This day in History

Febuary, 21 in the year of our Lord, and the beginning of a new millenium, 2000.
After recieving several harley davidson valentines cards, and seeing more of the state of Missouri that I thought exhisted( i didn't even know the state exhisted two weeks before) we are to embark on a journey for home, the the journey here was anxious, to see old friends, the journey now home is anxious to go, anxious not to be gone, but to return with our life in a ryder truck. We have placed a oath upon a parcel of earth, for us to buy it upon the sale of our home in Colorado. The land is beautiful, the house...well the house is manageable. The excitement is almost unbearable as we see what the Lord is doing, and the road ahead is one of learning and growing.

Febuary, 21 in the year of our Lord, 2006,
Wow six years, to stop and look back, it strikes you with awe, The Lord has worked His hand and dealt graciously!
Having gone from a fat city kid (who had only ever seen a cow from the car window as we drove in the "country") to being a young man who has seen more hay than days of exhistance.
Both Dad and Momma having been raised in the city, we had no idea what we were getting into, but with out hardly a thought we dove head long into farming, but to look now I would say more so than farming animals, we were farming a family.
We were all on the same curve of learning...learning exactly how to keep 40 chickens alive long enough to kill them, or trying to keep a freezing calf alive (in the bath tub), working till the sun nearly rose again, loading hay, using every once of energy, sweating hot when it is down to 70 at night(no one told us it got hot here), but we have learned it together.

The road having been rough, we have the battle scars to show, but we have been blessed!!!

To look to the road ahead, preparing to enter a different stage of life, I look to the road behind me, thankful for the lessons we have learned!