[AT] Tractor club now decorating for a show

[Larry Goss]

No.  Things are much different in climate here in western Poland (beween Warta and Odra rivers) than other places we have visited in the last three weeks.  We are getting daily reports from the Baltic coast and it is much wetter up there than it is here.

We toured the East Line between those rivers two days ago.  These defensive installations that were built in 1934 bring back many unpleasant memories for me of WWII.  I was just a kid during the war, but the extent of the madness that was going on at that time is incomprehensible.  We toured about 1.5 kilometers of tunnels.  There are over 170 kilometers of tunnels that have been explored, but there are still nearly 2 kilometers-worth that have been documented in old German writings but that have not been located.  Supposedly, there are several complete museums full of materials squirreled away that could be located there.  True?, Maybe.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Mattias Kessén <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 20:40
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor club now decorating for a show
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Have they had the same weather as we have??
> 
> Mattias
> 
> 2008/8/19 Larry Goss <rlgoss at insightbb.com>:
> >
> >
> > Farmer, I'm sorry to change the subject on you, but I've been 
> thinking about you all day after going through a Polish town 
> near the German border that was having a farmer's fair all 
> through their downtown.
> >
> > As mascots or symbols of what was going on, they had decorated 
> all the routes in and out of town with super-size dolls dressed 
> as farmers and farmers wives.  Each doll was made up of 
> three large round hay bales.  Two were stacked vertically 
> on end for the body, and a third was laying down on top of 
> them.  One end of the top bale was decorated as a face with 
> large pieces of cloth for the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the 
> rest of the body was draped and wrapped with large pieces of 
> cloth for the dress, apron, bib overalls, etc, and the wife had 
> a colorful bedspread as a babushka.
> >
> > IMHO, it was a clever idea, and I thought of you because of 
> the work you do at Connor's Prairie.  Others on the list 
> may have seen this before and use it at shows, but this was a 
> first for me.
> >
> > I've been tempted to take picture after picture along the 
> route in the last couple of weeks because it is harvesting 
> season over here for a number of grains, but I decided not to, 
> simply because there is just so much going on.  There is 
> everything from combining, mowing, and baling, to old-fashioned 
> fertizing (manure and lime) and lots of moldboard plowing and a 
> little minimum till soil preparation.  The equipment is all 
> Bison, Claas, Ursas, Volvo, Peugeot, and a few other European 
> brands with models ranging from the mid-60's to present 
> day.  I have seen just one, John Deere unit, and it was a 
> very late model.
> >
> > What corn I have seen growing looked pretty sick   
> It looked like it suffered from early drought and then got 
> drowned with too much water too late in the season.
> >
> > Larry
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