October 30, 2025 • 19 mins
Harvest wraps and we face the cost of fatigue, the price of convenience food, and the myth that more hours always means more success. We slow the pace, protect family time, and set intentions for the darker months so rest becomes part of the plan, not an afterthought.
• harvest finish, cleanup, and recovery
• real food vs lunch meat costs and health
• taking days off without guilt
• redefining success beyond acres and hours
• seasonal slowing and winter intentions
• family, legacy, and presence over pace
• scheduling priorities and mental quiet
• choosing enjoyment over pushing to exhaustion
• gratitude for the crop and the people
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SPEAKER_01 (00:15):
The Farmer's Greatest Asset Podcast.
We believe the Farm's GreatestAsset is the Farmer.
Their knowledge, experience,mind, and health.
SPEAKER_02 (00:37):
Welcome to the podcast.
I'm Jesse.
SPEAKER_00 (00:40):
And I'm Dr.
Leah.
SPEAKER_02 (00:42):
Well, here we are again.
A little late on the recordingof the podcast.
SPEAKER_00 (00:50):
But it's been for good reason.
SPEAKER_02 (00:54):
Harvest is done.
SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
Yay!
SPEAKER_02 (00:58):
Harvest took its toll on everybody, I believe.
Everybody's a little worn out, alittle tired.
SPEAKER_00 (01:06):
I'm gonna say exhausted is a good word for it.
Physically, mentally.
I don't know as much emotionallyor spiritually, but definitely
physically and mentallyexhausted.
SPEAKER_02 (01:18):
Fall is one of those.
Actually, fall is really notdone with tillage and clinging
equipment up and stuff likethat.
SPEAKER_00 (01:26):
But harvest is done.
SPEAKER_02 (01:27):
Harvest is done.
SPEAKER_00 (01:29):
And now it's the tidying.
SPEAKER_02 (01:32):
And it's still it's a long.
We started September 10th.
And uh it just takes a while.
SPEAKER_00 (01:43):
I'm just glad I don't have to take any meals out
to the field for a little while.
SPEAKER_02 (01:50):
Fair enough.
SPEAKER_00 (01:51):
Yeah.
So I mean, I love taking hotmeals out to you guys because I
like to provide you with goodnutrition.
SPEAKER_02 (01:58):
But I appreciate the hot meals.
SPEAKER_00 (02:01):
It gets it's it's a lot.
I mean, it's five hours of theday prepping and delivering and
moving and but it's so muchbetter than all of the lunch
meat sandwiches.
Oh, I know.
Gosh, we did lunch meat and butlike I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (02:19):
I just felt bloated and yuck and we were doing it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:25):
So appreciate the meals.
So even if I I don't even westopped counting at how many
hamburgers you had in the field.
Hamburgers and brats, butthey're you know from our farm.
So um definitely a healthieroption than the lunch meat.
(02:46):
And the cr the really I'm gonnause the word crazy thing about
it is so expensive.
Our our ground beef and ourbrats are cheaper, so much
cheaper than lunch meat.
SPEAKER_02 (03:01):
Yeah, and here we're talking in the country at the
moment about beef prices and howhigh they are and bring in
Argentinian beef and but we'llgo out and buy ten dollar a
pound lunch meat.
SPEAKER_00 (03:15):
Eleven.
SPEAKER_02 (03:16):
Right.
Ten dollars is cheap, probablyanymore for lunch meat.
Fake meat, more or less.
I mean it's meat, but it's justprocess.
It's I don't know.
We are backwards this world.
SPEAKER_00 (03:31):
Well, I don't know that it's that we're backwards.
This is again just anotherexample of how we are so
removed, like we as a societyare so removed from the farm and
agriculture that and we havebeen and and we have also been
(03:52):
trained that lunch meat and youknow, like those lunch meat
chains are healthy.
SPEAKER_02 (03:59):
Remember, was it Jared and Subway?
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00 (04:02):
Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (04:04):
Lunch meat's so bad for you.
SPEAKER_00 (04:06):
It is.
This is not where I thoughttoday would go at all.
Maybe we should like swing theother way.
So, yes, lunch meat is bad foryou, but harvest is over.
Yay! Let's let's go down thatroad.
