Thursday, December 11, 2008

Thundering Falls

We have gotten several (our rain gauge froze so I don't know exactly how many) inches of rain today and are proud of each and every drop. We are in the midst of a severe drought here in the Southeastern United States so the rain is very welcome. Our pond has been extremely low and it came up visibly today though not near full. On down the creek below the dam is a small waterfall that we call Thundering Falls. When I say a small waterfall I mean a small waterfall like less than two feet! It got it's grandeous name when the kids were real little and there was this show on TV about dinosaurs and they lived near a huge waterfall they called Thundering Falls so when we discovered our small waterfall it was called Thundering Falls and has been ever since. It's so funny when people come over for the first time and we say, not even thinking about it now because we have just always called it that, "let's go show them Thundering Falls!" I am quite sure people think we have fliped our lid when they see this two foot trickle that we call "Thundering Falls" :-)
Posted by Matthew at 9:59 PM

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Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).