Work, Work, and Off-Site Work
8/10/07 - 6th Day - After Breakfast. We've been pretty busy around here. It seems the days go by so fast. Danielle and the girls have been sewing and doing a lot of crafts. We have been working with Pita, saddling her when we can and leading her with one of the girls on her back. She is doing really well and seems born to it. Holga and Maria should be dropping their calves any day now, but no news yet. Neither has Luella the pig showed any signs of dropping piglets. She is just fat.
Yesterday, for the first time in 8 years I left the land to go work a "day job". It was only day labor with a local "vacation" rancher, but it qualifies as a "day job". I call him a vacation rancher because he is one of the many ranchers around here who do not live here. They live in a city somewhere, and they have made lots of money and they have "some land" out in this beautiful country. Some of them have a hundred or so acres - some have well over a thousand. Most of them either have full time ranch hands who work the land, or they hire workers to come run fences, clear brush, etc. The fella we worked for lives in the city and calls his 300 acre ranch his "play place". HIs wife has a "play place" up in the mountains of New Mexico. It was good, hard work, and we were paid well - which is nice. Brother's David and Kelly worked with me. The guy really liked us and said that we worked hard, so he paid us an extra dollar an hour. I have been thinking about working some day work for some time, but for years I either did not have the time - or I was afraid my work and writing would suffer too much. But it has become clear that most (of course not all) of the folks who partake of the ministry have no intention of supporting it. That's all up to God of course, and we are pleased in whatever direction He would move us. I was always afraid that abandoning the ministry (even part time) would be a curse on those who partake in it freely - but that too, is up to God.
Robert returns home this morning! We are pleased that our son Robert is going to be returning home from his Yankee wanderings. I look forward to debriefing him and starting his deprogramming.
The crew building Brother David's barn has almost completed it. Don't know how much longer, but it should go fairly quickly.
The gardens are hurting from a lack of rain, but we are praying and continue to hope for the best. We have been watering some using David's well - but you really can't water enough when it is close to 100 degrees and dry.
Hope all is well with you all,
Michael Bunker
Yesterday, for the first time in 8 years I left the land to go work a "day job". It was only day labor with a local "vacation" rancher, but it qualifies as a "day job". I call him a vacation rancher because he is one of the many ranchers around here who do not live here. They live in a city somewhere, and they have made lots of money and they have "some land" out in this beautiful country. Some of them have a hundred or so acres - some have well over a thousand. Most of them either have full time ranch hands who work the land, or they hire workers to come run fences, clear brush, etc. The fella we worked for lives in the city and calls his 300 acre ranch his "play place". HIs wife has a "play place" up in the mountains of New Mexico. It was good, hard work, and we were paid well - which is nice. Brother's David and Kelly worked with me. The guy really liked us and said that we worked hard, so he paid us an extra dollar an hour. I have been thinking about working some day work for some time, but for years I either did not have the time - or I was afraid my work and writing would suffer too much. But it has become clear that most (of course not all) of the folks who partake of the ministry have no intention of supporting it. That's all up to God of course, and we are pleased in whatever direction He would move us. I was always afraid that abandoning the ministry (even part time) would be a curse on those who partake in it freely - but that too, is up to God.
Robert returns home this morning! We are pleased that our son Robert is going to be returning home from his Yankee wanderings. I look forward to debriefing him and starting his deprogramming.
The crew building Brother David's barn has almost completed it. Don't know how much longer, but it should go fairly quickly.
The gardens are hurting from a lack of rain, but we are praying and continue to hope for the best. We have been watering some using David's well - but you really can't water enough when it is close to 100 degrees and dry.
Hope all is well with you all,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 8/10/2007 06:09:00 AM
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