OT/Journal/diary

Just Bill · Jul 6, 2014

Do any of you keep a journal or a diary?? If not you should. Remember that 50 years from now this will be old times. Wouldn't you like to know what your father or grand father did or planted? Your grand kids or great grandkids would probably like to know what you did as well.
Another though - If the Gov., monitored this site they would probably get a better understanding of the agricultural situation in both our Countrys than with all the expensive surveys they do

Frank 41 · Jul 6, 2014

The gov already know what they want to know. Who do you think gave away the media widths to the certain media?

Anonymous-0 · Jul 6, 2014

I just finished writing a 60000 word journal or book if you will about growing up on a farm and the things our family did. It took about 4 years of straining the old brain but it was fun. I'm 57 years old.

Grey · Jul 6, 2014

I agree….I keep a daily journal to help me keep track of everything like planting dates, rainfall, labor, etc. Basically anything and everything I do every day. Its all on my laptop and then backs up every night to a hard drive. It has really saved me trying to remember things. I also write in family stuff too. My boys are young now, 3 yrs old and 7 months old, but I do want them to be able to look back years from now and read what i wrote about them growing up on the farm and how I ran the farming operation that will be theirs some day. I even leave little notes directly to them in the journal. I have a few journals and record books from my grandpa, but would love to have more and know what he went through to get the farm to where it is today.

casecollectorsc · Jul 6, 2014

Not so hi-tech, but when I milked cows I wrote on the calendar each evening milking what went on each day.

Goose · Jul 6, 2014

I have a loose leaf notebook my mother wrote. She titled it, "The Way Things Were".

It's all written in longhand and includes stories about her early life as a kid on a farm, how and when she met my father, etc. The entire notebook is filled, in no particular order. She just wrote things down as they came to mind.

I'd love to take the time to rewrite it on my computer in chronological order. Someday I may have the time.

notjustair · Jul 6, 2014

I write in each day on a book type calendar. Anything done on the farm goes in (planting, harvesting, etc) as well as extremes in weather and livestock breeding and weening information. You would be amazed how often I refer to it. Usually I find when I say to someone "this is the latest we have ever done..." when I look in the book it was within a week the previous year.

They are probably junk to anyone else after I am gone but they serve their purpose with me. I wish I still had grandpas but I didn't get them.

Fergienewbee · Jul 7, 2014

Not a journal per say, but I keep track of every penny I spend. I save all my change, so mark that down too. A typical entry might read: $20.00 gas, bolts $2.19, change .81. I've been doing it for about a year and a half and might have five dollars I can't account for. I don't know that I have any more money, but I know where it went.

Larry

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