Thanks, Eric, EYE alwaz new mi skoolin wud hep mi sumday! Mi potatografy clas heped two. ;v) Ma always did accuse me of drinking away the last of my senses. I concur. I injured my back, quit drinking & started small-time farming in my spare time. Sometimes, I just don't learn! LOL! Seriously, though, I would truely go crazy if it weren't for the hobby farming & model train layout in the basement. I won't take a desk job & I'm not going to sit around all day "livin' off o-ther peoples taxes". I would start scratchin' at the wallpaper & talkin' to the lights. No thanks!
The farm in the background is the family farm. My Mother's side of the family originated about a 1/4 mile down the road. My Grandparents married in '40 & lived in Milwaukee until '42. My Great-grandfather already owned the farm & let them move in to settle down into a farm life. While living in Milwaukee, my Grandpa picked up the A.O. Smith job. Before that, he poured silos for an outfit out of Beaver Dam(?). I also recall hearing a tale about a certain someone, hanging on for dear life under a 'shine truck. Back in the "other" Great Depression, Mr. Capone had quite a few stills & barrels hiding in the neighborhood.
My grandparents started with cows, pigs, horses & chickens. They got rid of the horses in the '50s & the cows in the mid '60s (not sure about the chickens), shortly before my Great-grandfather passed. If I remember, milk wasnt paying enough to keep 15 - 20 head at the time & Grandpa was sick & tired of getting bit by one of the ornery horses. They stuck with the pigs until the mid '70s. They got a mean case of distemper in the barn & lost all 82 pigs & a bunch of piglets in under two weeks. Whatever it was, it killed off all but two cats & the dog didn't last the summer. After that, Grandpa bought the 560, a mower-conditioner setup identical to mine (minus the fast hitch) & a slightly used 400 Cyclo-Air planter. He used the planter to put in sweet corn, on one-half the farm, for the cannery. The mower-conditioner was used to make cash hay on the other half.
1986 was a sad year for me. The world had just lost IH & Allis Chalmers & my Grandpa rented out the entire farm to a neighbor. The 560 & planter were the first to go. The rest of the machines followed suit until my Grandparents passed in '94. By then, all that was left was the H & a few unsaleable machines. I got the H on behalf of my Mother. She used one of her "picks", when they divvied up the farm, to secure the H for me. The remnant machinery was mine to do what I want with. My youngest Aunt currently lives there.
I would like to interject a moment of my youth at this point. I spent any & every minute, that I could spare in my childhood, enjoying time with my Grandparents & roaming through-out the barn & shed. I was always up to something. Endless hours of sitting on the 8N, "driving" all over creation. The H at that time was a big tractor to me & couldn't wait to be big enough to handle such a beast. I remember I got scolded once, at the ripe old age of 7, for taking the manure spreader apart. I managed to get the front wheels off by the time my Grandma found out what I was up to. "You put those back before Dad catches you!!", I can hear it like it was yesterday. I put them back. Then I proceeded to start taking the rear beaters off (they weren't out front where I could be seen). Uh-oh! Someone told Grandpa I was up to no good.
"I thought you took the wheels off", he grumped.
"I did & put them back", I quipped.
"Well, what are you doing to the beaters, then?".
"Uh, putting them back together?".
"Hmph, I thought so & don't let me catch you doing it again".
"OK!"
I don't think I've turned a wrench that fast in a long time. I even cleaned he pig "eggs' off of the beaters. All in time to wash up & eat dinner. Quietly.
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