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Neighbors thinning a bit!

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Topic: Neighbors thinning a bit!

Posted By: DMiller
Subject: Neighbors thinning a bit!
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2026 at 8:35am

Neighbor here, raised here, still in home raised in and his son just down a ways in the old home he was raised in after Dad married. The Dad is divorced and remarried, he and new wife own the farm and a place at the Owensville lake estates. So what could be better would one think!! Well the Second Wife has kids in Cape Area, she went and bought a small acreage THERE, the two of them travel there Some and he has sold Some of the land here surrounding his Son and DIL to a Neighbor family, the kids get to remain in that home for now. He had stroke(s) a few years back, may end up they moving entirely to Cape area.

Age not our friend, several neighbors in failing health or advanced age, some families been here since Hermann Inception and dying out. Seriously expect to attend several Close Neighbor funerals in short term time.

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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2026 at 8:23pm

Sadly that is the same situation here also. I have been to numerous funerals over the past year of elderly friends and neighbors who have passed away.

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Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.

Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2026 at 9:44am

A lot of farmers from 60 to 80 years old. Only a few young ones taking over farms and they just farm the land and rent out the buildings or sell lots of the corners of fields. Lots of city people coming out for there little piece of the country and then they want to change it. Complain about snow removable so they can drive above the speed limit to get to their jobs in town. And heaven forbid we slow them up with a tractor going down the road. There was a school teacher complaining at a town meeting one time when someone was asking for a rezoning for an age business and he was complaining how he got behind slow traffic and would get late to work.

Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2026 at 9:52am

There was a school teacher complaining at a town meeting one time when someone was asking for a rezoning for an age business and he was complaining how he got behind slow traffic and would get late to work.

Had one here made that comment, consensus was they leave EARLIER than Right On Time for work and would be all the better. Complaint then was not paid for such time and was asked if got paid for driving with slow traffic! Bottled that one up who then filed resignation, moved into close by larger burg, found that she complains of COL and requires more adequate raises that do not come.

Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2026 at 4:16pm

We get our morning tv news from Milwaukee and they will show the interstate all backed up in red somedays or even shut down by a crash. How do these people not end up a half hour to an hour late for work. And it is ok or not. But have to spend 5 minutes following a tractor and it's the end of the world.

Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2026 at 8:07pm

Exactly Dan

Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2026 at 7:57pm

I bought these Acres in 1968 and built the house in 1970 , was part of old farm that was divided up .
Seems most neighbors were all lifelong members of the community , friends and relatives for years so i was the new comer to area .
So now I still answer when someone says you must be one of the old families here in Afton , No I still see myself as someone who has lived here for a while but many others are 3 generation around here .
Then friend who was from old neighborhood in Oakdale MN just sold her Grandparents home on the lake and mentioned it , well that was across the street from where my folks built their house in 1939 after buying property in 1933 and having a cabin on it for summer living . So i knew her grandparents and great grandparents from back then
I still have my wifes folks home over there also and son is living there now so OLD NEIGHBORHOOD is still part of life

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Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel.

Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2026 at 6:35am

Coke, basically the same situation I have. I moved to Jackson County a little over fifty years ago but I still have the home place in Wilkes County where my family goes back for more than five generations. A lot of my relatives still live there and we are still close so I still consider it home.

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Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.