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Hi - well, we were both born and raised in WI . Transfer brought us to this place . So, we have a good mix of western and midwestern influences. Thought of you good people today as I drove down trash street (name applies to many streets). Geez, we have a lot (a whole lot) of empty store fronts and offices. It seems that they just empty and here comes the tagging committee. I know times are very hard, I do get that. But why on earth would people want to make a bad situation worse ? I am again so relieved that even though you have higher unemployment numbers than usual, that good common decency prevails and destruction of property (personal and business) hasn't hit SF or RC.
Yeah Jammie, I'm not the cowboy type at all. In fact, when I tell people I'm from Western SD they ask if I live on a ranch. I say, "No, surprisingly I live in the only city in the whole area." I guess I'm a city kid from the boonies!
Danny, you sound like me... Although I did originally grow up on a farm.. until I was in 7th grade, then my parents moved into town... I loved the farm when I was really young...but growing up...it just wasn't my thing.
My dad did make some nice $$$ on the farm! He knew how to do it, and he did it right.
Driving a tractor is kinda fun though... Just get one with a cab & A/C... a good radio/CD player.. and one that is "auto"...
I hated driving them on roads though... In the field, no problem...
Danny, you sound like me... Although I did originally grow up on a farm.. until I was in 7th grade, then my parents moved into town... I loved the farm when I was really young...but growing up...it just wasn't my thing.
My dad did make some nice $$$ on the farm! He knew how to do it, and he did it right.
Driving a tractor is kinda fun though... Just get one with a cab & A/C... a good radio/CD player.. and one that is "auto"...
I hated driving them on roads though... In the field, no problem...
OFF TOPIC ALEART!
NO! No radios in tractors no air conditioning none of that. Its just not the same, running down the field stacking hay with tailwind.
Now I admit I liked the air conditioning and suspension seat. That was best, riding on a big green tractor. I miss those days. It is something I am really missing this summer. Its been 10 years since I worked in a hay field.
The sound of a 4020 working under a load, or a making hay with a 4240...
I moved away. I would love to head out and cut a field again.
NO! No radios in tractors no air conditioning none of that. Its just not the same, running down the field stacking hay with tailwind.
Now I admit I liked the air conditioning and suspension seat. That was best, riding on a big green tractor. I miss those days. It is something I am really missing this summer. Its been 10 years since I worked in a hay field.
The sound of a 4020 working under a load, or a making hay with a 4240...
I moved away. I would love to head out and cut a field again.
Debey, you made me nostalgic now. Farm girl here. Well, not anymore, but I grew up on the farm in the mid 50s and 60s and early 70s. Things weren't too modern at the time~not for us anyway. We had a team of horses and so did our neighbors. We shocked bundles, thrashed, hauled bales by hand, etc. We had no loader, no AC, no cabs on the tractors, etc. We had to help out picking corn by doing it by hand and picking up the ends. My parents were old school and when you hit 5 years old, it was time to work.
We milked cows by hand, of course. It was a LOT of work, but it was a good life. Would I go back to it? Not a chance.
Graffitti, as the song says, is when I painted my girlfriends name on the water tower. But then I had to paint over it when I got caught.
Believe me, there were a lot less bottles of courage during the repainting.
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. So, we have a good mix of western and midwestern influences. Thought of you good people today as I drove down trash street (name applies to many streets). Geez, we have a lot (a whole lot) of empty store fronts and offices. It seems that they just empty and here comes the tagging committee. I know times are very hard, I do get that. But why on earth would people want to make a bad situation worse 
? I am again so relieved that even though you have higher unemployment numbers than usual, that good common decency prevails and destruction of property (personal and business) hasn't hit SF or RC.
Hey, RJ.............
We had a team of horses and so did our neighbors. We shocked bundles, thrashed, hauled bales by hand, etc. We had no loader, no AC, no cabs on the tractors, etc. We had to help out picking corn by doing it by hand and picking up the ends. My parents were old school and when you hit 5 years old, it was time to work.
