[AT] On the shoulders of giants

[Phil Auten]

I can sympathize with the comment about family farms getting cut up for 
subdivisions.

I went to visit my dad's family farm in Davison, Mi. in 1964. One of my 
uncles was still

farming then, using a pretty large John Deere (don't know the model, but 
it had a hand

clutch) raising wheat and other crops. Dad and I helped harvest the 
winter wheat and

I really enjoyed driving that JD. :o)

My late wife and I went back to visit in '99 and only the house and yard 
were left. The

rest of the land was a subdivision. The "Centennial Farm" sign was still 
in the yard

though.That was the only good thing about the visit, as nobody was home 
when we

stopped by.


Phil in Tx.


On 2/12/2017 4:31 PM, Chuck Bealke wrote:
> Y’all,
>
> Sure appreciate the comments on the thread that Spencer started, especially Farmer’s
> with the picture. My memories start as WW2 was ending and my Grandfather bought
> the farm we moved to later. A few muscles leftover from summers stacking bales are probably
> what keeps me going today, and I still miss plowing, working nice ground and mowing hay.
> Can remember my dad saying (truthfully) that we really had things pretty easy compared
> to lots of other folks - and also that there were no locks on the door if I were ever fool enough
> to want to leave home to try things somewhere else. The farm was a terrific place to grow up
> and learn important lessons of life early in a beautiful setting. Too bad so many nice ones like ours
> were cut up to make subdivisions, but memories of them are still fun years later.
>
> Chuck Bealke
> Dallas, TX
>
>> On 2/11/2017 9:05 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>>> I keep this gas can in my tractor shop, to remind me of all of the hundreds of times I mowed the yard at our family's home while growing up...
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