Farm Happenings

As they have for many of our readers, the last two weeks have been characterized by snow. Kim figures we plowed the driveway more times in the last two weeks than we did all last winter. Certainly, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen this much snow this early.

Chris left for Seattle right after the last delivery (which Kim actually did) to visit his mom, stepdad, and sister. He took the train out of La Crosse, and returned on Wednesday to a winter wonderland after a restful twelve day break.

Kim, Lucas, and Jen began the end-of-the-year cleaning a reorganizing last week, getting into all of the odd corners and ignored stuff in the packing shed, and taking some organizational strides forward. Soon, we’ll turn inward and begin organizing and planning crops and finances for 2008, which seems, suddenly, just around the corner.

Meanwhile, Kim has been shuffling Oliver (11) and Isabel (6 tomorrow) around and organizing parents in preparation for the annual Burning Bright concert this Saturday in Decorah.