jars, clean berries, help make strawberry jam and freeze the rest.
My dad farmed my grandma's acreage. So we spent a whole lot of time following behind the tractor doing things like planting field corn or potatoes or tomatoes. I don't ever remember ever having to fill in the soy beans tho Then we'd have to weed our gardens. Then help harvest and can all that stuff. Plus, we always raised our own cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits, sheep (just 3 or 4 times for those). So of course, we had to help on butchering day.
And now you want to know why I buy most of my stuff at the grocery store or the meatmarket or the farmers market??
I think she is talking about cherry tomatoes.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I knew early in life that I was not going to marry a farmer nor a preacher. I'm too lazy to be a farmer's wife. And trust me - when I was younger, I was not preacher's wife material. No way!
Lucky for Walt, huh? You absolutely married the right guy.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
My Dad was a preacher and a farmer also. He pastored churches, held revivals and farmed too. He came from a long line of farmers from the early years even before the Revolutionary war in which one of my forefathers served. Farming was in the genes, I guess. Our family farmed mostly cotton in Central Louisiana since before the Civil War which tradition passed on down to my father also. When I was young, we planted, chopped, cultivated and picked 40 acres of cotton each year. It was very hard work and some of my family still farms cotton on the same land that my father owned then. The farms is much, much larger now and is not confined to just cotton though cotton and soy beans are the chief crops. Ever since I've been an adult, I've wanted to go back to the farm and work the fields. There is great joy in seeing the earth yield its bountiful harvest. So, when I finally retired, I bought these few acres here in E. Texas and built a house on it. Of course, just for old time sakes, I planted a row of cotton and picked it by hand. How it brought back memories. I planted some pecan trees, a few pear trees, peach trees, apricot trees, plum trees, one lemon and two orange trees. The Lord and I both love figs so I planted seven fig trees on the side of a sloping hill.
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Staying Busy REPENTING and DOING THE FIRST WORKS
Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to plant a garden, because it takes up too much time.
Every year I plant one anyway.
Last year I had over 50 tomato plants as well as a bunch of other stuff.
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