This month marked the six month mark of losing Sara. This month also had Amy's birthday, my hubby's birthday, and we are still harvesting corn. Last week I was struggling a lot with Sara's passing. This was the first birthday of Amy's that it was just her and I. I took her out to lunch and bought her a sweet present from one of our favorite stores. It was a fun way to celebrate, just different since it was only the two of us.
God knew I was struggling, of course and last Thursday I started to remember something and it was all due to the storms that blew through that morning. Last morning the first thunderstorm rolled through about 5:30 am. It was a nasty storm. Extremely close lightening, lots of thunder, and rain coming down so hard it sounded like hail. I was milking at that time and needless to say my cows went slightly crazy. This storm cleared out around 6:30 and we had a break until about 8am, then the second storm rolled through. Luckily I was done milking before the second one came through so I just had to clean. It was at this point that I realized that everything bad passes. And just like making it through the storms Thursday morning I'll make it through the rough patch and I'll be okay. Sara would want it that way.
On to the positive side of things though. We had sixteen babies during the month of August. It was basically a constant revolving door of pulling calves and bringing fresh cows into the barn. Started to feel like a maternity ward, but we have lots of new babies now! And lots of fresh milk going into our tank. We had our first cold spell a couple weeks ago, but then it warmed back up. It is officially fall, but I'm not ready for the cold. I like where we're sitting right now temperature wise and so do my milk cows.
Our corn harvest is going much better than any of us thought it would. It's been a few years since we've had a decent corn crop so this year it's a very nice surprise. We even had to open up a few bins that haven't been used in awhile. And where I live I am able to see Dad and Frank run our corn in for it to be weighed and then run it back out to put in the bins for the milk cows. All that rain in June has paid off on our corn crop.
It's been a busy end of the summer, but thankfully Aadrian has decided to transfer to a closer college. Since she's transferring she is taking the current semester off and it's been very nice to have an extra set of hands out at the farm after it just being me for most of the summer.
The hardest part about losing Sara has been understanding why and accepting it. But like the storms, this too shall pass. And I know Sara is always looking down on us and smiling.
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