Hello to fellow WELS, and all other Lutherans!

[QuiltAngel]

Hi Becky, from one "preacher's wife" to another. Though I am LCMS - the confessional side of things though.

Glad to have you here.

 

[PreachersWife2004]

Glad you found us Becky. Its really nice to have another Ministers wife with us. Oh yeah, I'm WELS too and not to far from you. I'm in Lenawee county

Ooh...what church do you go to? I bet I know your pastor!

 

[PreachersWife2004]

Hi Becky, from one "preacher's wife" to another. Though I am LCMS - the confessional side of things though.

Glad to have you here.

It's always nice to hear from other pastors' wives. I've only been one for three years. It's interesting to say the least, that's for sure.

Sometime I'll have to share how my hubby and I got together. It's a good story. Suffice to say, I went almost two years saying how I wouldn't make a good pastor's wife. Guess I was wrong!

 

[Jim47]

Ooh...what church do you go to? I bet I know your pastor!

Its St. Johns in Riga. Yes, you may very well know him. He just recieved a call he is considering right now. He's only been with us 4 years, I'm hoping for a little longer yet, but I trust what ever God puts in his heart.

 

[LutheranChick]

Hello! I joined yesterday, and just found this thread - so busy exploring this interesting forum! I am ELS. Hoping to have some good discussions!

 

[DaSeminarian]

Hello! I joined yesterday, and just found this thread - so busy exploring this interesting forum! I am ELS. Hoping to have some good discussions!

Really? ELS? Where do you live in the US?

I only know of a few up in Minnesota.

 

[LutheranChick]

Really? ELS? Where do you live in the US?

I only know of a few up in Minnesota.

Pretty close to MN - Iowa!

 

[PreachersWife2004]

My parents attend an ELS church up in Sutton's Bay when they are on vacation at Lake Leelanau. I have attended too...it was rather weird using the TLH again, but nice.

Welcome, LutheranChick! Glad to have you here!

 

[LutheranHawkeye]

Hiya PreachersWife2004. All of this talk about conservative Lutherans makes me think of a big church in the future hopefully. When LCMS meets WELS meets the conservative folk of the ELCA. We'd be the biggest Lutheran church in the U.S. and we'd also be the biggest conservative Lutheran church in the world ...I think. Give that a whirl.

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

Pretty close to MN - Iowa!

Iowa---hmm....corn, corn and more corn. At 3.50 a bushel this year it's a good investment.

 

[QuiltAngel]

Rad,
Don't forget the soybeans!!

Don forget the pigs.

Let's see, corn, soybeans and pigs. Yep, that about sums it up.

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

That was what I saw about 15 years ago so it must have changed to growing more soybeans. That's a good cash crop to.

For about 20 years previously the family would spend 2 weeks outside of Fargo ND in MN on Blanche lake catching crappie. Right by Beaver Tail lake. I think I fished it out then. We would take a 50 quart cooler and fill it with fillets--yes fillets. 1 lb slab crappie on up. Yum..........

 

[DaRev]

Don forget the pigs.

Hmmmm... pork bellies....

If you invest in pork bellies, just make sure you don't go "belly up".

 

[QuiltAngel]

Well, when the weather conditions are just right, the odor is enough for me. Fortunately, the hog lot near me is small.

 

[LutheranHawkeye]

Actually here in Iowa my dad is a farmer and farming is still pretty tough. He makes around 360k a year but after farming costs its only about 100k.

 

[latebloomer]

When I was in high school, I had a job in the office of a grain elevator. For you city folks, that's where the farmers take their grain to be sold. The price of corn was $2 a bushel. It was $2 to $2.50 most of the time for the next 30 years, until they started using corn to manufacture ethanol to mix with gasoline. $3.50 to $4 corn is something very recent--just the last 3 or 4 years. It's hard work making money in farming.

 

[LutheranChick]

Oh for sure, corn, soybeans, pigs - a few dairy farms and beef here and there too. I grew up on a farm that raised corn and milked cows - oh and for any of you that think Iowa is flat - it isn't here!

The latest thing springing up everywhere is ethanol plants. I am still trying to figure out if making ethanol for fuel is REALLY conserving oil - as my physics teacher once upon a time taught us that you can't MANUFACTURE energy that gives out more than it requires - I think that's some law of physics. But then again that was a long time ago and maybe (???) they've got some new methods. I may have strayed a bit off topic - hope no one minds!

 

[QuiltAngel]

How many casions do we have now?

 

[filosofer]

Actually here in Iowa my dad is a farmer and farming is still pretty tough. He makes around 360k a year but after farming costs its only about 100k.

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Wow! 100k - that's far better than I have ever made in a year in my entire life.

We lived on a farm in northern MN. In high school in addition to our work on the farm, I tried to make some extra money. We sold baled hay: my brother and I cut it, raked it, baled it, and stacked it in the barn for the people - we each made 1 cent/bale.

We also cut wood for winter heat (for our own use, about 30 cords of oak and maple). So I cut more trees, hauled it up to the house on wagons, used a buzz saw on the tractor to cut into firewood, stacked it to dry, split the wood, stacked it on a wagon, delivered with a tractor, stacked the wood in the person's wood shed - I made $10/cord.

No wonder I feel old...

In Christ's love,
filo
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[QuiltAngel]

Um, that is suppose to be "casinos"