It's Friday and I'm sure I'll make it through the week but I'm not totally sure at the moment (it's about lunch time, so life is always darkest right before the lunch break).
This is my inspiration for the rest of the busy week:
It's been one of those weeks where it's been super busy. I know you know these weeks as well. I've hosted a book club at my house, met with my sister-in-law to get ready for our jr high ministry that's starting back up, had a youth group kickoff party, a rehearsal and rehearsal dinner to attend as my husband is in a wedding this weekend, have ladies fellow ship at church I need to go to, wedding gifts still to buy, groceries to purchase, a wedding to go to, and I'm sure I've missed something that'll come to me later. It's Friday and I'm sure I'll make it through the week but I'm not totally sure at the moment (it's about lunch time, so life is always darkest right before the lunch break). This is my inspiration for the rest of the busy week: What's yours?? :)
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My dad is a wheat farmer and retired cattle rancher. The farm has been in our family for three generations. I loved growing up on a farm in Eastern Montana and I love to tell people about it :) Now that I've lived in several different states and cities, I realize how unique my home "town" is and how special it was. How many others have gone to a two-room school house? Or got to go speak at the state capital to save your school from closing? Or drove to driver's ed at age 14? Or got to have meals with mom and dad almost every day since dad is his own boss? Or had the same history teacher their dad had in high school? Or got to be in many school functions and teams and such because the school was too small for students to not be involved in everything? Or had the most spectacular sky to watch every night because there is zero light pollution? Or .. (list could go on forever :) In college esp, but now as well, I craved going home. I need to get away from the city and away from so many people and recharge (have you ever felt claustrophobic when you are around a lot of people? I have!) . I'm not sure my husband knew he would turn in to Farmer Jay one week a year when he asked me to marry him, but the last two years that is exactly what's been happening! Last year he went to Montana without me for a week to help dad with harvest, and when he came back we both decided that it was a terrible to be separated for a whole week and that I would go with him the next year. We just got back from spending a whole week in Montana. I'm so thankful that Jason is so willing to take time off from his own job to go help my dad with harvest. Jason bounced around in old trucks unloading wheat from trucks to bins and I got to spend time with mom and time with dad in the combine. I don't think I've ever had much time alone with mom so it was fun to go on walks in the mornings with her and to make lunches and dinner for the men with her and to take them out to the field. I also got to spend some time with her at the Dinosaur Museum she volunteers at every week. (FYI it's pretty sweet. Check out the link here http://www.creationtruth.org/ ) It's hard to capture everything that goes along with harvest. How EVERYONE back home are farmers and are all doing the same work. (There are never coversation starters of "so what do you do for a living?" out there). How all the men are getting antsy and nervous as they keep one eye on the wheat to watch for when it's ripe enough to cut and the other eye on the sky praying and hoping for the weather to cooperate. They are also all watching each other and are secretly keeping tally of who is almost done with harvest, who isn't, and who hired custom combiners. It's also a tragedy to have a combine sit still when it could be moving so the wives jump in to keep it going while the men take a short break to eat the delicious supper that is laid out on the tail gate of a pickup. Occasionally, harvest also can bring the heartache of watching dark clouds come and to sit helplessly by as hail stones ruin the crops that were supposed to help the famer and his family make it another year. Overall it was a great trip! Farmer Jay was pretty worn out by the end of our trip, but he has already talked about the next time we go out for harvest :) I'm also excited for next year as well! Here are a few pictures from the trip. I only took pictures of the sky, and you'll see why :) I had to steal a few pictures from mom to have any pictures with people in it. Below, Jason thought the size of their water jugs was an indicator of who has the easier job. By the look on dad's face, I'm not sure he agreed ;) Below we were trying to photo bomb a picture mom was taking :) But we ended up being the picture...
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Megan FremontI'm a Christian. I'm a wife to a wonderful man and a mother to a sweet little girl and a handsome little man. I've lived in MT, MN, KS, CA, N.Z., I like to travel. I love dark chocolate and coffee. I grew up on a farm and never learned to drive stick, I went to a two-room school house for nine years, I love Fall in MN (except for the fact I'm always cold), I miss the Montana Sky, and I'm new to blogging. Archives
October 2017
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