Thanks for the story Keg River. You forgot to mention how good the lunches the womenfolk made for the field tasted.
Another great memory from the grain fields when the combines started appearing.....
Even though I was only 8 or so after harvest time Dad would give me a pitch fork and a box of eddy matches. I would have to wait until dark on a calm night and then I would get the go ahead to start my duty. I would fill the pitchfork with straw, light it on fire and start running around dropping fire onto the harvested swaths of straw. I remember having a whole 80 acres or on fire at one time. Good memories.
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This country was started by voyagers whose young lives were swept away by the currents of the rivers for ten cents a day... just for the vanity of the European's beaver hats. ~ Red Bullets
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It is when you walk alone in nature that you discover your strengths and weaknesses. ~ Red Bullets
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