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thendrix 
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 Topic: She sure makes me catch my second wind
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.
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LouSWPA
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 3:25pm |
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the best kind of grandma!
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I am still confident of this;
I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
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be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27
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DMiller
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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!!!
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chaskaduo
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 3:38pm |
I hope I get there. 
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PaulB
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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 
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Real pullers don't have speed limits.
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FREEDGUY
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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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DMiller
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 4:38pm |
 PaulB wrote:
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 |
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.
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 4:47pm |
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thendrix
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 5:35pm |
FREEDGUY wrote:
I'm sorry to be a little "dense", but what are the feed pans and what are they feeding ? |
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
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 5:39pm |
Thanks for the info, my first thought was feeding kennel pups  .
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 7:49pm |
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Hope I am still going at that age.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 8:42pm |
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i'm like Chas...i hope i make it that far!
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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......
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. What a bunch of pu%&ys LOL !!!