Re: Dad died next to his Farmall M

Posted by Bob on January 10, 2004 at 22:25:45 from (66.163.134.177):

In Reply to: Dad died next to his Farmall M posted by zooeyhall on January 10, 2004 at 21:22:58:

That's a tearjerker. I wish a few certain people in my family were not too good to read it, or to appreciate the farm that only means something to them when it's income is called upon to buy the useless trinkets they think make their lives complete, and that feeling of gratitude passes quickly.

My farm was homesteaded by my Grandfather and is a North Dakota Centennial Farm. It makes me sad I am the last of his descendants that cling to the land, and love the life where the seasons are measured by the farm work at hand! There are no livestock on the farm since my Dad could no longer care for them 20 or 25 years ago. I miss their company when I'm at the farm, but at this time I am not able to be there enough to care for them. My Dad was kinduva nuisance in his later years, as worsening senility made him more child-like, and even then he tidied up around the farmstead, picking up any stray can, or bit of wind-blown paper that happened to be around the yard. The gnarled, wrinkled hands that wrestled draft horses in his younger years, and early tractors with no power steering, and later, tractors with air conditioned cabs, could not be still, even if it meant moving needed parts in the shop, with no rhyme or reason, some to places I still have not stumbled upon, and he's been off the farm for over 8 years, and dead for nearly 4! Then there was the crooked index finger, stepped on by a sow in the 50's, while he was helping her give birth! No workman's comp, or doctor bills for that accident! His hearing was very poor for many years, damaged, for the most part in the 50's, operating a Massey 55 diesel with a straight pipe. Man, the stories the guys of that era could tell, if we had only listened more, and recorded more on video tape for our kids to get a glimpse of Grandpa in action! Think of growing up with no electric light or power on the farm, and going to what we have now, in one generation! For us who are middle aged, I wonder what good changes we will see in our remaining years, to offset the decline of the family farm, the family unit itself, and Small Town America in general!

Oh, well, enough rambling!

Geez, Dad, I miss ya!

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