This Week at Ramsey Farms

For the week of Monday, August 4 - Sunday, August 10, 2014 ~ 

Wild muscadines grow all over our riverbank!

This week has been busy with registering for school, school open houses, and the first day of school was Friday! My son went to his first day of full-day pre-k and my daughter began high school. They both rode the school bus to and from school! The school is about 13 miles from our house so I am very thankful for the buses. The kids ride the same bus and their driver is a very kind woman who lives right down the road from us. In fact, the bus driver's husband once owned our piece of land! (Small town!)

I made a batch of chocolate drop cookies for the kids when they got home from their first day of school. It must have been a hard day, my daughter reported that our little boy fell asleep on her four times on the bus ride home. Bless his little heart! :)

My daughter baked bread Tuesday and we delivered a small loaf to our only real, actual next-door neighbors. They weren't home at that time, so we left the bread and a note on their front porch. The next day about noon, two older women rode up our 925-foot dirt road to the house in their John Deere utility vehicle to introduce themselves. We swapped phone numbers and promises of calling if either of us needs anything. Friday afternoon, Ms. Peavey saw me at the end of my driveway (waiting for the school bus) and hollered my name. I ran over to see her - she wanted to give me a farm bulletin and some tomato pie, and fresh basil and fresh parsley, and another magazine! Such sociable ladies and kind-hearted too. I know they must have some awesome stories and wisdom and experience to share, so I am so happy to have them as my closest neighbors.

Saturday morning, Ms. Sue called and spoke to Chris for a few minutes. The next thing I knew, Chris was heading next door then Sue and Chris showed up at our house on tractors and Z-mowers and spent the next four or five hours mowing our front and back fields!

Chief Farmhand & Head Mower, Chris

I sent over a mess of muscadines, homemade raspberry jam, and some chocolate cookies - but that just isn't quite enough to thank her for all that hard, sweaty work she did! What wonderful, wonderful people! How do you repay someone like that?

Another neighbor (from a half mile away), Ms. Patty dropped in to visit us Saturday afternoon while Sue and Chris were mowing. Ms. Patty brought us still warm from the oven tea cookies that were so delicious (they did not last long). She is a hoot and loves to chat! I am looking forward to more visiting with Ms. Patty! On our way to church Sunday, we dropped off a loaf of homemade farm bread to her.

We are so blessed to have some new, wonderful neighbors. We had fantastic neighbors in North Carolina and now I am seeing that we've picked another good spot to live near some terrific folks!

Friday afternoon Chief Farmhand, Chris and I selected a spot for our inaugural garden here at Ramsey Farms, Georgia. He tilled two three-foot wide rows - one is 26' long and the other is 21' in length - by hand with his shovel.

Thank you, God for bringing us to this place of beauty and genuinely nice, good-hearted people. I know this is all part of His plan for us and the people we happen upon are a part of that plan. I don't believe in coincidences or luck, I think all things happen for a bigger, great reason. I'm looking forward to the week ahead to see God at work in our lives here.

Life isn't something to wait for or look forward to, Life is happening right here, right now! Live it loud! Happy dreamin'! ~Ramsey

Egret or "Cow Bird" in our front field