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[Gunnells, Brad R]

I had a friend call and ask to use my trailer to haul some furniture for his son going back to college. It's going to be interesting how this all unfolds.

I work in IT at University of Iowa, so for me this work from home has been pretty much business as usual so I'm very lucky in that regard. I work closely with the folks that maintain the classrooms (due to podium technology) and they are equipping far more rooms to keep the class sizes down. In addition some will attend the classroom while others participate online.

But as John says, the dorms and apartment complexes are confined spaces. And lets be honest, when Friday night and the weekend roll around, how many teen and 20-somethings are going to want to social distance? We saw pictures of Spring Break in the south. I presume we're going to see an uptick in our county numbers in early October.

2020 has been a shit-show of a year, plus it's an election year on top of it. I'll be so glad to put this year in the rear view mirror, things have got to get better....right?

Brad
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Sorry to hear about your friend Spencer.

The one thing I haven't really heard much about is happening
now---shipping kids back to college. The way I figure it in 3-4 weeks we
will really know how contagious/risky Covid is. My son has no in person
classes for the fall. Some of his roommates do however. Even with no in
person classes, you can't cram thousands of folks in a dorm
room/apartment and tell them to stay inside until they head home at
Thanksgiving--just not going to happen.

On another note, didn't realize how much of a socially distant kid of
guy I am. Seems I'm pretty much at work or here on the farm. Other than
going to church, I just leave to eat at a restaurant a couple times a
week and go to the parts store and grocery store. I don't patronize
movie theaters, gyms, water parks etc. or even routinely go visit family
and friends.

Anyway, ya'll stay safe, take some basic precautions and keep on using
them rusty tractors.

John Hall


On 8/4/2020 1:14 AM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> It hit home.
>
> I say this with a heavy heart, as many of you attending Portland may have met him. While at Portland I introduced a few of you to a fellow named Raymond Craft.  He was part of the the local home town Pfafftown contingency that attended the Tri-State show. He attended the Portland show along with Bill Gannoway most years and a few others.  We were all good friends and neighbors and were part of the local Rust And Dust club that sponsored the the local tractor show many of you attended.
>
> Raymond died of COVID-19 about 10 days ago. He was one of those “masks are for pussies“ kind of guys. I wonder if his three daughters, three grandkids and wife are thinking the same thing these days.
>
> I saw him and spoke with him(thank God with a mask on) at a funeral about 15 days before he died.  I miss him already as he was a stand-up guy.  He was also your go-to-guy for Farmall “H” tractors.   I’ll bet his estate now owns about 15-20 of them.
>
> I hope all y’all are being careful. Sorry to vent but he leaves a hole in my heart.  I’ll miss seeing him at the local breakfast diner and talking tractors.
>
> Spencer
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