11/21/2025
Dirty window and clean corn 🌽
This year I was late getting to thrash my corn. Each fall you get to wait for the corn to be dry enough to thrash properly and store well without molding, all of that can vary with corn variety, planting and weather. My corn was ready about October 20th, I was not 😂
The grain bin where I store my grain needed some electrical work to get the augers to work - and that turned into a long project with one thing after another getting in our way.
As a farmer, having your crops ready for harvest and not being able to, is a special kind of hell. It’s income sitting in the field and you never know what windstorm or other event could destroy it all before you get the chance to take it. I was slowly loosing my mind getting everything fixed, one hurdle after the other.
But finally the day came, we got to start harvesting! Then a truck broke down🤯. I then had to do something so hard for me… I had to ask for help. I called on another farmer to borrow a truck, and he showed up with two and an extra hand to drive them!! We were back in business! Then the combine broke 🫠. I tore into it determined to figure out what was wrong even if I could not fix it. Luckily I had some help and we found the problem, fixed it, and I was able to finish the harvest just as it started raining!! 🌧️
All this to tell you it was a hard season of harvest for the delays and breakdowns but through it I have seen Gods hand. I can see now I got to practice faith and patience, I have new and better friendships, I grew in fortitude and humility… and I would not have ended the season with the utmost gratitude for it all happening just the way it did to lead to the blessings of today. 🙂
So if things aren’t working out or you are waiting for something to happen, ask God for comfort in the process as the blessings of hardships are well worth it 😊
