Recent Events with the Greenfields

Okay, the kids have been riding me about getting this thing back on track. I’ll see about that, but thought I’d throw a post together of recent events.

Last week we were out in Grand Rapids, MI visiting family. It was a good week, even though it rained 3 out of 5 days. Meagan has blogged about it a bit, so check out her blog.

Thursday we went to see my nephew’s baseball game, and Hannah broke her wrist while goofing around with her brothers and cousins. She’ll get her cast on this afternoon. Hannah now has the distinction of being the first of my children to break a bone. We thought for sure it was going to be Josiah! Congratulations, Hannah!

We left Saturday morning, and didn’t get 20 minutes down the highway  when the front right tire decided to call it quits. As you can see, the tread split open but the tire didn’t lose air pressure. That enabled us to limp to a service station, which was good as there was no spare tire in the van that we were borrowing!

Ashley’s been getting her hours in for her driver’s license. She’s doing a good job! I took the picture of Josiah a couple of months ago–not a good situation, the preacher’s kid trying to bust open the offering box! :-p Last but not least is a recent heading from our weekly newspaper that got quite a cherchuckle from us all! A big “oops” for sure on the editors’ part!

Anyone Out There???

Actually you’re probably wondering if anyone is here!!!

I’ll offer no excuses–I’ve failed to keep ya’ll updated of life on the farm. Lord willing I’ll put up a SINGLE post that will bring you up to date on everything that’s happened since March 12!

For now, I’m going to redirect you to my blog where I posted a survey of current church activity. Please check out our efforts and be praying!

Thanks!

****UPDATE****

I forgot to mention that two of the farm hands have entered the blogging field–

Andy’s blog

Meagan’s blog

I’m sure they would enjoy your visits and comments!

Its Friday!

We really look forward to Fridays! Just a warning to our suburban and city friends and family–this post might make you roll your eyes a bit!

School is normally finished around 2:00-2:30. By that time the crew is ready to go! Where?

Well, you need to understand that there’s not much as far as shopping venues go here in Orwell. There’s the Golden Dawn grocery store, Family Dollar, Dollar General, a Circle K convenience store, and the Shell gas station. Oh yeah, I forgot the Drug Store as well.

Thus, on Fridays the crew loads up to go to Middlefield, a good 15-20 minute drive southwest of Orwell, and incidentally home of the fourth largest Amish population in the USA. First stop, the library:

Orwell has its own library, but it didn’t take long for the farmhands to pretty much exhaust its riches. So they enjoy spending a good hour at the Middlefield library, literally loading up on piles of books.

Next stop is grocery shopping at the Middlefield Sav-A-Lot and Wal-Mart. While Trish procures the needed food for the hard-working farmhands, they enjoy shopping and looking about.

The Middlefield Wal-Mart definitely accommodates their Amish customers!

Remember, I told you your eyes might roll a bit! When the highlight of your week is going to the library and Wal-Mart, you know you live out in the country!

If you haven’t rolled your eyes yet, maybe this newspaper clipping I came across will do the trick. It explains how some feel about going to Wal-Mart–

Isn’t that a hoot? I’m just imagining Alyson Peterson’s response right now [heh heh]

Grandma Scott

Last weekend was a busy one for us–we’ve been looking forward to the wedding of one of Trisha’s sisters, Laura, on Saturday night. The day before we left, the Lord took my Grandma Scott home, so Saturday morning we had Grandma’s funeral, and then Laura’s wedding in the evening. Talk about a full day! We’re thankful Grandma knew the Lord and is with Him now.

During the funeral my Aunt Sue and I gave testimonies; I’ll post those in the near future. The obit at left is difficult to read; if interested, it’s online here.