For Encouragement

September 2014 Greetings From Chris    " Immeasurably "  Wow!  The kids are back in school and the fairs are over.  The festivals are starting to wrap up and the crops are starting to show signs of maturing.  It has been a very enjoyable summer for our family.  It has also been a summer of much concern.  I can't begin to tell you the number of people I have encountered with major health concerns, difficult family crisis and numerous untimely deaths.  My heart so goes out to each of these people and their families.  I wish I could do something to...

October 3, 2014 Greetings From Chris    " Spotted "  Greetings, Well, some how I did not accomplish a September newsletter, but at least we have an October one! We started harvest this week. It has been a very interesting season. We had lots of water early, then dry in the middle and lots of water late. As I combine through the fields and observe the yield monitor it is amazing to see the variations. There are some really good spots and some not so good spots. Melissa started on canning peaches and making applesauce this week. It is hard work and messy....

December 2013 Greetings From Chris    "A Sign..." We decided to create some Christmas memories with our children in Indianapolis last weekend. We first went to the Children's museum. The biggest attraction during the month of December is the two-story Yule slide. The kids really enjoyed that. We went in the winter wonderland and watched an indoor snowball fight. We always finish up our visits there riding on the carousel. The whole museum was decorated so pretty for Christmas and we had a great time, but I left with a deep heart of sorrow. When we got into the car I told...

January 2014 Greetings From Chris   "Baby Steps" I hope and pray that each of you survived the chilly temps and blizzard like conditions earlier this month. We had a very unique thing happen to us. We received a call from our neighbor on Sunday afternoon that there were blinking lights down on the road. The snow was really coming down and the wind was blowing very strong. On the road there were around a dozen vehicles completely stopped. As we watched people trying to dig and running from car to car I felt that nudge on the heart to help....

March 2014 Greetings From Chris     " Patchin' "  Greetings, I was driving down the road the other morning, a very cold morning and I came upon an INDOT crew patching the potholes. As I approached them I noticed some spots that had been done, but I still noticed a lot of holes that were not patched. My best observation is that they were trying to patch the deep and potentially detrimental holes. They did a great job in such cold weather of making the patches smooth, but it had to be so discouraging. There was very easily 3x as many...