Catching Up

One morning while we were in Florida, we received a text from Son #2.  "Is Gus up to date with his shots?"  We worried that he had bit someone, but it turns out he had cornered a big raccoon in a shed and got bit and scratched in the ensuing fight.  Son #2 dispatched the 'coon  and Gus was healed up by the time we got home.

For Christmas I had asked for, as a gift from my children, an iPod with all of our music CD's on it.  I did receive the iPod, and while we were in Florida Son #1 loaded every CD (and some cassettes) he could find in our house onto it.  After we got home, we loaded the ones we had with us in our car onto it.  We now have an iPod that contains 319 albums of music!

A few nights after we were home we had the opportunity to sing on the Zion's Harp recording project.  The recording was held at the Roanoke church.  It was a blessed and enjoyable evening.

We got to babysit all three of our grandchildren at times in the last two weeks.  I'm starting to feel more and more like a grandpa.

The packing plant that we ship most of our hogs to had a customer appreciation meal/meeting last week.  I came home with a free package of Farmland bacon and a package of mesquite marinaded pork loin.  The Smithfield Farmland plant in Monmouth processed over 3 million head of hogs last year.  They can process 8,000 pigs in an 8 hour shift, which produces, along with other cuts, 1.3 million pounds of bacon per week.  All of the offal (heads,ears, tongues, tails, feet, etc.) gets exported to China where it is in high demand.

On the farm we are getting ready for spring; trying to get machinery ready, fixing tile holes and waterways, hauling manure, and finishing up book-work and taxes.  And getting all our documents and financial information rounded up that are needed to renew our operating loan.


Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 17:6