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Footprints In The Snow

January 26, 2014 Mercy Hill Farm Leave a comment

The other night I dreamt that I kicked the bucket and went to be with Jesus. As I was floating up into heaven on a cloud, I looked back at the snowy earth below. I noticed some footprints in the snow behind my house. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,other times there were just one set.

This bothered me a little because I noticed that during the coldest winter of my life, when I was lugging armloads of firewood through the snow from the woodshed up to the house, I could only see the one set of footprints.

So when I got up there through the gate, I said to Jesus, “Why, when I needed you most, were you not there for me?”
Jesus said,”I would never leave you Don, I don’t care how cold it gets in New Hampshire. Those times when you saw only one set of footprints, those are the times when I carried you, and all the firewood you dropped.”

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Chickens Hate the Snow

December 28, 2012 Mercy Hill Farm Leave a comment

Baby it’s cold outside.

The girls made a group decision to stay inside today. The consensus, after much clucking, was that there probably were not enough worms in the foot deep snow to warrant the usual scratchfest.

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Mercy Hill Farm Presents – “The Snowmeter”

March 12, 2011 Mercy Hill Farm Leave a comment

For anyone who’s ever climbed Mt Washington you know it sports all manner of fancy weather instruments, but because we don’t get state and federal funding here at Mercy Hill Farm, we use our farm sign as a snowmeter. Long about January 1, snow starts to hide the bottom of the sign. Come February it pretty much disappears under a blanket of white. Then in March, it starts to poke out again.

Well this year we got a little anxious for spring, so we in fact dug it out a bit by hand. Nature was undaunted and kept on piling up the snow despite our best efforts. My brother, who loves the snow is probably making matters worse with his nordic “snow dance.” No telling what THAT does to the environment.

Guess I’ll just keep on strumming and wait it out.

Don & Karen Perkins – Local Foodie Farmers in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire