Sunday Morning Devotionals

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Allan in NE

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Yep,

This is pretty much my religion. :>)

Allan

 

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Ron Anderson

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• Jun 22, 2014

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I've always been curious about baling out west. Is it very often that you bale up rattle snakes in the bale when you are baling?

 

T in NE

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Cambridge, Nebraska

• Jun 22, 2014

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I made the mistake of telling grandma the best friends I ever had I met at the bar. Now I get religious pamphlets in the mail every other week.

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Sure all the time. You see 'em flipped in the air by the rakes too.

Biggest problem is the holes dug by the coyotes to nest during the winter. Huge holes and they'll snap an axle if ya hit 'em just right. :>(

Allan

 

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Greg K

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Is that the voice of experience talking about coyote dens?

 

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Ron Anderson

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• Jun 22, 2014

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We get badgers that dig holes like that around here and can cause damage like you mentioned. I am a person who can't stand snakes. Once in a while we would get garter snakes in bales but can't imagine stacking small bales and having the business end of a rattler staring at me as I grab the bale. Probably need a extra pair of pants along.

 

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Ron Anderson

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Forgot to ask but do you have prairie dogs there too? Been looking for a place to shoot prairie dogs.

 

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jennifer408

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• Jun 22, 2014

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amen, Allan in NE.

 

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sd pete

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Lookin good!

 

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gtractorfan

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Years ago when I was stacking bales on the wagon behind the baler the head and about foot long section of a snake slithered off the front of the wagon. Another time we were baling near a ditch in wheat stubble, saw 2 racer type snakes crawling with their heads above the stubble (in Indiana).

 

showcrop

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• Jun 22, 2014

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I went out and mowed hay as soon as I got home from church. Please don't take this as being self righteous but exactly what is your religion? Tractors? yes, I like tractors too. Hay? yes, I place very high importance on making good hay, I have for 28 years. Or is it just plain working hard and gittin' er done? And then God owes you?

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Allan,
Much as I love most everything about farming, there is an emptiness in each of us that nothing earthly can fill. Our Creator longs to have a relationship with us.

Glenn F.

 

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LarryH

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• Jun 22, 2014

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we take sundays off as to GODS plan to thank him for helpng us have a crop---seema to have always worked

 

flembo

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• Jun 22, 2014

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I have seen raccoons on the bales going after snakes that were baled up and couldn't get out.

 

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BarryfromIA

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Looks like another newer tractor for the baler.

 

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Dick2

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• Jun 22, 2014

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I could stand doing that on a Sunday morning. What I can't stand is the perfume in church. Miss going to church, but I really don't have a choice.

 

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dkr

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• Jun 22, 2014

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When I was a young man in OK, I hauled many bales of alfalfa. There were many times I would turn a bale over to pick it up and see a snake baled up in the hay staring up at me. That always did put a little brown spot in my britches. I hate snakes.

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Yep,

That's why man invented religion. I, on the other hand, have no such fear of the dark.

Allan

 

showcrop

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• Jun 22, 2014

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(quoted from post at 16:36:02 06/22/14) Yep,

That's why man invented religion. I, on the other hand, have no such fear of the dark.

Allan

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For those who believe there is no darkness to fear.

 

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David G

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• Jun 22, 2014

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I went to church this morning, really enjoyed it.

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jun 22, 2014

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Exactly!

Good way to put it.

Allan

 

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ShadetreeRet

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• Jun 22, 2014

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I know what they say about Sunday being the Lord's day, but as they say too, ya gotta make hay while the sun shines. Personally, I feel closer to the Man Upstairs while working in a field, as I do sitting inside a building, no matter which day of the week it may be.

 

T in NE

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Location

Cambridge, Nebraska

• Jun 23, 2014

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Best treatment I've found for that is a tractor and a hay rake.

 

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Bret4207

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• Jun 23, 2014

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There are few things you can diss with impunity these days, but a few of them are formal Judeo-Christian religions, straight white rural men, old fashioned values and honest work. Somehow this thread managed to cover them all. Sad.

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Jun 23, 2014

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I'm in western Washington, and all we have are garter snakes. When I was a kid, I was walking home from the bus and came upon a little snake in the road- big head for the size of it, head wider in the back than the front, tan with a different pattern on its skin. Seemed feisty, coiled right up when I got close. Went on home and told dad, he said I'll bet its a baby rattler, and it hitched a ride on a load of eastern Washington alfalfa we got today. We went back to find it, but it was gone.

As far as the religious part of all of this, I guess I never really kept the Sabbath, even when I was a regular church-goer. Get home from church, change clothes and go do something on the farm. Simply didn't have the luxury of an extra day to waste, as I always worked full time in town.