[AT] Red tractor day

[Dean Vinson]

Chuck, thanks for your kind comments--sure been nice checking in with you
now and then over the years.  I still enjoy browsing your Life On The Farm
site at http://web2.airmail.net/bealke/ from time to time; was just now
reading about baling hay and the smell of second cutting alfalfa bales in
the barn.   Makes me want to go plant some, and I would if it weren't a
bitterly cold January night and if I had a disk, a cultipacker, a grain
drill... :)

Dean Vinson
Saint Paris, Ohio


-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Bealke
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 12:56 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Red tractor day

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