Fair-View Farm Blog

Hello! Emily here, with a few thoughts that I jotted down a couple Sundays ago. In the midst of the busyness that Christmas tends to bring I'd encourage you to stop, to breath and to look for small things for which to be thankful.  Here in Wisconsin, we've entered the winter season and the snow has been quickly adding up. It was Sunday morning and I'd been busy practicing music for the morning services,  making breakfast, and so forth, but in the midst of it all I realized what I had missed when I was outside doing chores earlier- it was a pretty morning! During the night, frost had settled on any little thing it could, and it outlined all the little twigs on the trees transforming the whole woods into a white expanse. Have you ever closely observed a frosty branch or twig? The detail is amazing, and reminds me of the God who creates beauty and then shares it with us!! A couple nights before I stood outside as it was snowing, it was dark everywhere except...

November came in with snow  The perfect type of snow for..... SNOWBALL FIGHTS! It was kind of pretty but I'm glad it left towards the end of the month.  Deer season came and brought with it a good showing of blaze orange on my brothers-but as of now, nothing has been shot. (Except a raccoon, but that was totally unrelated to deer hunting)  I (Emily) was in a wedding for a good friend of mine. Honestly, I had no idea that weddings could be so much fun! I had a great time! :) It was an honor to be part of this special day when two Christians committed themselves to each other before the Lord.  Thanksgiving: We have so much to be thankful for! Mom and us girls had quite a bit of time together as we prepped food on Wednesday and Thursday.   We hosted dinner at our house for some of Mom's family and it was nice to spend some time with extended family members, who we don't get to see very often....

How is it already the last week of September?? The past couple days have been some of the hotter days of the year. We've been trying to make hay- but it's a little hard to cut hay when the diskbine is in pieces: And now for some pictures I took just for fun this evening. The boys were practicing setting their traps in the sandbox Can you tell where the trap is hidden?  Sibling snapshots- nothin' fancy here.... just living & loving life!    This was a gift to the boys from our great-uncle who can no longer drive it.... It's been much appreciated already in the couple weeks that it's been here.  The onion crop:  This is a haywagon that they are spread out on to dry down... Quite a crop this year!  Leaves are turning colors here and we've been dealing with apples. The trees were loaded this year and there is no keeping up with the ones that fall: Juice, sauce, apple butter, drying th...

These snapshots from around the farm were taken by Laura- hope you enjoy them. 😊 

I'm sorry that things have been quiet here on the blog... Somehow summer has flown by so fast, and the pictures I took and intended to post in June were still on the SD card in the camera. So this rainy, damp Saturday seemed like a good time to get them loaded on the computer and share a few with you. Summer at the farm means lots of hay making, gardening, and farm chores. Lots of work, but we've also done a few fun things as well. At our July Music Night we enjoyed having special guests play for us. They did a great job and gave us a break as well.  Then, we took off the first weekend in Aug to go to the Lake Itasca Family Music Festival. We are grateful for our wonderful chore help that allowed us to go. It was such a fun weekend: lots of great music, and a good trip there and back. (It's about the best three days of the year!)  We also played music for a couple church events over the summer. We had our last calf of the year today, that means we are done with new baby...