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fred goodrich

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Had one guy call my bluff!
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I worked for Dealers, back in the day, We were sent out to pick up Cows, Horses, Goats,Sheep, Ducks.etc. I guess that the BIG Corporates have no space for them, nowadays.
 
We have a few alpaca farmers around here. Their wool makes a very comfortable and warm sock. I have a couple of pairs of them. I would say they are about the same durability-wise, as sheep wool also. The interest in alpaca's seems to be hanging on longer than the fallow deer craze of 20 years ago. At least the State of NY hasn't figured out a way to destroy the industry, like they did with the red deer/fallow deer industry............................................YET................................
 
Friend who used to raise em butchered them for meat. Alpaca is native fare for Peruvians.Peruvian Restaurant in Denver bought a lot of Aplaca meat.Little steaks,sausage,burger?..I have sampled it,good stuff.However,it takes a lot of Alpacas to make much meat.They also have the softest wool.
 
I have a client who pays for her taxes with bread. Really great bread. It's a simple tax return and I really like her bread. Years ago I inherited a client from an old friend who had been forced to retire for health reasons. He sent me a bunch of work but made me promise I had to take the "cookie lady" as part of the deal. Another simple return, but she was in her 90's and did not drive. So I had to drive 20 miles one way to do the return and her fee was a plate of really good cookies. The first time I did it she handed me a $20 bill. I said "what is this?" She refused to give me cookies saying it was not right and that she could not expect me.....etc. I really wanted those cookies. <sigh>
 
A sort of local car dealer in Barberton Ohio says they will to. I guess they even took a Parrot in on a car before.
 
My grandpa sold cars for a Pontiac dealer during the great depression trying to save his farm. He took in a team of mules on trade one time. The business owner wasn't very happy and grandpa became the owner of the mules. My dad worked that team for several years on the farm.
 
During the early 30's grandpa moved a guy from MO. to Colorado and then got paid 200 head of feeder pigs. He told the guy no thanks and came home sans pigs. He said they cost more than they were worth to haul home. gm
 
My FIL was a music professor at a small university. When my wife was little he gave piano and organ lessons on the side for extra money. One of his clients, the child of a local farmer, traded fresh chickens for lessons.
 
We had some dealers do that and finaly they put up no pets or livestock and a few other items.
 
We had a local ford car dealer who owned a salavge yard and two farms and indeed took anything on trade. I recall as a kid he came over to see my dad and said Well its time for a new truck.My dad's comment was well the truck is only 6 months old.The next week a new truck showed up and my older brother plowed one of his fields.The old dealer knew how to make a deal so both sides were happy.
 
More chicken trading - growing up in Botswana

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2314553.Twenty_Chickens_for_a_Saddle
 
I went to see a man about a little MC crawler I was selling.He had always used horses for firewood,but was thinking about upgrading.He asked if i was married,and how old I was.I told him 22 and single.When his daughter brought his lunch out to the barn,he grabbed her and stood her in front of me.He told me she was just right for me.We had kind of a laugh about it,but my friend knew the man well and thought he might have been partly serious.She was 18 and where they came from she was kind of late in getting married.i had let him use the crawler for a week,to see if it fit his needs,and my friend asked him if I would get the same courtesy.I would not have said that myself,and I expected my friend to get punched.They all just laughed.That was in 1978,and when I see her one of us reminds each other what might have been.
 
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