She sure makes me catch my second wind
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Topic: She sure makes me catch my second wind
Posted By: thendrix
Subject: She sure makes me catch my second wind
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 2:59pm
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Sent my grandmother a text this morning looking for a number of a fella she's mentioned that cuts grass for her. With this new farm it's just a little than one man can handle. That's something that I absolutely hate to say but it is. Got the number and then got a "is there anything I can help with?". Now she gets her feelings hurt if I say no so I said you can come after a while and help us get up feed pans if you want. We have to pick up the feed pans after the first week. Now I'm BEAT. I told her give me a while to get a little rest and we'll get them up. Well... When I finished my work I started towards the house and, low and behold, there's her truck. She said "you ready?" I said "well I thought I might rest a minute". And then my 82 year old grandmother said "sooner we start sooner we finish. Quit being a wuss and let's go" and she proceeded to work circles around me. Man if I make 82 I hope I'm like her. Tougher than boot leather and tender enough to care for a newborn. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
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Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 3:25pm
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the best kind of grandma! ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 3:28pm
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Hope I am HALF as spry as mine was in her 80s when get there!!! |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 3:38pm
I hope I get there.  ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 4:19pm
Those that were around during the depression or soon after are not WUSSES. Even many younger than me can't seem to have any staying power. At 60+ I can still out work some X-Marines half my age stacking hay in the barn  ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 4:31pm
I'm sorry to be a little "dense", but what are the feed pans and what are they feeding  ?
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 4:38pm
Been working Part Time helping a Cousin at a older farm trying Hemp, Set fences, set Planting bed rows where the 20somethings working with us dried up by noon, tender little suffering kids. |
PaulB wrote:Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 4:47pm
LMAO !! Puts me in mind of haying season when the farmer would hire the "BIG/TOUGH" high school football players to mow the hay
 . What a bunch of pu%&ys LOL !!! |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 5:35pm
In the chicken houses. We have pans with shorter sides so the baby chicks can reach the feed. We take them up between 8 and 10 days ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 5:39pm
Thanks for the info, my first thought was feeding kennel pups  .
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 7:49pm
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Hope I am still going at that age. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 8:42pm
| i'm like Chas...i hope i make it that far! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 3:16pm
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Yeah, I use to say the same thing, "if I get to live to be like that" and I'm almost there. And I can still lose any younguns who try to keep up with me. But I know I'm getting slower and things weigh more today than they did yesterday. It's all about staying healthy and in shape. you GOTTA stay ACTIVE. Try to tell that to a 20 something kid....couch potatoes...... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |