Finding Routine on the Unpaved Road{4.16.26} Feeding livestock is a daily thing.Walking the herd.Checking for any signs of illness.Making notes.Tagging newborns.Picking out the sassy ones.Snagging photos of the ones I’d like to maybe keep down the road. It’s routine. It’s rhythm. It’s what we do. And yet—rarely is it ever the same. Lately, finding that […]

“Cold Fronts & Heavy Hearts” Last week had me fooled. T-shirt weather. Sunshine. A little glimpse of what’s coming. The kind of day that makes you believe you’ve made it through the worst of it. And then Monday showed up. Cold. Bitter. The kind that cuts through chore coats and settles deep in your bones. […]

2026 — Grit, Grace & the Road Ahead There’s something about the quiet of a new year that feels holy. The calendar flips. The dust settles. And we stand at the edge of a dirt road once again—boots on, hands open, hearts a little weathered, but willing. 2025 was hard. Not the kind of hard […]

Sometimes life goes HAYwire… and honestly? It feels like God is gently nudging—sometimes pushing—me down a different path than the one I planned. My website and blog have been through so many stages over the years. Versions. Revisions. Re-starts. Rebuilds. And to be completely honest? It’s been a real pain in the butt. A holy, […]

How Far We’ve Come… There’s something about a Monday morning on the farm — the quiet hum of chores, the breath of cold air, the way the sun hits the fields — that makes me pause and look back at how far we’ve truly come. When I started Chronicles of Kayla, I was in a […]

Social Media can be a big and powerful or as little & private as you want it to be. Last night as Keaton & I were *attempting* to work through some homework of his, it was talking about social media & the impact it has on people. Today I finally sat down and edited some […]

💓💗🩷 Hello February 🩷💗💓 February is the month of love. But not just any love. It’s a love that’s deep and lasting. It’s a love that’s willing to endure the cold and the snow for the sake of spring. 💞 January was hard … but it didn’t last forever. { thank goodness 😅} February is […]

Wow what a week .. and in case you missed it – Jason and I went north for the last several days to hang out with our Massey Ferguson Team, in Iowa at the 2024 Farm Progress Show. in todays Episode of The Chronicles of Kayla we’re at the  @FarmProgressDaily  #FPS24 show in Boone Iowa […]

Hey hay! Welcome to the Chronicles of Kayla where I share my daily farm life chaos! I am a first generation female farmer along side my husband Jason. We run a Hay & Cattle Operation in North-East Missouri.  What started out as a simple SAE Forage project in FFA almost 20 years ago, has grown […]

Honestly I haven’t felt like “bloggin” life so much like I had once done .. my writing essentially had “dried” up.. the need to share my constant thoughts .. bogged down by the feelings of not being good enough … followed by over sharing .. and then “am I even making a difference?” …. Some […]