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The wife wanted to go to Midland today for a seed exchange. Heritage and heirloom seeds. It was about a 75 mile trip one way,and she didn't have anybody to go along,so I went with her. I had a good hunch going in what kind of people would be there. A bunch of old hippies,naturalists and the hemp wearing crowd. It didn't disappoint in that regard I'll tell you that.
I made about one trip around the tables and that was enough elbows and little packets of seed for me,so I sat down on a bench near the entrance and just watched. I hadn't sat there very long when two older guys came through the door. The older one sat down beside of me to take a load off. I later found out he was 83. He started talking about milking cows,growing tomatoes and what not. I was just glad to have some company. I have to laugh right now because I don't know how I attract these guys,but he told me way more than I wanted to know about alternative farming methods,then politics and finally religion. Not finding fault with him,but there must be something about me that says "Open up and spill your soul".

We stopped in Mt Pleasant for dinner and the wife said "Well,did you learn anything from that old guy?". I said "Ya,I learned when somebody sits down next to you and starts talking,don't sit there for too long.". LOL
 
Depends on the person LOL you got away easy. 30yrs over the road Had the same problem. You should have heard some of the terrible things that have been told me over the years.
 
Every trip I make it seems like one finds me. I've heard stories that still make me chuckle just thinking about them though. It happened one time at a theater in Branson. An old guy who'd been a DJ at a little AM station in the Ozarks. He must have talked for half an hour or more straight. It beat the heck out of staring at the pattern in the carpet,I'll say that much.
 
You ought to be a small town mechanic. I tell my wife all the time this town needs a bar. Some of the things I hear, the teller should be able to blame running on about personal info on being drunk.
 
Ya,I sure get a kick out of some people I meet like that. I've heard stories that I'll never forget,but sometimes I think it'd be best if I'd have to head off to the bathroom before they get as far as they do. LOL
 
LOL!

Happens in elevators when you work at a major medical facility too... Thinking those folks too, were just alone in a strange place and looking for a sympathetic ear.
 
You're too good of a listener. When he didn't run you off with farming, he moved on to something more controversial, politics, then when you were still listening, he got to the ultimate issue, religion! I've had the same thing happen to me. Some people think because you don't argue, speak up, disagree, etc, then you must be waiting for their wisdom. WRONG !
 
If we apply those rules,there wouldn't be any follow ups to any posts on this forum. LOL
 
That's the way most sustainable guys stay in business. I know one to have sold a steer on the way up in an elevator I've also sold a lot of things that way you can never judge a person by there appearance.
 
He wasn't selling anything,but before it was over he did get in to his canvas bag and get out a DVD and give it to me. Something about a 30 day religious conference in South Dakota that he'd been to.
 
I thought maybe you got blown off the road. Just got in from feeding the sheep. Many of the sheep have beautiful blown out fleece. Want to run out and shear them right now. (Not a good idea.) Wind gusts up near 50mph overnight. Still blowing good this afternoon. Kept waiting for the power to go out.
 
I woke up this morning to the clocks blinking. I fired up the computer before daylight then heard a boom and things flashed off and on again. Shut the computer down again. After I got home this afternoon a CP truck drove in. The guy wanted to know how to get out in the pasture east of the house,said he had to replace a fuse. Apparently that was the boom I heard,the fuse blowing on the line running to the south.
Coming back across 20 in to Mt Pleasant there was a bus ahead of me that gave me a few scares. He'd come out from behind the trees,catch a gust and it was be all over the road. I got around it as quick as I could.
 
Is pretty windy out there. I got called at 6 this morning to go cut trees off the roads. I think we cut 15 or 16 off the roads, all Ash. Not near as many as I figured we'd have. Was done by 1 PM. Spent most of the time driving back and forth around the county. Then had to close a road with a suck hole in it from a bad culvert. I was hoping this was going to be a weekend I didn't have to work, but oh well.
 
Hey, I resemble that statement!! Just took me longer to grow my hair out now that I have no one to impress in retirement. At $14.00 a hair cut I?m out.
 
