I sure am glad I grew up when and where I did. Before the safety nannies took over and a boy could still be a boy. Riding on Grampa's lap on the Allis B. Playing with cherry bombs and big old snapping turtles. Messing with electricity and getting zapped. Riding for miles and miles on my cousin's JD 560 cultivating corn, mowing hay, cutting silage and plowing. Standing on the axle with no fenders. Just the big cultivator handles to hang one to. Talking and singing songs. Cousin John could yodel so well. Lifting each other with the hay forks in the hay mow and getting dropped on the hay. Spending the whole summer in the swamps, lakes and river where a kid could disappear and never be found. Hunting, trapping muskrats and carrying a long birch sapling in case you went through the ice you could could use it crawl out. Building go carts out of lawn mower engines and no chain guards or safety devices anywhere. Rickety death trap cars. Climbing trees and your brother chopping them down from under you. I suppose it's safer now. Fewer accidents. Of course boys aint much for being boys either. Good at video games maybe. The world is no longer aimed at building the strongest but the weakest of us. The attitude is we are willing to curtail the fun and freedom of the many if it will save one child. I'm glad I'm as old as I am. Got to have a little fun, make a few memories before they took it all away. Don't want to live in a place where the safety nannies rule the show. Regulate this. Outlaw that. Tame the boys and make them girls. Toughen the girls to try to make them like boys. Make them all the same. Dumb them down. Dull them up. Take away their ability to discover things on their own. Feed them constant garbage on TV. Make em all afraid of everything. Protect and pamper them till they rot inside. Protect them from everything till they are sick of life. The suicide rate amongst teens and young adults is higher than it has ever been. And no one cares to wonder why...
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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