We had a blessed time celebrating 3 farmer birthdays while on vacation last week. We went to TN to visit our dear friend’s farm and continue healing, rejoicing and grieving Tommy being in Heaven. The children loved helping them milk their cows! Then we went on to KY and spent some time at the creation museum and ark encounter. What a blessing it was a so sweet to learn more about our heavenly Father and His creation. Our farm sitter took excellent care of the farm and all the animals in these cold days!
We are learning how to farm for God with one less team member. We started this way of life that became a passion for all of us because of Tommy’s childhood illness and we enjoy continuing it. The hardest part was figuring out how to manage the scale we have without a fulltime partner! God has been leading us along and we are finding we are still a great team and can get it done. Our heavy hearts are made light again when we see God’s hand helping us along. Sometimes through joy of new life like the puppies and sometimes through the smiles on your faces when we serve you or reminisce about Tommy!
Enjoy the veggies this week! We have some you may not recognize…..watermelon radishes and bok choi! Time for stir fry! We had a curry with Tommy’s lamb kabobs last night and it was excellent! We look forward to seeing you in a few weeks for February meat pick up. Spring will soon be here, thought it doesn’t seem like it! Please be praying that we don’t loose power as it’s hard to keep water from freezing and many other tasks become harder with power outages on the farm. We were blessed with a mild beginning to winter to allow us time to adjust to being without Tommy.
Blessings,
The Baker Team