Burns Best Farm

Catching Up to Start Running Again

This is the first quiet afternoon I've had in weeks.  A fellow homeschool mom has taken the two older boys for an afternoon of swimming with her family, and the toddler son is sleeping soundly in his crib.  The silence around here is just so sweet!  I love having a house full of boys, but my boys are not the silent type.  Noise is a constant companion here.  I will start to miss them in another 30 minutes, but this moment is appreciated!

The laundry machines are humming along, trying to catch up from our dirty, dusty stint up at the farm.  For those of you new to my farm story, my family splits time between the suburbs of northwest Atlanta and our little farm in the northwest corner of Georgia, very close to Chattanooga, TN.  90 miles separate us from the large garden and the blueberry bushes that got us into this agricultural reality show.  We are in town now, enjoying friends and swimming pools and computer access.  All of those little luxuries are less frequent at the farm (except the friends part....we have friends there from church, and family, too.) 

But when the blog is quiet, it means I'm at the farm, picking beans, trellising tomatoes, whacking at the weeds, and lately, praying for rain.  If the Lord reminds you of us after reading this post, please ask Him to send us three days of slow, sweet rain.  We need it so.

I have finished another Joel Salatin book and I am making notes on what I learned most from it.  I hope to post another book review later this week.  I plan to get a library card in the farm county this week so I will have access to high speed internet and can stay more in touch with this little community of like-minded folks I so enjoy here.

Stay cool, drink some sweet tea, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.