People know how we feel aboutlunch meat, and we do do it as
(04:27):
well, because like sometimesit's all you can get done.
SPEAKER_02 (04:30):
Well, it's easy, it's convenient, so you you do
it, right?
It's no right or wrong to it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:36):
It's just right, it is it is what it is, and
sometimes you just gotta do it.
SPEAKER_02 (04:41):
You just gotta get through.
So we all do it, right?
SPEAKER_00 (04:46):
Mm-hmm.
All choices.
unknown (04:48):
Yep.
SPEAKER_02 (04:49):
So now we'll move on to some of the tillage that we
gotta do yet and clean equipmentup.
The guys are headed down todayto start blowing stuff off.
We finished Monday, afternoon,evening, and kind of just shoved
everything in the the shed andsaid it's gonna rain, so we'll
(05:11):
keep it dry so it blows offeasier.
And uh now it's time to get itout, to get it cleaned up, to
get put away.
SPEAKER_00 (05:19):
And I am so proud of you, honey.
You I I had made planted theseed for you to maybe take a
couple of days off and not haveto manage people, not have to
manage farm.
I was like, let's just pretendthat it's Saturday and Sunday,
and chores need to get done, andwe're not doing anything extra.
(05:43):
Let's give the guys the day off,and you you take the day off, or
those two days off, and you didit.
I am so proud of you.
SPEAKER_02 (05:53):
I needed it because I am still tired.
Henry and I went on a littleroad trip on Tuesday, so I don't
know.
I didn't get a whole lot of restthen, but that was fine.
Gotta spend a day with Henry.
So I am still exhausted.
But feel better because we tooka break for two days.
SPEAKER_00 (06:18):
You can continue to take a little bit more of a
break.
It doesn't have to be 150 milesan hour right now.
SPEAKER_02 (06:25):
No, we're totally slowing down.
So and that's okay, because itis October 30th, right?
SPEAKER_00 (06:35):
Yeah.
unknown (06:36):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (06:36):
It is.
SPEAKER_02 (06:37):
Days are still just kind of running together.
SPEAKER_00 (06:41):
Well, I I totally convinced myself that the last
two days were Saturday andSunday, and I woke up this
morning thinking, well, it'sMonday.
And in my mind, the forecast issupposed to be warm on Monday.
I'm like, wait, no, it'sThursday.
SPEAKER_02 (06:55):
We gotta do the podcast.
And we'll have a whole notherweekend again.
SPEAKER_00 (07:00):
I know, I'm excited.
I think we should just have, youknow, three Saturday Sundays in
a row.
SPEAKER_02 (07:05):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (07:06):
I think that's what we should do.
Let's do it.
Why can't we?
SPEAKER_02 (07:11):
We should.
SPEAKER_00 (07:12):
Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02 (07:13):
Everybody should.
You press so hard.
SPEAKER_00 (07:16):
Not everybody's done with their harvest, but fair
enough.
If you are not, I stronglysuggest taking time off.
Like you get done, just take alittle break.
It does a body good, especiallymentally.
SPEAKER_02 (07:34):
It's okay to slow down a second and take in the
blessings of what the harvesthas been.
Um and somebody said to me theother day, it was a week before
we were done, probably, andthere was like an inch
forecasted, just like normalforecast, you know, oh, there's
an inch coming.
Oh, now it's now down to half.
(07:55):
Oh, we get a half a tenth,right?
So it's like a heavy dew.
And they were like, man, Ineeded an inch because I need a
break.
Well, take a break.
Like, you don't have to pushthrough that hard all of the
time.
And I know that's just how weare.
(08:15):
And what we do.
SPEAKER_00 (08:16):
Would you have taken a break?
Because you needed a break, youwouldn't have taken a break.
You needed a break at that time.
SPEAKER_02 (08:24):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (08:25):
But you did go up to Wisconsin with me.
You took that break.
That was good.
SPEAKER_02 (08:30):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (08:32):
Yeah.
I think it's so ingrained infarming culture that if you work
hard, that's that's what youhave to do.
Just always work hard and youwill be quote unquote
successful.
And what does that really mean?
(08:56):
Like you can continue to growyour ground, but when you think
about your legacy and where youwant, like what's really
important.
