Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR

Posted by John B. on December 31, 2014 at 22:14:43 from (50.106.227.130):

In Reply to: HAPPY NEW YEAR posted by Samtn1 on December 31, 2014 at 20:35:14:

Happy New Year to you Samtn1,

I grew up on a small grain farm and orchard, vegetable farm. It was Dad's home place. Tonight will be him and mom's first night in Assisted Living. We moved a lot of their belongings today.

Anyway back to memories, yes we walked outside around the buildings talking about years past. There were four in my family and the youngest is now 49. We grew up with IH tractors, A,H,M, 560 Diesel, 460 gas (which was a piece of you know what) no comparison to the 560 Diesel. I mowed the orchards for years with the Farmall A that my Grandfather had bought new in 1940. It was a hand crank start. We sooned learned to park it on a hill between uses to pop start it. I remember the first time my dad let me use the 560 to disk wheat ground. I was watching the rear tire as it started to slip more and more on the ground. I then looked back and say a big pile of debris in front of the disk. Not sure how that happened. I lifted the disk up and drove over the mound and was on my way. Working the fields and spending time with our dad and my older brother in those fields were some of my best memories. I loved the farming operation even though we didn't have newer machinery. I'll be 55 on Jan 9th.
Here's some pictures I took thru the years. Some may be repeats since I've posted some of these thru time to time.
First picture is of my mom, younger sister and our dad in the fruit shed where we sold vegetables.
Second pic was taken in 1988 from the seat of the 560.
3rd pic was dad using the "H" and old steel wheel McCormick Drill sewing wheat in 1988.
Picture #4 shows all the peaches that were raised in 1951. My dad as a single man back on the left then his dad stooped over inspecting the peaches.
Picture #5 Three of the pickup trucks they used to haul the peaches and other vegetables in to St. Louis Comission Row.
Pic #6 Some more peaches of the crop of 1951.
Pic #7 & 8 are some of the hired hand which inluded friend, neighbors and relatives that would come during the summer to help. Some were my dad's classmates he went all 12 yrs to school with. Pic #8 shows my dad on the far right probably when he was 19-22 yrs of age.
Pic #9 is all of us in 2006 with mom and dad. That's me in the back row 3rd from the left with my daughter next to me in the blue, my wife in front of me and my son sitting on the ground on the far left. I thought it would be nice to identify myself because so many times on YT here it's nice to put a face with a name... Happy New Year Everyone.

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