It is Summer and life take on a more anxious pattern in the Summer, don’t you think? Summer, well, more accurately, warm weather brings with it tornado season and has us nervously standing in the doorway watching the clouds churning and the sky change colors. Some years warm weather brings rain….so much rain we begin to wonder if it will stop long enough get the crops in the ground. Other years we are watching rivers rise flooding the fields and homes… forcing folks to abruptly change the course of their lives . Some years it is drought…no rain…..weeks without rain…the ground turns cracks and turns to dust.
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This year seems we have had it all….Killer tornados, record flooding and drought….
I watched my farmer friend Russell as the days without rain wore on and on….turning into weeks of no rain….acres and acres of planted fields desperate for rain….it can’t be easy watching crops suffer….his face, not unlike the parched ground seemed to crack a bit ….
But Russell is my new favorite hero….every year Russell plants a field of sweet corn and shares the corn with so many folks around Edwards and beyond…. We look forward to corn picking time at Cannada Farms….Asking , “When will the corn be ready?”
The fields of corn and soy beans, the cash crops Russell couldn’t do anything about them….but that field of sweet corn, he would be giving away to friends, family and neighbors…They hauled water from a pond to save the sweet corn….picked it, brought a pickup load to Church, sacked it and gave it away….I feel sure Russell and Scott have been delivering corn all over the county….and letting friends and neighbors pick what they wanted.
The lesson learned from Russell…Is you can’t help but worry……but give up, no. Russell did what he could do…..one thing he could do was tend to that patch of sweet corn….and by doing so brought much pleasure to so many.
Of course I think we all know that when life is a bit rocky we should have faith and do what we can do…but the lesson sinks deeper when we see someone actually doing it.
I am grateful the life lesson reminder… when times appear bleak and unpredictable ….“Do What You can Do”…. and I am also grateful for the corn.
Rain has since fallen on the fields around the county…I don’t know if it was enough…but Russell’s smile was much broader Sunday.
Love to all call if you need me
This year seems we have had it all….Killer tornados, record flooding and drought….
I watched my farmer friend Russell as the days without rain wore on and on….turning into weeks of no rain….acres and acres of planted fields desperate for rain….it can’t be easy watching crops suffer….his face, not unlike the parched ground seemed to crack a bit ….
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| Russell and his dog Lee |
But Russell is my new favorite hero….every year Russell plants a field of sweet corn and shares the corn with so many folks around Edwards and beyond…. We look forward to corn picking time at Cannada Farms….Asking , “When will the corn be ready?”
The fields of corn and soy beans, the cash crops Russell couldn’t do anything about them….but that field of sweet corn, he would be giving away to friends, family and neighbors…They hauled water from a pond to save the sweet corn….picked it, brought a pickup load to Church, sacked it and gave it away….I feel sure Russell and Scott have been delivering corn all over the county….and letting friends and neighbors pick what they wanted.
The lesson learned from Russell…Is you can’t help but worry……but give up, no. Russell did what he could do…..one thing he could do was tend to that patch of sweet corn….and by doing so brought much pleasure to so many.
Of course I think we all know that when life is a bit rocky we should have faith and do what we can do…but the lesson sinks deeper when we see someone actually doing it.
I am grateful the life lesson reminder… when times appear bleak and unpredictable ….“Do What You can Do”…. and I am also grateful for the corn.
Rain has since fallen on the fields around the county…I don’t know if it was enough…but Russell’s smile was much broader Sunday.
Love to all call if you need me
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