The Farm

So, I did it! I started a blog!  I am finally ready to reveal it to all interested eyes on the world wide web ;0 As Chad and I are about to embark on a new adventure, I decided blogging would be a fun way to document our travels and discoveries.

I am down to seven more days at my job.  On July 21^st, I will turn in my badge and have all of my VA rights erased.  I hope they don’t have to actually escort me out of the building; that would be weird…

One of my top priorities before leaving is to visit the town of Cushing, MN, where the population density is 8.1 people per square mile.  This is where my grandparents reside and where they have been farming for the past 20 or so years.  I have so many wonderful memories on the farm. 

I got to spend whole weeks there in the summer when I was a little girl.  It was just me and my grandma and grandpa.   My grandma would make me oatmeal every morning with a half of a grapefruit (with each little wedge cut around for my eating ease!) I would wake up bright and early with them on Wednesday and Saturday mornings to go to market street to sell their beautiful and delicious flowers and veggies.  I am pretty sure they always had the best selection on the whole street.  Their green thumbs are due to both nature and nurture from their parents and grandparents back in the Czech Republic (or “the old country” as they like to call it).

I don’t make it up there nearly as often as I used to, which makes me a little sad, but is part of growing up.  I am going for a visit on Friday and can’t wait to see the fields in full bloom.  The last two times I visited everything was still in the green house.

My Beautiful Grandma Betty Jane

And Grandpa Ray, quite a strapping gent :)

The greenhouse mid-April

The greenhouse at the end of May

At the farm, things are still done the old fashion way :)

This will forever be one of my happy places.   Everything seems so much simpler at the farm.  I love it all… the scenery, the company, the food.  I think my grandma is one of the only seventy-something farmers I know who cooks her granddaughter mock-chicken hot dish!  I am truly a lucky girl J