If your family is important andyou are sure, providing for your
family from a masculineperspective, it's about
(09:16):
providing and safety andprotection, right?
But if you are not there forthem mentally, physically,
emotionally, are you reallyproviding what is truly needed
for your family?
SPEAKER_02 (09:34):
Generally no.
And I could see that cominghome.
I'm exhausted and yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (09:45):
Well, I think this year uh something has shifted
for me um just in the lastmonth.
And I really see the importance,and it's always kind of been
there, but even more this year,I see the importance of allowing
(10:06):
yourself to change with theseasons.
So we are halfway through fall,getting closer to winter, which
will be, you know, at the end ofDecember.
The holiday season is coming.
And in our society of, you know,we production, production,
(10:27):
production, and go, go, go, andthis event to that event and
checking all the boxes, we don'ttake time to allow ourselves to
slow down and reset and reallyregroup.
And when you sit down and thinkabout what's really important
over the holidays, it's not theshopping lists and the parties
(10:52):
and getting everything, thegifts.
SPEAKER_02 (10:55):
Going here, going there.
SPEAKER_00 (10:57):
And and I am as guilty about that production,
like in both, you know, likealways producing and checking
the boxes production, as well aslike putting on the mask and
production, and I am herebecause I feel like I have to
be.
(11:20):
Look, stepping back and beinglike, all right, this year I
want it to be different.
I want it to be us sitting bythe fire and playing a board
game.
I want it to be us having a mealtogether and then cleaning up
(11:43):
and talking while we're doingdishes.
I want it to be that you and Iare not so exhausted at the end
of the day because we have somuch work to do that we need to
numb out on our phones and ourkids will go and do the same.
(12:04):
I want it to be about what'struly important, what we want
our legacy to be, and that's ourfamily.
And we are just as guilty aseveryone else about checking the
boxes.
But this year I have theintention that we're gonna make
(12:30):
it different, and what thatmeans for us is gonna be
different than what it means forother people.
But I just strongly encourageyou to step back as we're going
into the season where it gets tobe dark.
(12:50):
Um, our bodies really need thetime to not always produce.
We need the time to have fun, weneed the time to reflect, we
need the time to plan and toreally sit and think about your
purpose, your mindset.
(13:12):
And that's how we can tie itback to nature.
Like it's time to start slowingdown, it's time to turn the
lights off at night.
It's time to spend time withyour family and the people that
you love.
And make and put the time inyour schedule for them now that
(13:34):
the harvest is done.
It's time to really prioritizewhat's truly important.
SPEAKER_02 (13:44):
And we know that the work never ends on the farm,
especially when you havelivestock.
We get it, we have livestock.
Um, but it is it is the time tocount your blessings.
Your harvest has come in.
Look for those blessings, findthem, see them, um, but then
(14:07):
have your intentions and what isreally important to you.
And for us, it is family, and uhspending quality time.
Part of that is Henry is almost18, so um probably will be
leaving soon, whatever it is,wherever he goes.
Uh so that's kind of setting inon us a little bit.
SPEAKER_00 (14:30):
Well, we got one and then another.
SPEAKER_02 (14:33):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (14:35):
So Henry and then Lucy.
SPEAKER_02 (14:38):
So we want to spend as much quality good time with
our our kids as we can.
So we suggest to everybody thatuse this time of you know less
daylight to reflect and countyour blessings and do what is
(15:02):
truly important to you.
Figure that out what it is, andact on it.
SPEAKER_00 (15:09):
The only time that you can truly figure out what
isn't what that is, is in thequiet, in the still, in the
peace, in those fringe timesthat you get, and it might be in
the middle of the day whenyou're out waiting for the feed
(15:29):
to go out in the bunk whileyou're feeding the cows.
It may be when you're out indoing your ripping in the
tractor.
But you like utilize that calm,that peace.
SPEAKER_02 (15:47):
Right.
When we say slow down, you gottaslow your mind down.
Instead of your mind racing allthe time thinking about
everything you gotta do.
Yep.
We do.
We've got a lot of stuff to doyet, but figure out what is
important to you.
SPEAKER_00 (16:07):
And then make time for that.
Prioritize it, schedule aroundit.
And we're asking ourselves thattoo.
How are we scheduling in timefor family?
