Jim Doherty may not be a born farmer, but he ____ ____ without too much trouble. Not that he has had it easy. That first hard winter he faced must have left him with the _________ to give up and go back to the city. But he managed to ______ _______ it without losing heart. He's picked up a lot of skills since then and made some real _________ to his farm, though without much laborsaving machinery, ________ __________ that old rotary cultivator. I _________ he doesn't make all that much, though he does have his writing to __________ what little __________ he makes from the farm. I guess he does it primarily for the quality of life. Certainly, they seem a happy family and you can often see them out working together, one day spraying apple trees, the next __________ firewood.