Saturday, October 3, 2020

Robert lived 95 years+ and saw his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren...praying for them daily!

Dad and Joy heading out to bale corn stalks behind Ruth mom raking them into a winrow... Family job shared with JOY!  The lunch pail had snacks for Joy and dad including candy!
Joy has her own seat and seatbelt to share the farming experience with her dad.  Her cow boots and her sweet smile come easily as she gets to be part of this big job.  They did 100 bales in a few hours with 400 more to go!
Joy and Dad in the baler...
Ruth leads the way with the rake... teamwork!

Today is the ending of Job's story of losing it all only to regain what he had lost and more... the final words reminds me of my father living here with me now for going on 6 months on the farm!  

Job 42...Job lived a hundred and forty years;
and he saw his children, his grandchildren,
and even his great-grandchildren.
Then Job died, old and full of years.

Very true of my father, with whom I just shared morning prayer.  He always ends our prayer with placing his "children with their spouses, grandchildren with spouses, and my 58 great-grandchildren."  He lifts up each one of us, and on Monday he prays for them using their first and middle name!


A gift to see our newest great-grandchild... Baby Birdie smiling for all of us in this special picture with her mommy!
Joy Jean here with grandma watercoloring a picture of her with Birdie, grandma, cows and kittens, and the barn behind!
Praying with dad this wonderful Saturday morning a bit late due to picking up Mary from swimming and bringing Joy home while they preg check about 150 cows this morning in a big family job!  My part is to help my father and Joy here, and also some possible running with kids.  John got the job of watching David play his football game this morning!   A good Godfather job indeed!
3 years ago it was applesauce day... this year it is preg checking day for the family!

Joy loves her blues in her painting!


Joy is so adorable that I just had to get closer to her sweetness!
It has been so special to have my father meet and watch my newest grandchild and his newest great-grandchild grow and develop!  Such a gift to the two of us to have new life to celebrate - our love grows bigger with each new little one!
Using mom's prayer book with her looking on as we share prayer!  She is so very much with us as we have her in this wonderful picture taken just 2 weeks before she died quickly in a day after a fall.  How I miss her, but know that she is keeping one foot in heaven as she intercedes for her huge family of 140+.

With mom praying with us we are reminded on  a close personal level that we are striving to join her and that we cling to this truth in the Gospel today - Jesus telling us that..."rejoice because your names are written in heaven."  Yes!  Lord!  

Ruth visiting great-grandpa with Joy...
Over to help Pat... prayers while he climbs grain bins over and over this time of year!  Lord, help him to be safe!

This is too scary for me to do!

Pat putting in a fence around the corn field... the 170 cows will be there tonight after the preg checking it done!
I drove the 4 wheeler with the posts and the step downs to hold the wire.

More teamwork on a pretty afternoon.

15 paces between posts...
Ruth and Paul were raking and baling on the other side of the field while we put in the fence on the other.  Then Ed came and started combining between the two jobs!
The cows lined up at the fence thinking that Pat would give them more grass... they have to wait a day and then they will join the others on the corn stalks... such an amazing sight to see all those cows out on the pretty stalks grazing.

A big space for them to spread out!


Bringing across the cows from the back pasture is another family job...

Here come the cows!!!
Joy and I help them turn into the yard...

David and Paul did a lot of leg work... running to get them where we wanted to have them.  Pat and Rose walked behind them all across the field!
Luke and Joy get the last one in...
Gathered around mom after the job was done.  Now today the family is working together seeing if all our cows are pregnant with a calf to be born in late winter and early spring.  

Learning how to help on the farm is so great to have this young family living there now and not this old woman.  I can still help, although with my dad here it is more limited.  I did call dad a few times over the afternoon, to make sure that all was well.  His job is prayer and staying safe in his chair!
Joy is a nice friend to my kitty, who came in for some snuggles.

Jesus how we love our farm family time doing work together allows us to accomplish the job of feeding the world.  Keep all farmers safe and sane and may we always strive to reach our goal of being forever in heaven with mother, Mary, the Mother of God, Jesus, the Saints, and angels.  Lord, hear our prayers!  Bless-bless, Barbara and Joy Jean







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