Are we making it the prioritythat we say that it is?
SPEAKER_02 (16:32):
So the holidays are coming up, and make it a time of
spending time with family andquality time and Yes it is a
hustle and a bustle, but enjoyit for what it is.
SPEAKER_00 (16:46):
Enjoy your time together.
Right.
So if you're done with harvest,yay! Enjoy the slowing down and
the peace that comes at thistime of year with nature.
(17:09):
If you're not yet done withharvest, um, it's almost there.
Um try to enjoy the harvest asmuch as you can.
It's it's a busy time, but it itcan be enjoyable.
Slow down if a little bit if youcan.
SPEAKER_02 (17:25):
So with us, our harvest was winding down, and we
had I don't remember, X amountof acres.
And I said, Yep, we're gonna bedone Saturday or Sunday, but we
needed to bag it.
Uh so we were my cousin wasusing a bagger, and uh we got
the bagger back, and like we canpound this out in two, two and a
(17:47):
half days, we can just powerthrough.
But then I was like, why?
I enjoy harvest.
Let's just plug through, enjoyit, and instead of power through
and work until 10, 11, 12o'clock at night just to get it
done.
(18:07):
We can enjoy this.
The last two days.
Let's enjoy it and slow down.
SPEAKER_00 (18:11):
So I'm thankful for that.
I'm I'm thankful that you arenot just powering through
anymore.
SPEAKER_02 (18:21):
And ironically, the last day we had to fill up with
fuel or put some in, so we weran out the night before because
I like to have everything low.
Henry was filling it with fueland the fuel nozzle slipped out,
so he spilled some fuel.
And I was, I don't know, maybetired and it came out wrong, but
(18:44):
I said we went all year longwithout spilling, and he got
upset.
It's like, yeah, fall has takenhis toll.
SPEAKER_00 (18:54):
Everybody was tired.
SPEAKER_02 (18:56):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (18:57):
Still are.
SPEAKER_02 (18:59):
Still recovering.
SPEAKER_00 (19:00):
Yeah.
Well, with that, enjoy your timewherever you are in this harvest
harvest season.
SPEAKER_02 (19:10):
Thanks for listening.
SPEAKER_00 (19:11):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (19:12):
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SPEAKER_00 (19:14):
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SPEAKER_02 (19:16):
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SPEAKER_00 (19:31):
Bye.
The Farmer's Greatest Asset Podcast.
We believe the Farm's GreatestAsset is the Farmer.
Their knowledge, experience,mind, and health.
SPEAKER_02 (00:37):
Welcome to the podcast.
I'm Jesse.
SPEAKER_00 (00:40):
And I'm Dr.
Leah.
SPEAKER_02 (00:42):
Well, here we are again.
A little late on the recordingof the podcast.
SPEAKER_00 (00:50):
But it's been for good reason.
SPEAKER_02 (00:54):
Harvest is done.
SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
Yay!
SPEAKER_02 (00:58):
Harvest took its toll on everybody, I believe.
Everybody's a little worn out, alittle tired.
SPEAKER_00 (01:06):
I'm gonna say exhausted is a good word for it.
Physically, mentally.
I don't know as much emotionallyor spiritually, but definitely
physically and mentallyexhausted.
SPEAKER_02 (01:18):
Fall is one of those.
Actually, fall is really notdone with tillage and clinging
equipment up and stuff likethat.
SPEAKER_00 (01:26):
But harvest is done.
SPEAKER_02 (01:27):
Harvest is done.
SPEAKER_00 (01:29):
And now it's the tidying.
SPEAKER_02 (01:32):
And it's still it's a long.
We started September 10th.
And uh it just takes a while.
SPEAKER_00 (01:43):
I'm just glad I don't have to take any meals out
to the field for a little while.
SPEAKER_02 (01:50):
Fair enough.
SPEAKER_00 (01:51):
Yeah.
So I mean, I love taking hotmeals out to you guys because I
like to provide you with goodnutrition.
SPEAKER_02 (01:58):
But I appreciate the hot meals.
SPEAKER_00 (02:01):
It gets it's it's a lot.
I mean, it's five hours of theday prepping and delivering and
moving and but it's so muchbetter than all of the lunch
meat sandwiches.
Oh, I know.
