[AT] Lonesome Moe

[Robinson]

	I have just been too busy too do much for the local tractor 
show this year but I didn't just want to do nothing. This 
morning we went to the west barn and I got my MM-R out and 
brought it to the shop to hose the dust off of it. I just 
drove it the 3 miles in there since it was (maybe) easier 
than hitching the trailer, loading it, chaining it down, 
pulling it in there, unloading it then pulling the trailer 
back home. I say maybe because it could use a softer seat... 
   :-)   Traffic was very heavy but most of the busy part 
was 4 lane so I was not too much of a bottleneck. 
Rubbernecking is another matter. I think more people gave it 
a good once over driving it in there than will see it at the 
show. Maybe we should just have road caravans instead of 
parading around the fairgrounds.
	When I got to the fairgrounds I rolled in and parked it in 
the "Minneapolis Moline" row. It sure looked lonely sitting 
there all by itself...   :-)   Maybe someone will bring in 
another so it won't feel too left out. I did make it a point 
to pull over and park it behind the few Allis Chalmers 
tractors instead of all of those John Deere's. Everybody 
knows that Allis tractors are more friendly than Deere's. 
:-)   Maybe that is just a local thing. I did feel a little 
sorry for one Farmall H that was parked with the Deere's. It 
had been painted John Deere green and yellow. It had decals 
on it that looked like Farmall decals except they were 
yellow instead of white. At least they had done a nice job 
on it.
	Farmall is the feature tractor here this year and it looked 
like they were going to have a decent number of them. The 
show in general seems to be getting a little better and I 
really wanted to do a little more this year than in the past 
but I just have too many irons in the fire with CUB Fest and 
the horse stuff and being late planting crops. The grass has 
grown so much this spring that we are starting to feel like 
all we have done is mow grass. Sure glad I bought a new lawn 
tractor this year. The old frazzled Wheel Horse deck would 
have already broken 6700 times by now.   :-)  It has broken 
and been welded so may times that some of it looks pad 
welded. Maybe I can show a lot more stuff at the local show 
next year...
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Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
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