Experiencing life openly
This has been a very interesting experience for us. Choosing to open up our (not-so-popular) lifestyle for viewers to see. It’s been a little bit nerve-racking, but all in all, we feel like this experience has been a good one for us.
Farm days and family time
Yesterday we spent the day checking on cows, getting stuck in the mud, pruning our orchard, and making a wonderfully satisfying dutch oven dinner over a campfire of all our pruned limbs.
As we sat there, all I could think about is how grateful I am for our family, and for the life that we live. Not only did we choose to live a lifestyle that isn’t easy, but we are also a farming family, and that isn’t for the faint of heart…as you can see below, a simple task of driving out to check on the cows, turns into a morning of digging our truck out of the mud.
…or driving up to check on the calves before heading to work and seeing that our newly built manger is apparently too wide, providing enough room for the calves to jump through the wall of our corral, then having to round them up quickly before we’re too late for our day jobs. Have you ever managed to get ANY kind of animal to just simply do what you want? Yeah, us neither 😉
Live the life you love, love the life you live… and share it too
We LOVE our life that we’ve created, and are happy with the opportunity to share it with you. We figured that we could share a glimpse of it with you in doing a reality TV show, but we also realize that out of the 10 hours a day of filming, that you likely would only see 5 minutes of it. We also recognize that reality TV is for entertainment purposes, and we are joining you on this roller coaster ride in hopes that we will be portrayed in a truthful light. But we also aren’t naive enough to think that editing may not be used for dramatic purposes. Nevertheless, we are excited to see the end result.
Our life is never boring, and from the looks of it won’t be for quite some time. We are working towards “growing our family” in many ways…and that includes (hopefully) 5 to our herd (Calving season is coming!) So join us in on the farm, family, & FUN!
We welcome everyone to follow our posts on this blog, where we share our journey through life. We will also be opening up Q&A’s, discussions, and maybe even video clips on our family Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/thewinderfamily/
We really do look forward to sharing our life with you all and hope you enjoy learning about us and sharing in our adventures!
-Sophie Winder