Gosh, we did lunch meat and butlike I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (02:19):
I just felt bloated and yuck and we were doing it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:25):
So appreciate the meals.
So even if I I don't even westopped counting at how many
hamburgers you had in the field.
Hamburgers and brats, butthey're you know from our farm.
So um definitely a healthieroption than the lunch meat.
(02:46):
And the cr the really I'm gonnause the word crazy thing about
it is so expensive.
Our our ground beef and ourbrats are cheaper, so much
cheaper than lunch meat.
SPEAKER_02 (03:01):
Yeah, and here we're talking in the country at the
moment about beef prices and howhigh they are and bring in
Argentinian beef and but we'llgo out and buy ten dollar a
pound lunch meat.
SPEAKER_00 (03:15):
Eleven.
SPEAKER_02 (03:16):
Right.
Ten dollars is cheap, probablyanymore for lunch meat.
Fake meat, more or less.
I mean it's meat, but it's justprocess.
It's I don't know.
We are backwards this world.
SPEAKER_00 (03:31):
Well, I don't know that it's that we're backwards.
This is again just anotherexample of how we are so
removed, like we as a societyare so removed from the farm and
agriculture that and we havebeen and and we have also been
(03:52):
trained that lunch meat and youknow, like those lunch meat
chains are healthy.
SPEAKER_02 (03:59):
Remember, was it Jared and Subway?
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00 (04:02):
Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (04:04):
Lunch meat's so bad for you.
SPEAKER_00 (04:06):
It is.
This is not where I thoughttoday would go at all.
Maybe we should like swing theother way.
So, yes, lunch meat is bad foryou, but harvest is over.
Yay! Let's let's go down thatroad.
People know how we feel aboutlunch meat, and we do do it as
(04:27):
well, because like sometimesit's all you can get done.
SPEAKER_02 (04:30):
Well, it's easy, it's convenient, so you you do
it, right?
It's no right or wrong to it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:36):
It's just right, it is it is what it is, and
sometimes you just gotta do it.
SPEAKER_02 (04:41):
You just gotta get through.
So we all do it, right?
SPEAKER_00 (04:46):
Mm-hmm.
All choices.
unknown (04:48):
Yep.
SPEAKER_02 (04:49):
So now we'll move on to some of the tillage that we
gotta do yet and clean equipmentup.
The guys are headed down todayto start blowing stuff off.
We finished Monday, afternoon,evening, and kind of just shoved
everything in the the shed andsaid it's gonna rain, so we'll
(05:11):
keep it dry so it blows offeasier.
And uh now it's time to get itout, to get it cleaned up, to
get put away.
SPEAKER_00 (05:19):
And I am so proud of you, honey.
You I I had made planted theseed for you to maybe take a
couple of days off and not haveto manage people, not have to
manage farm.
I was like, let's just pretendthat it's Saturday and Sunday,
and chores need to get done, andwe're not doing anything extra.
(05:43):
Let's give the guys the day off,and you you take the day off, or
those two days off, and you didit.
I am so proud of you.
SPEAKER_02 (05:53):
I needed it because I am still tired.
Henry and I went on a littleroad trip on Tuesday, so I don't
know.
I didn't get a whole lot of restthen, but that was fine.
Gotta spend a day with Henry.
So I am still exhausted.
But feel better because we tooka break for two days.
SPEAKER_00 (06:18):
You can continue to take a little bit more of a
break.
It doesn't have to be 150 milesan hour right now.
SPEAKER_02 (06:25):
No, we're totally slowing down.
So and that's okay, because itis October 30th, right?
SPEAKER_00 (06:35):
Yeah.
unknown (06:36):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (06:36):
It is.
SPEAKER_02 (06:37):
Days are still just kind of running together.
SPEAKER_00 (06:41):
Well, I I totally convinced myself that the last
two days were Saturday andSunday, and I woke up this
morning thinking, well, it'sMonday.
And in my mind, the forecast issupposed to be warm on Monday.
I'm like, wait, no, it'sThursday.
SPEAKER_02 (06:55):
We gotta do the podcast.
And we'll have a whole notherweekend again.
SPEAKER_00 (07:00):
I know, I'm excited.
I think we should just have, youknow, three Saturday Sundays in
a row.
