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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand
Came across I20 yesterday threw the Mississippi delta region of north La. and saw a couple of guys in the fields with combines harvesting corn. So the corn harvest has started. I guess these guys have never been told about working on Sunday.

Truck passed me with a live bottom trailer full of sweat potatoes so that harvest has started also.

One guy had the sprinkler system going on a field of beans and you can now tell the cotton fields because the bolls are forming and you can see the white dots all threw the fields.

I had to limp home. Teach me to work on Sunday.
Truck developed a engine oil leak. I noticed it because the drive line and wind turbulence was throwing it on the cabs back window. Got out and the rear ends were full of oil from the spray. Went threw 2 gallons of oil to make it 554 miles but I got it home.
 
Harvestime knows no time or date Its all in Mother Natures hands and its really all about a PAYDAY could be raining on Monday GIT ER DONE!!!!
 
Break downs on Sunday let you get parts on Monday, so it's not a bad thing.

What is rough is break downs Friday after 5 or maybe Saturday after noon.

Here in Minnesota for hay a rain is just around the corner, and for harvest in fall snow and such is just around the corner, there is no such thing as a planned day off, you run when you can and hope you get done before ma nature says you are through for the year. Days off are when the weather shuts you down.

Almost all farmers in my bigger neighborhood are weekend farmers, have a real job of some sort for living on and health insurance, weekends is the prime farming time.

The elders in the 40s and 50s worked on Sunday as well, church had to figure out an allowance for that or lose members - if the weather gives you an opportunity you farm, or you get no crop. Day of the week doesn't matter on that! Not around here.

Paul
 
I have a next door neighbor who never works on Sunday, even if it's during harvest and they're forecasting rain for the next day. That's his day for him and his "horsie" friends to play with their horses.

Years ago, a friend of mine had a stack of hay that heated up and self destructed. His father swore to the day he died that the reason the stack did that was because it was put up on Sunday. Who can argue?

I'll work on Sunday, but never before 1pm. We go to church Saturday evening, and Sunday morning is my time to do the crossword puzzle in the Sunday paper.
 
Regarding work on Sunday: Luke 14:5 KJV: And Jesus answered them, saying, "Which of you shall have an a s s or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?"

The Bible says ya gotta do what ya gotta do when ya gotta do it.
 
Most of the corn around north central Texas is in the bins now but the milo is still in the field. I do not recall ever seeing the corn harvested before the maize/milo, or before September. Local BTO says is was just late planting on the milo due to spring rains in this area. He also said the corn did not yield well this year here.
 
My grandfather always said you work on Sunday to get caught up on things but do not work Sunday to get ahead. Works well for me.
 
I am in Leon county north of Houston. From what I have seen around here. The corn crop might as well be plowed under.
 
The pharisees criticized Jesus for healing on the Sabbath-which is actually Saturday and not Sunday. The Lord said remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. Now, that doesn't meant not to work for we don't mind going to restaurants and forcing the workers there to work but He meant for those under the law to keep a day holy to honor God. Under the New Covenant we are not under the Law but under Grace. We are to keep each day holy in the sense we make Him Lord of all. It is good to find a day to rest which sometimes is hard to do. Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. Legalism will destroy a personal relationship with God.
 
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