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They were funny, but plucking them was not fun. We had a chicken hook for catching them, a long rod with a loop at the end that would let you catch their legs.
Life on the farm
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The golf course:
At the edge of the orchard, we planted an old bike flag, and we would practice pitching golf balls. We would hit from the back yard, this side of the "telephone" pole. When i was young, the open area on this side of the house was our garden. Dad moved the garden and made it much larger in the early 70s.
Dad always had lots of apple, pear, and a couple peach trees. There is a grape arbor and pear tree between the pole and the flag, but most of the orchard is left of this picture.
At the edge of the orchard, we planted an old bike flag, and we would practice pitching golf balls. We would hit from the back yard, this side of the "telephone" pole. When i was young, the open area on this side of the house was our garden. Dad moved the garden and made it much larger in the early 70s.
Dad always had lots of apple, pear, and a couple peach trees. There is a grape arbor and pear tree between the pole and the flag, but most of the orchard is left of this picture.
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Great thread
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Reading and enjoying this thread. Must have missed it initially somehow.
There is a special connection to where you grew up. My son is the sixth generation to live on whats left of the original farm.
Like you I was also born the day after my mothers birthday. Sometimes it seems that memories are the best part of life since they live on long after the one who created it is gone.
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Not sure what will happen to the farm once Dad passes. I would love to retire and live there, but my wife not keen of the idea. I told her i could do a major redo of the house. Too remote for her.
Farm is in a trust.
As i look back and read over my posts, i realize i left a lot of detail out.
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Its tough to see what you grew up with go away.
You will always find that you forgot details. I sometimes think I should write down what I can remember and while my great aunt is still alive to tell me so it wont be forgotten.
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Im at least writing down as much genealogy as I can. Fortunate my mom took pictures and wrote on some who the people were. I remember my grandmother talking about the depression.
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Nice thread interesting read. Just read the whole thing, kind of a cold day out been puttering inside.
Grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York, lots of similar things, we had a few more tractors, went form 40 milk cows to 100 in 1966.
That was quite the year milking in just half the old barn while the new 100 x 100 free stall with a double 6 herringbone parlor as built, helping on that as well as
all the normal field work.
Remember my mother talking about the power lines coming in for rural electricity, that was a game changer, many places had old Delco power plants before that.
Both my parents went to one room school houses then into town for high school.
My brother is still on the farm my grandfather started, switched over to beef several years ago from the dairy. I spend quite a bit of time over there doing tractor work, especially since I retired.
Grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York, lots of similar things, we had a few more tractors, went form 40 milk cows to 100 in 1966.
That was quite the year milking in just half the old barn while the new 100 x 100 free stall with a double 6 herringbone parlor as built, helping on that as well as
all the normal field work.
Remember my mother talking about the power lines coming in for rural electricity, that was a game changer, many places had old Delco power plants before that.
Both my parents went to one room school houses then into town for high school.
My brother is still on the farm my grandfather started, switched over to beef several years ago from the dairy. I spend quite a bit of time over there doing tractor work, especially since I retired.
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Thanks for the comments..
We had one milk cow "brownie" on the farm. I couldn't stand store milk then, but now it's the opposite.
Dad still has hereford cattle. I call them all cows, and dad still gets mad at me for calling a bull a cow.
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A glimpse of buckeye putting in hay.
