We discovered that if you hit a really big mud puddle at 45 mph the pickup will die. The key is to not try this on a mud puddle that you don't have enough momentum to get completely across. As in, a small pond.
We also looked for evidence of the forts we built out of willow branches last year.
This is all we found.
Click here for a photo from the same spot taken last year.
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Do you think the scrapper guys would pay me to haul away that dump truck bed in my back yard?
ReplyDeleteThey would pay you for it and would probably not make you haul it away.
DeleteSell it to Budd!
ReplyDeleteNo unless he also contributes that Minneapolis-Moline Disk plow.
DeleteI'm not selling any of my scrap. I figure it is at the point where it will be appreciating in value with each passing year.
ReplyDeletePlus you get to look at it and think, "I'm going to fix that up this winter or next winter."
DeleteThere was an estate sale recently in Taylor County Iowa where the auctioneers pegged off sections of the farm yard and then auctioned off the junk items in each sector.
ReplyDeleteThe farmer had a lot of land and livestock, a real talent for accumulation, but not much time or inclination for putting away or junking things he was done using. All sorts of things from tractors to large and small implements, to equipment and tools, and even furniture.
As no one was living in the house, and his 17 kids apparently all inherited that same trait, it was all still there some years after his death.
The terms of sale were that each purchaser had to have his sector cleared within 48 hours. It's a testament to something very American, or at least very rural American, that people actually bid for that privilege.
I love to walk around places like that. Sort of like our place. Makes you a little claustrophobic after awhile though.
DeleteIs there any Prairie Gold scrap washed up on Croatoan Island?
ReplyDeleteOur grove is full of the bones of the lost colony of 1950's rural enthusiasm.
DeleteAnd that is how it should be. I hate these modern sterile farms.
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