[AT] Red tractor day

[Chuck Bealke]

On 1/3/2015 11:32 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> Thank you, gentlemen.  I am indeed lucky, and I have indeed worked hard, and
> also been patient...
Dean,

Thanks for sharing about how you came to own the splendid farm and tractor.
While reading it, your comments about your good fortune reminded me of
an old favorite saying: Chance favors the prepared.  Like most real 
prizes in life
your farm and machinery show ample inputs of patience, sacrifice, hard 
work and good
decisions.  Or put another way, you earned every bit of it.  Am sure 
glad you did
and celebrate your results with you.

Your mention of multifloral rose sure brought back memories.  This 
sturdy and
ever spreading critter carefully planted as a fence row formed one of 
the sides of our farm.
It was planted by a neighbor before I was born and was a formidable barrier
and exactly as you described it. It was best to plow and work the ground 
next to it.
If not, you had best trim that with a rotary mower, because the rose 
spread and grew fast.
It was also God's gift to birds, rabbits and other wild friends that 
made a home of it.
And yup, we also had to deal with honey locust tree thorns.  Must have 
been a favorite
of the folks who cleared the fields generations ago with draft animals, 
hand saws
and axes.  The Osage Orange wood does make enduring fence posts.

Chuck Bealke
Dallas