A Beginning
7/27/06 - 5th Day - I guess I should have started this journal a year ago. So much has happened since we put in the first post-hole last June. Most of you know me and you've been along for the ride. A year later we have a small cabin (384 square feet!), a corral, a paddock, an incompleted root cellar and there are currently 10 of us living on the land. The work continues each day, and we are never surprised by it, or that the process driven life is the life God would have us to live.
Yesterday the fellas (Mark, Mihai and I) worked on the root cellar some more. It got up to over 100 agrees again, and it was hot in that hole. They called yesterday and told me my mower was ready to be picked up. The mower has been in the shop over two months. Then the mechanic called today and said my pickup was fixed and ready to be picked up. The pickup was in the shop since March. So, within two days two of our major pieces of equipment were fixed and ready to be picked up. The bad news is that that added up to $550 that I really didn't have. But, the good news is that we now have our work pickup and our riding mower available. For dinner last night we had fresh green beans from our garden, with some homemade fried chicken. It was really, really good.
Today I was up and answering email at 6:15 a.m. I noticed the guys were not up and working. Danielle gets up at before 5 a.m. sometimes to make breakfast, but it seems these guys have trouble getting to work before 8. Breakfast was at 7 a.m. - farm fresh eggs from our chickens, bacon, cantaloupe from our garden, blueberry muffins and cereal. I got back to work on my Galatians commentary and answering emails while the guys got down in the root cellar. In early afternoon, David, Mihai and I went to town to pickup the pickup truck and the mower and part with the $550. The pickup repair was $385 of it, and the miracle of it was that a friend had sent me a message early this morning (before we heard from the mechanic) and told me that he and his wife wanted to donate $400 to the family and ministry. I wanted to put it towards my debt that I owed on the Longhorn cow ($800). Well, then we heard from the mechanic and I had to decide that, no, we would need the $400 to pick up the truck. Miracle. So we had just enough to pick up the pickup.
Tonight my mother showed up for a visit. Her, my sister and a nephew will be in town for the next couple of days. We'll likely see them all tomorrow. Tonight we had hamburger helper and green beans from the garden. Excellent as always. The fellas are in Coleman doing their laundry. Tonight I will give the children a ride in the little trailer pulled by the newly fixed mower. They'll like that.
Michael
Yesterday the fellas (Mark, Mihai and I) worked on the root cellar some more. It got up to over 100 agrees again, and it was hot in that hole. They called yesterday and told me my mower was ready to be picked up. The mower has been in the shop over two months. Then the mechanic called today and said my pickup was fixed and ready to be picked up. The pickup was in the shop since March. So, within two days two of our major pieces of equipment were fixed and ready to be picked up. The bad news is that that added up to $550 that I really didn't have. But, the good news is that we now have our work pickup and our riding mower available. For dinner last night we had fresh green beans from our garden, with some homemade fried chicken. It was really, really good.
Today I was up and answering email at 6:15 a.m. I noticed the guys were not up and working. Danielle gets up at before 5 a.m. sometimes to make breakfast, but it seems these guys have trouble getting to work before 8. Breakfast was at 7 a.m. - farm fresh eggs from our chickens, bacon, cantaloupe from our garden, blueberry muffins and cereal. I got back to work on my Galatians commentary and answering emails while the guys got down in the root cellar. In early afternoon, David, Mihai and I went to town to pickup the pickup truck and the mower and part with the $550. The pickup repair was $385 of it, and the miracle of it was that a friend had sent me a message early this morning (before we heard from the mechanic) and told me that he and his wife wanted to donate $400 to the family and ministry. I wanted to put it towards my debt that I owed on the Longhorn cow ($800). Well, then we heard from the mechanic and I had to decide that, no, we would need the $400 to pick up the truck. Miracle. So we had just enough to pick up the pickup.
Tonight my mother showed up for a visit. Her, my sister and a nephew will be in town for the next couple of days. We'll likely see them all tomorrow. Tonight we had hamburger helper and green beans from the garden. Excellent as always. The fellas are in Coleman doing their laundry. Tonight I will give the children a ride in the little trailer pulled by the newly fixed mower. They'll like that.
Michael
posted by Michael Bunker at 7/27/2006 02:41:00 PM
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