How A City Boy Became A Farmer

John 14:6

I am the Way, the Truth, and the

Life. No one come to the Father except

through me. (NIV)

 

Index
City Boy Longs for the Farm	1-8
The Menger/Guenther Sawmill	10-14
Grandma Jonas	16-21
Dog Patch	22-25
Grandpa Jonas	26-30
Out Home	31-33
Uncle Eddie	34-36
The Cottage at Cedar Lake	37
Family Heritage	38-42
Grandma and Grandpa Cooper	43-48
My Brother Jack	49-51
My Second Home, The Mertz Farm	52-57
Threshing Oats	58-62
The Next Generation Farmers	63
My Many Illnesses	64
My Early Sex Ed	67-70
Smokey’s Hat	71-74
The Contraption	75-76
Joan at the Farm	77-81
Brother Butch on the Farm	82–87
Paper Route, Pigeons and Rabbits	88-91
The Move to North Carolina	92-98
The Restaurant Business	99-100
My I Freshman Year in High School	101
Summer on the Farm	103-109
A Full-time Farmhand	110-114
Finish High School	115-117
Back to the Mertz Farm	118-121
A Good Neighbor, Edgar Miske	122-126
High School Graduation	127-128
The Rocky Road to Farm Ownership (preview)	129

John 15:12-13

My command is this; love each other as I have

loved you. Greater love has no one than this,

that he lay down his life for his friends. (NIV)

Mark 1:15

The time has come, He said. the kingdom of

God is near. Repent and believe the Good

News. (NIV)

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and

lean not on your own understanding; in all

your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make

your paths straight. (NIV)

Proverbs 31: 30-31

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;

but a woman who fears the Lord is to be

praised. Give her the reward she has earned,

and let her works bring her praise at the city

gate. (NIV)