Farming: Day 1

So it officially begins. Planting. The day was perfect...65 degrees...no wind....lots of sunshine. Amid the hustle of making sure all the technology was working (or rather that we knew how to work it...), getting the seed boxes loaded, making sure we had all the inventory on hand... there was my daughter. Riding around in circles with her jellybean helmet, princess bike and a big smile on her face. She would get off every five minutes to see what everyone was doing; try to catch the illusive kitties; pick up a tool that someone needed 30 seconds later; skip around the planter; always in constant motion.
Kenton is cleaning out fertilizer tanks; making sure the sprayer works so that he can spray fertilizer on the newly planted field; cranking up the motors to run the pumps on the sprayer, delivering more seeds to the field; always in constant motion.
Then there is me. Mentally counting how many people I have to feed for lunch, making sure the technology is in sync with the office computer, telling Skylar to give the tools back and quit chasing the kitties; wishing I could have finished my cup of coffee before the rush started; always in constant motion.

There you have a brief picture of the first day of planting. The scene will continue for about 4-6 weeks (depending on the weather.) We'll have days when nothing works and days when we are a well oiled machine. At the end of the day, just before we drop off to sleep, I wil thank God. What a blessing it is to live this life. My husband works at a job that he loves. By the very nature of what farming is, Kenton must have faith that the seed will sprout. We have total trust that, even if the crop fails, God will provide. "The LORD gives and the LORD takes. Blessed be the name of the LORD!!" My daughter is happy and healthy. She gets dirty from head to toe, but her smile outshines it all. And I...well, let's just say I totally get the verse that states, "...and she {Mary} kept all these things and pondered them in her heart."