Daddy's Tractor
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Hi! I'm Kelly, a busy farm wife and homeschool mom. On this farm we don't have time for complicated, so these are my straight-forward, real-life adventures on a farm that grows food for your family. Climb on up and take a ride in the tractor to learn what we do everyday.
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
I recently found myself making small talk with the guy mixing my paint color at Lowe’s. We talked about the weather, which led to talking about our farm, which led to him asking if we grow our own food. Well, we feed the world, but no, we don’t grow everything our family eats. He seemed surprised to ..read more
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
Maybe you’ve seen this picture floating around social media recently. It annoys me greatly. Usually I’d let my friends in the livestock world handle this issue, since we don’t raise animals commercially, but you wouldn’t believe how cruel people who argue for humane treatment of animals are being to actual people, so I’m throwing my ..read more
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
When I say I got out of Washington DC just in time this weekend, it’s not an exaggeration. We left out hotel at 3:15 AM to stand in line at Reagan National for much too long of a time with no caffeine, only to sit on the runway in Nashville when our connecting flight left ..read more
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
I see these great pictures of farmhouse decor mudrooms on Pinterest and I’m always just so amazed. Where is the MUD?! Our little place doesn’t have much space for a mudroom, or even lockers, so our back hallway is always crowded with coats, jackets, mittens, coveralls, insulated chore boots, thawing water buckets, egg baskets and ..read more
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
I heard the crash first thing this morning. It was Anna, trying to remove the blanket from her birds’ cage which she received as a birthday present last month. The whole cage tipped over. Water. Seeds. Droppings. But I’ll take it. Because running the vacuum cleaner over the basement rug and refilling a tiny container ..read more
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
Christmas traditions are important, and one of ours is the annual Missouri Farm Bureau meeting the first weekend in December. It’s held at a resort on the Lake of the Ozarks, with the conference held in the main lodge. The first several years we tried to get rooms in the main hotel or in one ..read more
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
We celebrated Thanksgiving with my family this weekend when my sister could come from Iowa. We had it all. Family. Fun. And food. Which my Dad reminded us, isn’t always the case. (Toddlers get their own table!) A few years ago my parents invited some church members from Africa to stay at their home while ..read more
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
There is so much more to farming than you’d ever think. I’ve been here for eleven years and I’m still amazed. Last week I had a great time visiting a neighbor’s farm to see how they calibrate their combine monitor for accurate harvest data– and believe me, this is not your Grandpa’s combine! A combine’s ..read more
Daddy's Tractor
3y ago
We start slowly into our homeschool year in August, but we’ve been in full swing for about a month now. This is our fourth “official” year and for any of you struggling out there I just wanted to say, it’s finally coming together. And since I’m banging my head wondering why I didn’t think of these ..read more