Fall

I just commented on my Facebook page about how the wind today had a "bite" to it. I spent the morning at the feed yard fixing corrals and getting ready to bring cattle in. If the sun would have gone behind the clouds I would have been looking for a coat. The wind, or maybe you could call it a breeze, no it was a wind was cool and felt very much like fall. I brought back memories of working on the farm during the fall. This was the time of year that we put up the corn silage, my mind drifted back to those days, days much like today with a cool wind blowing and the hard work required to get everything done. Silage, hay, cattle to round up and bring in, yes the fall and the spring were always busy times on the farm. I have reflected upon those times a lot this last week, not sure why, I guess working on the farm as the weather changes reminds me of those times.
On a side note, I don't like the wind, it is one weather condition that I could do without. However, today's cool fall wind was a welcome change from the Satan's breath straight from Hell wind that we normally get around here. We seem to have had more than our fair share of wind this past summer. Either I can't remember the wind blowing so much, or the wind has blown a lot more than usual.

Waiting for the YM to colect pennies-by-the-inch donations. Thought I would try making an entry on my blog. Can't believe Lydia is in YW. 3 out of 5, too weird.

Interesting time

It is an interesting time in my life. I have been unemployed since June 19th, although dad has been keeping me busy on the farm. It has been an interesting time, the jobs that I have interviewed for I am over qualified for and pay too little to support my family. I have recently started looking for work throughout the country. My wife has started getting the same feeling that she got before we moved in the past. She usually gets it 3 or 4 months before I do. I have mixed feelings about it all. It will be most difficult for the kids, Jacob is in high school, Rachel and Lydia are on competitive soccer teams, Jed and Sye both like their teachers this year. Barb and I are willing to go whereever, but, we both know that any move will be difficult. I suppose that this is one of the ways that the Lord tries us, to see if we will follow his will instead of doing what we want or what is easier.

It's been a while

Yes it has been a while since I have posted to my blog. I lost my job in June and have been unemployed since. Dad has been keeping me busy on the farm, but I don't have constant access to my computer like I did before, so, I have fewer opportunities to write on a blog, or check email and stuff like that. The kids are back in school and seem to be liking it so far. Right now, I have a barbed wire fence waiting for me at the farm.

Busy Busy Busy

I have been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I am coaching Lydia's soccer team, Jacob just finished playing Rugby, and Jed and Sye are playing baseball. I am still in the YM presidency, I have started a small business, still working a full time job that has me running all over the place, still working for Robert on the side, and now it is getting into the summer and I have been farming. Actually, the farming has been more fixing and trying to find newer equipment than anything. It is good to be busy!
I had a couple of neat experiences with promptings of the Spirit last week. One of them had to do with dad's baler of all things. I was repairing the baler and had a small bolt that was broken. It is a special bolt and the Deere place was closed. I drilled the broken piece out and was just going to head to town to try and find a bolt when I got the impression to look in the junk drawer in my tool box. I almost dismissed the idea, but decided a quick look wouldn't hurt. I opened the drawer and brushed the stuff aside and right there was one of the tiny little bolts that I needed. It was like finding the needle in the hay stack. These promptings come all the time, what I realized was that a lot of the time we don't listen. There has been many times that I just brush the ideas off as crazy. My experiences this last week made me realize that I need to take a minute and listen more often, I get ideas like this all the time. The trick is to act upon them when they come.
Well, it is time to go to soccer practice, so I better run!

Wow

Wow, it has been a while. There is a lot going on right now, so I haven't taken a lot of time to post to my blog. I am coaching Lydia's soccer team, Jed and Sye are starting baseball, Jacob is playing Rugby, I am starting a new business, it just goes on and on. Right now it is way past my bedtime and my K-9 program is going to kick me off of the Internet so this is going to be short. All I can say is that we are very busy at the Frei home right now.

Interesting

I have had two interesting things happen in the last week. Both of a spiritual nature, as I was driving to Price today I thought about them and thought I should write them down.
The first happened last week. I have been trying to sell a Jetco trencher for a guy for over a year now. I have finally reached a point where I left a message at the first of February that he needed to move it from my yard. Shortly after that I got an opportunity to sell it, in the mean time, he made arrangements to sell it to a friend for scrap to get it out of my yard. His friend and the guy that I was trying to sell the trencher to were to come look at it on the same day, his friend arriving first and having the chance to override my deal. When they got there, they looked at the machine and then came and talked to me. They did not know that I had a deal as well, and at first didn't seem to care because they were going to get the machine very cheap. They left for a little while and came and talked to me again telling me that they told the owner to sell the machine to me and that they would take it if my deal fell through. After they told me this one of them asked me if I was LDS. I said that I was, curious to know why he asked. He said that he had seen the Book of Mormon that I keep on my desk and felt that if I was LDS that I was being honest with them and not just feeding them a line. Come to find out, when they first got there they were not happy with me because the owner of the machine had raised the price on them because I had told him that I had a deal on the machine. The Book of Mormon on my desk had caused them to decide to give me the opportunity to make my sell instead of taking it from me.
The other experience happened this morning, and is related to prayer. I was working on dad's swather trying to fix it so that I could finish cutting hay before I left for Price. After checking the part that I had made, I found that I needed to make a hole bigger so that it would work. I had driven home and got a carbide de-burring tool from my tool box at home and was using it in my cordless drill when the de-burring tool fell out under the machine. I could not find the tool and was frantic because I was running out of time and didn't have time to go find something else that would work. After searching the area several times I stopped while hunched under the machine and prayed that I would be able to find the tool. After my prayer I again began to search frantically but soon felt that I should stop and sit still for a moment. After sitting still for less than a minute I got the impression to go to the cut hay that I had scooped out of the area where the tool fell and search it carefully. As I did this, sure enough, the tool had been scooped away with the cut hay. It was wrapped into the material in such a way that I did not feel it, or even though it is a shinny tool, see it. Even as I found the tool I realized that had I not stopped for a few seconds and calmed down even a little bit, I doubt that I would have found the tool when I did.
Then Lord answers prayers, even when they are seemingly insignificant to the eternal scheme of things.