THose were some long odds that we'd ever meet up weren't they? And Winchester Milling and the Hockmans, boy, that wakes up some memories.
Like a lot of the old mills, the polish the polish they had on the floors from just sweeping up the dust. I especially remember bustin' my tailbone when my heels shot out from under me takin' one of their plowhandle dollies full of hog feed down the concrete ramp there on the street side to the dock to put on the truck. Still, coulda been worse if the dolly hadn't had legs and it had come down on me instead of just drivin' me down.
I remember a real lanky guy (I thought he was old -- he mighta been forty at the time) showin' me how to throw a miller's knot onto a burlap sack. Once I learned that, Grandpa would stay down at the office and let me stand at the bottom of that big mixer and sack out his feed while he visited.
And it was always a tossup when we were bringin' in grain to sell or deposit, when we'd pull that old Chevy in, whether we used the lift on the truck, or they'd lift the front wheels with that rig they had, with the three or five hinged boards lifted by an upside down Y of chains on either end. I suppose it mighta been common it its day, but I've never seen anything like that rig before or since.
And out front, I still recall bein' real impresssed with that big wide-bed typewriter they used to type up their ledger sheets, and the lady that did that. Nice lady, can't think of her name. That and Grandpa always gettin' irritated when Bill would call him CheXter. (For those of you listening in, it was a Purina brands mill.)
We're close enough in age, I'd still say that for the years I was in and out of there and the number of times, it wouldn't surprise me to learn we crossed paths back then. Maybe we'll each have to drag a high school yearbook along next time we know we're going to get together, and see if we can match the faces up.
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