[AT] Sad times

[Ralph Goff]

On 7/24/2019 7:30 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>
> Same thing here in Western OK...   I talked to a fellow who grew up in 
> SE Missouri from the Army Corps of Engineers back in about 2005 or 
> so...   He said when he left to go to Korea with the U S Army, he had 
> verbally commit ted to buying a 1/4 section and was going to come back 
> and farm.   3 years later when he returned, he could no longer afford 
> the land and it took 6 or 7, 1/4 sections to make a living.   He went 
> to work for the Corps... It has only gotten worse year by year.  
> Americans do not realize how little of their paycheck goes for food 
> compared to the rest of the world.  I won't go on, it would probably 
> get political.  It makes me so sad because  I wanted to be a farmer 
> since I was 8yrs old.  I remember laying in the middle of the living 
> room floor looking at the new Progressive Farmer  Mag and drooling 
> over the new Allis Chalmers D21, and going to the State Fair and 
> sitting in the cab of a new 2470 Case 4WD.    I finally bought one 6 
> years ago and just need to change the tires and wheels...
> Now I sit here with Ice on my knee & ankle due to tripping over a 
> stick in the grass while feeding the horses...  If you guys heard a 
> loud noise coming from OK about 2pm yesterday, it was me when I 
> tripped and ended up sitting on my ankle with my bad knee bent farther 
> than it has for a few years.............. This is the lowest 
> temperature on record this week and here I sit with Ice!!!!!!!!
> Cecil
>
> I won't say I feel your pain Cecil, but maybe a little. After a good 
> workout swinging various hammers removing that haybine axle yesterday 
> I am feeling some muscle pain for sure.

The new axle will go back together easier.

https://mindlessramblings-rlg.blogspot.com/2019/07/roosty6-repairs.html

Ralph in Sask.



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