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j meyer

02-24-2007 21:29:12




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I am sitting in the snowstorm here in Minnesota and I got thinking about days gone past. One thing that comes to mind is when we milked, we had a Mid-Am sign at the end of our drive way. I just find it amazing how many of these old signs have been long thrown away or the hangers sit alone now. Of course Mid-Am is now DFA, but I remember DFA never pushed too hard for dad to get a sign before we quit milking....oh well....just remembering the simpler times.

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Steve Crum

02-25-2007 12:03:19




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 Re: mid am signs in reply to j meyer, 02-24-2007 21:29:12  
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This is what hung at the end of the road for years. It's about ths only thing I got from the farm when it was liquidated.



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JOHN HARMON

02-25-2007 07:41:14




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 Re: mid am signs in reply to j meyer, 02-24-2007 21:29:12  
"We use Surge Milkers" along with"Prairie Farmer Protective Union"Signs were prominent at the Driveway Entrance to our Farm. They were attached to a large Painted Sign with a view of our Barn and some Trees with a Guernsey Cow grazing in the forground.At the top Lettering to read"Ottawa Guernsey Farm"was prominent. Now days when you drive by a "Farm" most likely you see"Keep out" or "No Trespassing" or maybe " For Sale= 1 to 5 Acre Ranchettes" depending upon what part of the Country you live in. We used to laugh at a Farmer back in ILL. who was "Selling his Farm a Load at a time", He dealt in Black Dirt. Now that poor old Farm is a Sea of Roofs and most of those people do not know and do not care who their Neighbor is. Just leave me alone and stay off my Property is their attitude which is prevalent where ever you may live. Sad departure from when I was a Child some 70 years ago.

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jpl

02-25-2007 01:20:03




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 Re: mid am signs in reply to j meyer, 02-24-2007 21:29:12  
you guys are sure bringing back good memories, in very early forties i remember we lived in a old log house, in winters mom would heat bricks in old wood stove or on top ,then she wrapped them up and went up stairs and put them in our bed, boy when she sent us packing to bed it was nice and warm under the covers, they would stay warm a long time, remember my older brother waking one morning with snow on his bed, blowed through the cracks where chinks fell out, our water we packed in a bucket from a old spring house, running water ha ha i would always look in bottom and see the crawdads it was about 3 feet deep and 3 foot wide. life in ohio, it was great thro. we all growed up healthy.

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Walt Davies

02-24-2007 22:23:49




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 Re: mid am signs in reply to j meyer, 02-24-2007 21:29:12  
I was 4 almost 5 when we moved to the ranch in 1943 at Loomis, CA it wasn't much and old shack of a house a few out building and some fruit trees that needed a lot of work before they would produce. I met my 1st rattlesnake almost head on that summer picking some plums. He got the dog right beside me and grandmother heard the rattle an came running with the shovel that she alway carried with her. that snake never new what hit him.
Boy does that bring back the memories I wonder how many kids now would believe that we lived in such poor conditions. Not much better than camping out without a tent or stove or lights.
It was War years and Grampa wanted to build a barn and a house for Mother but in those days you couldn't build a house so he told the man in charge that he wanted to build a very big barn. He did build that big barn and also a house for Mother and us 6 kids. I guess you could say that legally I grew up in barn. Walt

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37 chief

02-24-2007 22:19:47




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 Re: mid am signs in reply to j meyer, 02-24-2007 21:29:12  
If I wanted to put up any type of sign on my property,I would need to go to the city and apply for a permit, and I am sure a fee would be attached. Not too stormy here in S Calif. to night, but often think of times past, growing up on the farm, seams like things were a lot simpler then. Dad, and Mom are both gone now. Still have all those memories of time's past. Stan



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PaulW_NJ

02-24-2007 21:38:11




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 Re: mid am signs in reply to j meyer, 02-24-2007 21:29:12  
Seems like stormy nights are good times to look back. I have so many memories of things as a kid that just don"t exist anymore. I try to share them with my own kids, but they don"t know what I"m talking about. I remember when my grandfather first built a house in the country the well wasn"t drilled till a couple years later. The job for us kids was to have to walk a mile to a neighbor farm to fill up water buckets. Boy did that water taste good when they finally drilled it. Even then we had to go outside and pump it.

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