SPEAKER_02 (07:05):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (07:06):
I think that's what we should do.
Let's do it.
Why can't we?
SPEAKER_02 (07:11):
We should.
SPEAKER_00 (07:12):
Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02 (07:13):
Everybody should.
You press so hard.
SPEAKER_00 (07:16):
Not everybody's done with their harvest, but fair
enough.
If you are not, I stronglysuggest taking time off.
Like you get done, just take alittle break.
It does a body good, especiallymentally.
SPEAKER_02 (07:34):
It's okay to slow down a second and take in the
blessings of what the harvesthas been.
Um and somebody said to me theother day, it was a week before
we were done, probably, andthere was like an inch
forecasted, just like normalforecast, you know, oh, there's
an inch coming.
Oh, now it's now down to half.
(07:55):
Oh, we get a half a tenth,right?
So it's like a heavy dew.
And they were like, man, Ineeded an inch because I need a
break.
Well, take a break.
Like, you don't have to pushthrough that hard all of the
time.
And I know that's just how weare.
(08:15):
And what we do.
SPEAKER_00 (08:16):
Would you have taken a break?
Because you needed a break, youwouldn't have taken a break.
You needed a break at that time.
SPEAKER_02 (08:24):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (08:25):
But you did go up to Wisconsin with me.
You took that break.
That was good.
SPEAKER_02 (08:30):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (08:32):
Yeah.
I think it's so ingrained infarming culture that if you work
hard, that's that's what youhave to do.
Just always work hard and youwill be quote unquote
successful.
And what does that really mean?
(08:56):
Like you can continue to growyour ground, but when you think
about your legacy and where youwant, like what's really
important.
If your family is important andyou are sure, providing for your
family from a masculineperspective, it's about
(09:16):
providing and safety andprotection, right?
But if you are not there forthem mentally, physically,
emotionally, are you reallyproviding what is truly needed
for your family?
SPEAKER_02 (09:34):
Generally no.
And I could see that cominghome.
I'm exhausted and yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (09:45):
Well, I think this year uh something has shifted
for me um just in the lastmonth.
And I really see the importance,and it's always kind of been
there, but even more this year,I see the importance of allowing
(10:06):
yourself to change with theseasons.
So we are halfway through fall,getting closer to winter, which
will be, you know, at the end ofDecember.
The holiday season is coming.
And in our society of, you know,we production, production,
(10:27):
production, and go, go, go, andthis event to that event and
checking all the boxes, we don'ttake time to allow ourselves to
slow down and reset and reallyregroup.
And when you sit down and thinkabout what's really important
over the holidays, it's not theshopping lists and the parties
(10:52):
and getting everything, thegifts.
SPEAKER_02 (10:55):
Going here, going there.
SPEAKER_00 (10:57):
And and I am as guilty about that production,
like in both, you know, likealways producing and checking
the boxes production, as well aslike putting on the mask and
production, and I am herebecause I feel like I have to
be.
(11:20):
Look, stepping back and beinglike, all right, this year I
want it to be different.
I want it to be us sitting bythe fire and playing a board
game.
I want it to be us having a mealtogether and then cleaning up
(11:43):
and talking while we're doingdishes.
I want it to be that you and Iare not so exhausted at the end
of the day because we have somuch work to do that we need to
numb out on our phones and ourkids will go and do the same.
(12:04):
I want it to be about what'struly important, what we want
our legacy to be, and that's ourfamily.
And we are just as guilty aseveryone else about checking the
boxes.
But this year I have theintention that we're gonna make
(12:30):
it different, and what thatmeans for us is gonna be
different than what it means forother people.
But I just strongly encourageyou to step back as we're going
into the season where it gets tobe dark.
(12:50):
Um, our bodies really need thetime to not always produce.
We need the time to have fun, weneed the time to reflect, we
need the time to plan and toreally sit and think about your
purpose, your mindset.
(13:12):
And that's how we can tie itback to nature.
Like it's time to start slowingdown, it's time to turn the
lights off at night.
It's time to spend time withyour family and the people that
you love.
And make and put the time inyour schedule for them now that
(13:34):
the harvest is done.
It's time to really prioritizewhat's truly important.
