Category Archives: Farming

The Glory of Purpose

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Doc Arnett

These may well be the ugliest apple trees I have ever seen, Continue reading →

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One Piece at a Time

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Whether you’re talking about mills or marriages, or a whole lot of other things, fixing one part is a start to things working better. Continue reading →

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Rain Dance

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Doc Arnett

This sort of freshening
does not often come in August:
soft and slow,
a gentle seeping
from cloud to earth, Continue reading →

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Cider Makin’

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Doc Arnett

In the middle of August, on a Saturday that seems more like September, Randa and I are making apple cider from the windfall apples that we picked up in the three-tree orchard last evening. Continue reading →

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The Sound and the Fury

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Doc Arnett

To be sure, there are times for righteous indignation in a wicked world. But we should also keep in mind that we were not saved by the whip with which Jesus drove the money-mongers from the temple. Continue reading →

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Redirection

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Doc Arnett

For all the promise of the skies and all the signs of cloud and breeze, the longed-for rain did not come. Continue reading →

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Hard Ground

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Sometimes we are called to a task
that we cannot quite complete
but must make a beginning,
leaving its finishing until
the soil is softer
or we are strengthened, Continue reading →

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Breaking Free

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I needed some more steel fence posts to extend the drying pasture just a bit before all of the grass has turned to brown. I could have gone to town and bought another dozen new T-posts Continue reading →

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Answered Prayer

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Doc Arnett

After these weeks of triple digit heat
in a summer that began in April,
this second season of drought Continue reading →

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An Unseasonable Heat

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Doc Arnett

The grass on berm and bank
is dry and stiff,
the color of despair. Continue reading →

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