Waymire Farms

First repair on Grandpa’s old C600: Brakes. 🔧

When we brought the truck home, the driveshaft brake worked, but the foot brakes were completely inoperative — so before we worry about making it pretty, we’re making it safe.

We found several issues along the way, including a broken rear brake line, leaks, and problems with the vacuum system for the old Midland Hy-Power brake booster. After replacing some lines, repairing the vacuum system, replacing the check valve, and bleeding what seemed like a lifetime’s worth of air out of the system…

We have brakes!

Three of the four wheels are braking well. The driver-side front still isn’t cooperating and will need some more attention, so we’re not calling the brake system finished just yet. But considering we started with a pedal that did absolutely nothing, this is a pretty big win.

There’s still a long list ahead of us — clutch work, the wood in the bed, gauges, lights, and plenty of other nearly 60-year-old-truck problems — but this feels like the first real step toward putting this truck back to work on the farm.

One repair at a time. 🚜

Follow along as we bring Grandpa’s C600 back to life.

We brought home a pretty special piece of Waymire Farms history this weekend. ❤️

We’ll share the full story later today. Stay tuned — this one means a lot to us!

Now that the water is gone and the dust has settled, we finally have a pretty good idea of what survived the “1,000-year flood” in the Waymire Farms garden.

Unfortunately, the answer is: not much.

A few green bean plants made it. Four pepper plants survived out of more than 25. Some of the flowers pulled through, and somehow about half of one pumpkin plant is still hanging on.

Everything else was essentially a total loss.

All of our tomatoes are gone. More than 600 onions are gone. We lost all of our carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, celery and herbs.

For a little while, we thought all the squash varieties might actually make it. The plants survived the initial flooding and looked surprisingly good afterward, but the prolonged wet conditions and incredible amount of moisture eventually caught up with them. Powdery mildew took over, and we ultimately had to call those a loss too.

It’s hard to describe how devastating it is to watch months of work disappear in a matter of days—especially when so much of it was finally reaching the point where we could start harvesting.

But that’s farming.

Sometimes you do everything right and Mother Nature still gets the last word.

The garden definitely won’t look the way we imagined it would at the end of this season, but we learned a lot from our first year growing here—and after seeing exactly how water moves across this property during an event like this, we already have plenty of ideas for how we can make next year’s garden more resilient.

For now, we’ll take care of the handful of survivors and start planning for 2027.

And those four pepper plants better produce like their lives depend on it. 😂🌶️