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No, no I couldn't of.
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So, your good Grandfather farmed dirt, I see. A true salt of the earth kind of guy.
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He was more of a hobby dirt farmer, raising a little hay for his horses. His day job was in the oil patch.
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My grandpa had a lot of alfalfa and a lot of dirt. And lots and lots of milk.
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Big Boobs Grandma, huh? As my dad likes to say, "A milky a day keeps the doctor away."
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Grandpa had 400 cows.
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Yowza, dairy farming is back breaking work today. I can't imagine what it was like back when you didn't just hook them up to the vacuums.
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08-05-2008, 04:29 AM | #29 |
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I knew I liked you for some reason, il Pad. My Gramps had 300 head. He died from accidentally stabbing himself in the thigh and being too stubborn to go to the doc. A blood clot got loose and killed him.
Grandma died at 3 AM one day, on her way to milk the cows for the 1,678,584th time in her life. Although I do have to admit, I thank God daily that my Dad moved away from that place. I spent summers helping Granny milk the cows, and hated every minute of it. Mostly because I always got stuck shoveling the cow crap out of the holding pen twice a day. |
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My parents would send me to work on the farm for disciplinary reasons as a teenager. Getting up at 3:00 AM was bad enough, but Grandpa's way of waking me up was just awful - the house was heated by a coal furnace and he'd just bang on the pipes with a wrench. One thing it did do was make me appreciate just what my Grandpa did for a living. That is hard work - and he did it until he was too old to work, which was about 88 years of age. I never knew until he passed away that he had an MBA, but chose to do that kind of work. Remembering all this reminds me of just how much I suck.
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