just a tish NE of central ND | WHERE should I START??>
>Marriage was a big one, parking the plow, wasting my money on a drill filler instead of using a bucket, refusing to raise pigs and chickens. Buy the first 4-wheel drive pickup on the farm 30 years ago. Shave with a disposable razor instead of electric. Buy a wire feed welder. GPS systems Haul critters to a butcher shop instead of home slaughtering. Park the windrower and cut straight. Hire out the silage chopping for our few acres. Grow sunflowers. use fertilizers. Ditch the apron chain baler for a JD belt baler. got a 9-foot sickle mower to replace the 7-foot bar mower....(over 40 years ago.) Got wider sprayers.
There is more. You name it, it was always wrong...
Did my dad love me? YUP! HE was a product of the great depression, he got married later in life too, and went through Grandpa losing a farm he inherited (dad was 16) trying to buy the quarter next door and that hurt never went away in my dad. He just didn't know any different other than to labor harder and save every dime and penny and rusty piece of wire and old bolts and did not ever change.
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my dad. He made a farm of his own LATE in life without inheriting a thing from anyone ever and a life that wouldn't have existed if it weren't for his hard work and frugalness.
Edited by School Of Hard Knock 11/19/2024 21:56
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Things you did that your dad ridiculed/made fun of that worked out really well for you in the end?
