Boondox
Elite Member
- Joined
- Apr 6, 2000
- Messages
- 3,873
- Location
- Craftsbury Common, Vermont
- Tractor
- Deere 4044R cab, Kubota KX-121-3S
I've tried using logic to convince the Wife that a new tractor is a necessity. She can't understand. All logic aside, it comes down to feelings.
Have you ever watched a little boy play with his Tonka toys endlessly, happily? Making those little diesel noises as he moves things around? That's how I feel on my tractor. It might be mindlessly repetitive. The use of fuel may sometimes skirt the edge of logic. There might at times even be easier ways of doing some of the things I do on the Kubota. But after all I've done and seen in my life, after the various forms of confinement I've experienced (submarines, then college), after the often senseless losses I've seen...puttering in the open air surrounded by forest and dogs and fresh air -- with occasional visits from the Wife -- brings me a pure and simple form of joy.
So how do I tell her it's about joy?
Pete
Yearning for a bigger tractor!
Have you ever watched a little boy play with his Tonka toys endlessly, happily? Making those little diesel noises as he moves things around? That's how I feel on my tractor. It might be mindlessly repetitive. The use of fuel may sometimes skirt the edge of logic. There might at times even be easier ways of doing some of the things I do on the Kubota. But after all I've done and seen in my life, after the various forms of confinement I've experienced (submarines, then college), after the often senseless losses I've seen...puttering in the open air surrounded by forest and dogs and fresh air -- with occasional visits from the Wife -- brings me a pure and simple form of joy.
So how do I tell her it's about joy?
Pete
Yearning for a bigger tractor!