[AT] Chore day with the Super M

[Steve W.]

Carl Gogol wrote:
> Steve / Charlie
> Charlie is right, but where is the great story in that?  
> Steve - We had plenty of rocks in Jordanville too.  But then I met old
> friends of my father farming the Northern hills overlooking East Herkimer.
> I couldn't believe what came out of their ground, it was like someone had
> just dug a bumper potato crop and the whole family had to get in gear and
> load untold hay wagon loads from just a few acre piece.  This is not too far
> from where the Drive-in movie place was or maybe still is.
> Carl
> 

Jordanville is just up the road from me... I'm down in Starkville 
currently...

The plateau is full of rocks. The place I'm at now has plenty. When I 
dug the holes for the posts to support the deck I found more than a few. 
Dug down 4' in each hole, except the one that is on the southwest 
corner. That one is only 2' down. I dug and hit a stone, started to dig 
around it and it just kept getting bigger and deeper, Decided that it 
was just fine where it was, filled it back in, set the post on it and it 
hasn't moved in 25 years!

Funny you mention potatoes, We grew a large plot in a different spot for 
those, The first year hilling and then digging them was a chore. My 
uncle found an old digger and rebuilt it. Dad discovered that it also 
worked to shake out more rocks to pick.....

Sadly the drive in is gone. There are only a few left now.

-- 
Steve W.