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the farmer’s alarm clock goes off at 3:40 am… then 3:45… then again at 3:47… he gets out of bed, …

and so seeding begins… after a snowy beginning to May we are finally in the fields… my mother-in-law handled meals …

“life is unpredictable, It changes with the seasons, Even your coldest winter, Happens for the best of reasons, And though …

have you ever ran into someone who is so ‘put-together’ that it makes you feel disgusting about yourself? it’s not …

I made two trips to Wal-Mart this weekend… once to get toilet paper and king size bed linens… the next …

I’m not sure the extent of it… but I feel like there might be a significant amount of lying going …

the calm before the storm… the week before harvest is in full swing and farm wives everywhere are trying to …

this has been the hottest seeding on record… and by that I mean I have not kept any records and …

I listen to a lot of podcasts… it used to be audiobooks and then I’d tell people I read the …

combining canola… and needing buns for the kids lunches… so I made Tracey’s cheese buns she has told me about… …

I’m in Calgary watching Food Network with two of my children in a hotel room… while the farmer is combining …

in the past fifty days or so we have only combined around seventeen of them… this means there has been …

my farm is nestled between two towns, one with a population hovering around 200 and the other at around 300… …

I feel undesired… not by the farmer… I feel sufficiently desired by him… just realizing that I’m at an age …

disclaimer… this meal is not very healthy… unless you are a pro-athlete and burning insane amounts of calories per day …

my days are spent with mundane chores that I try to value and appreciate… making lunches, organizing plans for the …

the first meal to the field is always a little ‘hairy’… not sure when to cook things, when to pack …