Comments on: Going To The Farm When I Was Little https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:20:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Björn Rudberg (brudberg) https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1054 Sun, 27 Jun 2021 14:33:30 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1054 I remember one week at the farm as well… but I was never allowed to drive the tractor… it was all about picking potatoes.

]]> By: Ron Rowland https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1053 Sat, 26 Jun 2021 15:27:12 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1053 In reply to Phillip A Woodruff.

Thanks Phil. It was actually a Massey Ferguson tractor, and I spent many an hour mowing weeds with the brush-hog attached. He raised hogs, so I also spent a lot of time with those.

]]> By: Phillip A Woodruff https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1052 Sat, 26 Jun 2021 14:49:37 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1052 ron, i don’t know ever where to start, my family was originally from nebraska, both my grandfathers farmed, and i spent many summers of my youth on the farming. i’d follow my grampa woodruff all day long, mending fence, feeding calves, riding horses (sounds like your grandfather had an old red case tractor, so did mine) oh, and every night, grandma’s brownies and homemade ice cream. to this day every times i hear mourning doves i’m transported back to that farm.

sorry, a well of emotion just swept over me. very well written my friend.

]]> By: Ron Rowland https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1050 Sat, 26 Jun 2021 10:38:43 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1050 In reply to Lucy.

Thanks. I think there are a few humans that will also let you get close enough to pet if you give them cookies.

]]> By: Lucy https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1048 Sat, 26 Jun 2021 03:50:40 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1048 Aww, this is so sweet and beautiful. Sounds like such great memories on the farm and so much you must have experienced and learned. <3 Very beautifully and evocatively written!

I’ve never been to a farm, but I have some friends that work a bit in the farm life and it seems like such hard work, but as well enjoyable in the experiences and memories cherished through the outside and with the animals. My best friend has a pig, for instance, that would only allow pets on the head if you fed her cookies lol.

]]> By: anotherkatewilson https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1047 Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:42:00 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1047 I spent school holidays on my grandparents’ farm. 🙂 Thanks for the reminder <3 and mothballs – yeah, my grandma used them too and I hated them.

]]> By: merrildsmith https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1045 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:22:05 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1045 In reply to Ron Rowland.

You’re welcome.

]]> By: Ingrid https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1044 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:18:55 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1044 In reply to Ron Rowland.

That’s been the death of many a town, I’m sure…

]]> By: Ron Rowland https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1043 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:17:55 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1043 Yes, the farm lives on in our memories.

]]> By: Ron Rowland https://ronrowland.com/going-to-the-farm-when-i-was-little/#comment-1042 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:17:08 +0000 https://ronrowland.com/?p=1145#comment-1042 In reply to Ingrid.

Thanks Ingrid. The town was once bustling and the town square has a lovely court house. However, most of the shops and stores around the square are now closed. I believe the downfall began when they routed the highway around town and built the big Walmart “out by the highway”.

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