Turning Point, Delivery Near You?
With a trip to the processor on Monday, we got 40 cows in the barn to sort on Sunday after church. Then sorted out the biggest 8 of about 30 hogs to load on the trailer to be ready to roll out Monday morning. Our beef inventory is low, and our pork inventory is next to out. We’ll be restocked soon. Thanks for your patience.
Monday, while I was on the road hauling animals, after a condensed school morning with the kids, Amy spent the rest of her day devoted to her monthly “office day.” A significant portion of almost everyday is tied to office work of some sort, but once a month she focuses on bookkeeping, renewals, sales taxes, and so on.
While our freezers are low on beef and pork, they continue to be filled with pasture raised ORVF chicken. With a small crew, we harvested a small batch of 128 on Wednesday, cutting up 100 of them for parts. Followed by a barnyard whiffle ball game. Only a couple weeks of chicken season left. Down to 15 shelters to move daily.
Yesterday Amy made the quarterly trip to Farmville to deliver ORVF meats to several families in that area. We’ve had several inquiries lately about shipping our meats. We don’t offer shipping, but we are open to the possibility of adding new monthly or quarterly delivery locations to your neighborhood if there is enough interest in your area to justify us making the trip. Give or take 10 committed families.
Our fall calving cows should start dropping baby calves anytime. Our egg laying hens are probably a month out from laying. It’s about time to start burning wood. And cutting wood.
I finished listening to Time for a Turning Point by Charlie Kirk with Brent Hamachek.
“Liberty is best preserved at the closest local level. To the extent that we continue to move away from local control to federal control, we will continue to lose liberty. Big government doesn’t just suck, it makes dependent slaves out of all of us.”
Again, I know it’s probably not wise to mix farming and politics, but I don’t care. Actually, I do care. That’s why I mix them. A brief history lesson of the Soviet Union shows them farming some of the most fertile land in the world but starving to death because of bad government and bad policies.
Personally, I’m a Christian conservative capitalist. Politically, I align more libertarian. I don’t want to be forced by law to conform to the views and beliefs of others. And I don’t want to use law to force others to conform to my views and beliefs. For example, our family believes it is good to go to church. But that doesn’t mean I want to legislate policies forcing everyone to go to church. Freedom doesn’t put what we believe is good into law for all. Freedom allows us to choose and voluntarily live by what we believe to be good, not because it’s law but because it’s good.
Freedom empowers the people. The more powerful the government, the less individual freedom. My desire for a small federal government leaves me increasingly frustrated with out two main political parties. One side seems to be in favor of a big federal government, while the other side is in favor of an even bigger federal government. To be honest, I wasn’t a huge fan of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. I would’ve preferred a much smaller beautiful bill. I am in favor of the tax cuts, given how much we are already overtaxed, but not the continuation of reckless spending. The more money the government throws into the economy, the less it’s worth. It’s not so much the value of everything going up; it’s the value of the dollar going down. And it will only continue to do so as our national debt increases.
Think about getting a credit card. Spending that money is fun. When the money runs out and we have to pay it back, not so fun. Right now, neither side wants to stop spending on the credit card and start paying it back. We’ll just keep borrowing and spending money which seems to be only a continuation of the fun. Until it’s not. Until those dollars aren’t worth anything. That’s the direction we’re going if uncorrected.
“Another term that in and of itself has corrupted original intent is that of states rights. The states don’t have rights under the Constitution, they have powers.”
Before the Revolutionary War, the colonies were independently governed. What united the colonies, leading to the establishment of the United States? National defense. That’s it. That’s the sole purpose of the federal government. Everything else can be done more effectively and efficiently by the states, local governments, and the private sector.
“What is forgotten in those arguments made against the defense department is that defending the country is the only mandatory function given to the federal government in the Constitution.”
Kirk references late Catholic priest Father Andrew Greeley in saying, “Those who wanted to be part of a perfect church should seek it out. If they found it, they should immediately join it, but they should know that the moment they joined it, that it would cease to be perfect. That sentiment should be kept in mind when viewing the founding and the subsequent growth and development of the United States. Our country was doomed to miss perfection the moment Constitution was ratified and men began to uphold it.”
“The Constitution was not written for the times. It was written to stand the test of times.”
Have a good week.
Will