This thing was at the Chippewa Nature Center. The power was out the whole time we were there. They had it in a hallway that had a lot of natural light and some emergency lights. All they had was a small lantern in the bathroom. I'd have liked to have toured the whole place,but they had chairs blocking off the other hallways and signs saying the exhibits were closed due to the power failure.
 
Well Randy did she get any of those "Natural Hemp seeds" That are so popular out in Colorado??? LOL They would be an heirloom seed too. LOL More profit than your beef cows too.
 
RBoots, We had almost 70 degree weather one day and snowing the next. Tried to wait to plow the dirt roads and I made out OK I think running a dozer for 30 years helps. The young kid ended up stuck in the middle of the road. Dragged this IH over the hill from another township and may be my new ride as the truck I have been using needs work. We put the salt spreader on it the other day.
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No. She actually paid for some tomato seeds though. I couldn't figure that one out. She's got somewhere around 300 different varieties already. Oh well,I guess she could be tossing money down a rat hole on something worse than that.
 
Nothing wrong with an IH truck of that era! We have a couple like that, only with 5 yard dump boxes on them, and M11 Cummins instead of the DT466 like a lot of them had. Real good trucks Greg.
 
No. She actually paid for some tomato seeds though. I couldn't figure that one out. She's got somewhere around 300 different varieties already. Oh well,I guess she could be tossing money down a rat hole on something worse than that.
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Yeah, she could start collecting tractors.... :wink:
 
Hemp and that stuff they sell in Colorado and two very different bred plants. Here in Indiana they are about to legalize hemp growing for fiber, that stuff will not give you a buzz just a headache! Indiana is ahead of the times, o wait we still can't by beer on sunday!
 
This one is a M11 with 8LL and locking rear. It sat for a couple years and they weren't sure if it jumped out of gear or something wrong with the rear. I got the wheels off because rear brakes were set up on one side and had to run some battery cables they cut the other ones off. All the control cables were set up I sprayed them with PB Blaster and kept working them and got them all working. I was sure I was cutting them and replacing them! We figure if I end up upside down in a ditch the town wont be out to much money! One of the County truck drivers showed up with a load of salt on a brand new tandem axle Pete. I asked how do you like your truck? He say's its junk they don't even have to work on them.
 
I hope I can be as funny without trying as some of them have been. There was an old guy in Albany Kentucky one time telling me how he came to own a peanut plow that he had sitting there. His wife kept interrupting with her version. It went way off in to how it was on their anniversary,there was a red Mercury Cougar involved,it went on and on. I left there laughing so hard I had tears running down my face.

Same thing happens to my wife. We stopped at the BP just south of Byrdstown Tennessee one evening so she could just run in and get some Rolaids. I waited in the car,thought she'd only be a minute. She was gone for the longest time. I could see her through the door so I knew she was alive. When she came out she was laughing so hard she could hardly walk. She said the woman behind the counter was telling here all about her daughters pet chicken coming up missing. Said she knew that old coon out in the barn got it,but she didn't have the heart to tell her. She was telling that the girl made clothes for it,carried it all over with her and that she named it Chick Chick. Ended with her saying that she wasn't no little girl either,said "Honey,the girl's twelve years old!".
 
.....so , you didn't even stop and " contribute" at the casino?? Ya went right by my place and 3 miles more , the casino (aka, social security deposit LLC " That would have really topped off your trip. LOL
 
Nope,drove right on by in both directions. Stopped at Ponderosa though. The wife said she'd buy dinner. She was a dollar short and all I had was a hundred. Guess who bought?
 
I have a magnetic sticker on the tailgate of my pickup of the Navy jack. While I was in the Walmart parking lot this guy comes up to me and starts talking radical political BS. It took me a while to figure it out, but I assume he confused the Navy jack with the Gaston flag (the emblem adopted by the Tea Party). I was too polite at the time, but I should have told him he sorely needed a history lesson.
 
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