SPEAKER_02 (13:44):
And we know that the work never ends on the farm,
especially when you havelivestock.
We get it, we have livestock.
Um, but it is it is the time tocount your blessings.
Your harvest has come in.
Look for those blessings, findthem, see them, um, but then
(14:07):
have your intentions and what isreally important to you.
And for us, it is family, and uhspending quality time.
Part of that is Henry is almost18, so um probably will be
leaving soon, whatever it is,wherever he goes.
Uh so that's kind of setting inon us a little bit.
SPEAKER_00 (14:30):
Well, we got one and then another.
SPEAKER_02 (14:33):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (14:35):
So Henry and then Lucy.
SPEAKER_02 (14:38):
So we want to spend as much quality good time with
our our kids as we can.
So we suggest to everybody thatuse this time of you know less
daylight to reflect and countyour blessings and do what is
(15:02):
truly important to you.
Figure that out what it is, andact on it.
SPEAKER_00 (15:09):
The only time that you can truly figure out what
isn't what that is, is in thequiet, in the still, in the
peace, in those fringe timesthat you get, and it might be in
the middle of the day whenyou're out waiting for the feed
(15:29):
to go out in the bunk whileyou're feeding the cows.
It may be when you're out indoing your ripping in the
tractor.
But you like utilize that calm,that peace.
SPEAKER_02 (15:47):
Right.
When we say slow down, you gottaslow your mind down.
Instead of your mind racing allthe time thinking about
everything you gotta do.
Yep.
We do.
We've got a lot of stuff to doyet, but figure out what is
important to you.
SPEAKER_00 (16:07):
And then make time for that.
Prioritize it, schedule aroundit.
And we're asking ourselves thattoo.
How are we scheduling in timefor family?
Are we making it the prioritythat we say that it is?
SPEAKER_02 (16:32):
So the holidays are coming up, and make it a time of
spending time with family andquality time and Yes it is a
hustle and a bustle, but enjoyit for what it is.
SPEAKER_00 (16:46):
Enjoy your time together.
Right.
So if you're done with harvest,yay! Enjoy the slowing down and
the peace that comes at thistime of year with nature.
(17:09):
If you're not yet done withharvest, um, it's almost there.
Um try to enjoy the harvest asmuch as you can.
It's it's a busy time, but it itcan be enjoyable.
Slow down if a little bit if youcan.
SPEAKER_02 (17:25):
So with us, our harvest was winding down, and we
had I don't remember, X amountof acres.
And I said, Yep, we're gonna bedone Saturday or Sunday, but we
needed to bag it.
Uh so we were my cousin wasusing a bagger, and uh we got
the bagger back, and like we canpound this out in two, two and a
(17:47):
half days, we can just powerthrough.
But then I was like, why?
I enjoy harvest.
Let's just plug through, enjoyit, and instead of power through
and work until 10, 11, 12o'clock at night just to get it
done.
(18:07):
We can enjoy this.
The last two days.
Let's enjoy it and slow down.
SPEAKER_00 (18:11):
So I'm thankful for that.
I'm I'm thankful that you arenot just powering through
anymore.
SPEAKER_02 (18:21):
And ironically, the last day we had to fill up with
fuel or put some in, so we weran out the night before because
I like to have everything low.
Henry was filling it with fueland the fuel nozzle slipped out,
so he spilled some fuel.
And I was, I don't know, maybetired and it came out wrong, but
(18:44):
I said we went all year longwithout spilling, and he got
upset.
It's like, yeah, fall has takenhis toll.
SPEAKER_00 (18:54):
Everybody was tired.
SPEAKER_02 (18:56):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (18:57):
Still are.
SPEAKER_02 (18:59):
Still recovering.
SPEAKER_00 (19:00):
Yeah.
Well, with that, enjoy your timewherever you are in this harvest
harvest season.
SPEAKER_02 (19:10):
Thanks for listening.
SPEAKER_00 (19:11):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (19:12):
Go find us on all of the socials.
SPEAKER_00 (19:14):
At farmers greatest asset.
SPEAKER_02 (19:16):
Like and share and follow us.
Uh send us a message atfarmersgreatestasset at
gmail.com.
We love hearing from you.
It's a good day.
To have a great day.
SPEAKER_00 (19:31):
Bye.
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