Rocks

In the last two weeks we were blessed to partake of Holy Communion, Palm Sunday with two Sunday School programs, Good Friday services with a singing afterwards, and Easter Sunday services followed by a family dinner.  I am thankful for salvation and the spiritual opportunities we have because of Christ's sacrifice.

We haven't had a lot of rain this spring, so the fields have dried down nicely.  I did a little fieldwork the Saturday before Palm Sunday, and then on Monday started planting soybeans. We hit it pretty hard because conditions were good, and I finished Thursday.  I planted my first field of corn on Friday, and then we got a little shower Friday night.  It rained Sunday and Sunday night, and it rained again this evening.  I don't know when we will get back in the fields now.

I have had three repair projects waiting for me; bad wheel bearing on my seed tender, bad fan control board in my planter tractor, and bad tach sensor on my tillage tractor.  I was able to get two of the three fixed today.  I am waiting on a special tool before I can tackle the third.

We are blessed with good soil here in our area with few problems with rocks.  But, there are numerous old farmstead sites from many years ago where old foundations were buried.  In the old days they didn't bury deep enough, so over time with freezing and thawing, rocks, bricks and concrete chunks work their way to the surface.  Every couple of years we have to go over these spots and clean up the newly exposed trash.  I spent most of the afternoon on Saturday picking up from on old farm site that the buildings were gone before I was born!

 In soybean fields that were not tilled last fall, henbit is really coming up this spring.  We have a neighbor who has an entire field covered with the beautiful purple flower.  Unfortunately it is a weed and will need to be destroyed before planting, but it sure adds color to an otherwise drab look to the fields this time of year.  Actually, henbit can be eaten in salads or cooked.  It also supposedly has medicinal uses.  I snapped a picture while planting next to this field.

Some seed fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.                              Matthew 13:5,6