Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The Pond is Full Again!!


After getting three and a half inches of rain/snow a few weeks ago and another inch and a half this weekend, our pond behind our house is finally full again for the first time in several years.

When we moved here in 1991 the pond was full and since it is a spring fed (as opposed to just run-off) it always stayed full within just a few inches. That was until the drought hit! In the past several years it has been several feet low at times. We had wondered if it would ever be full again, but God has sent the rains and it is full once again.

The pond provides for us in several ways. It has fish (Bream, Catfish, and Bass) in it so we have the enjoyment of fishing. And we are catch and eat not catch and release so it puts food on the table occasionally as well. We also have a rope swing in one of the large trees next to the edge of the pond which provides many hours of entertainment during the hot summer months. And sometimes in the quiet of the evening it's nice just to slide around in our canoe and enjoy being on the water.
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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).