Life in the country

We bought a new Kubota tractor today! It's not a big one but it's all we need right now.

We got the trailer, box blade, and brush hog with it.

Jude, in his underwear of course, watching daddy on the tractor. I promise my child does wear clothes sometimes : )

Jimmy is, or was, a city boy. Life on the farm has taken some getting used to for him. Actually, when we met ten years ago I never thought in a million years that I would end up back on the farm. I was going to move off and be a big city girl. Well......Edmond, where I went to college, was as far as I made it until we were lured back by a free house to live in on my parents old farm (the one I grew up in until my parents built their new one at the dairy farm). It wasn't until I grew older that I truly appreciated life in the wide open country. 

I think back to my childhood when I would ride on my moms lap in the tractor until after dark farming the land. In my memory, I can still smell the scent of fresh plowed dirt or fresh cut alfalfa lingering in the summer evening air. Every time I smell it now it takes me back and I am so grateful to have experienced it as a child. Farming is a lost trade. Perhaps the most honest, close to earth occupation that has ever existed. Without farmers, the world would starve to death. Sadly small farmers every day are pushed out of business by the big corporate farms. Monsanto is controlling the seed and our quality of food is suffering, but that's a whole other blog post I could rant about. Anyway, with our new tractor, we are just one step closer to building our own little homestead on our own little piece of the earth : )