Progress, harvest and blessings.

How's that for a weekly summary? The concrete crew showed up last week and got the foundation completed on our house. What a blessing they were to work with. I'd give Silver Construction a great recommendation anytime. They are AWESOME!! The framers are here now and estimate they'll be done in a week to a week and a half. I started this process trying to keep track of every phone call and every in person I had in my calendar. Let's just say that level of organization had to go away or my calendar wouldn't have a single empty spot left by now. Bids from different companies that don't quite match up, reminder calls of where we are and who needs to be where and when, it all just boggles my mind. The good news is we're gonna have a new home.

Harvest and blessings need to go together. While most farmers are thinking of crop harvest this year, we think of harvest as selling show calves. You see, last summer we bred cows with the hope of a good calf crop. This spring those calves were born. We have prayed over them, watched over them and cared for them since conception. Some of them we've become rather attached to, others we won't mind seeing leave. But harvest time has come. We called our former customers and people who wanted to become customers and told them this was the weekend. God opened His floodgates of blessings. Saturday alone, we sold 8 calves. Mike and I were certainly exhausted by the end of the day but we visited with some wonderful people and entered the lives of some young people through the cattle. You see, we'll continue to provide help, support and advice to them all the way through next summer. We really feel customer service is a high priority. We have seen what a difference can be made in the lives of youth when they have an animal to care for. I encourage everyone I know to have something living for their child to be responsible for. It amazes me what a difference it makes in attitudes of kids and it sure does help them realize they really don't need to become parents any too soon. Taking care of another living thing is hard work. I'd rather our guys know that from raising cattle than raising kids at this point of their lives. So, God definately blessed us with some neat families to work with, a harvest of quality calves and just a little jingle in our pockets so that we might find a way to bless others.