The Earth is Enough

[Laminarman]

I figured I'd post a little off topic here. I would assume most of you are outdoors, destructo/building, hunting, fishing, farming and gardening type folks so I was wondering what you like to read. I find myself reading farming and gardening and landscape books since buying a tractor (what the hell happened to me??). I'm an avid outdoorsman. One of my favorite books is The Earth is Enough by Harry Middleton. A great read.

Please tell me what you like to read. Sorry if this post doesn't appeal to some of you.

 

[Poppa]

Oddly enough, since getting serious about buying the tractor, I have spent most of my time reading the websites and flyers of different tractor companies. I also have spent an inordinate amount of time at TBN.

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Mike

 

[Whiskey]

Laminarman:

When I do read it's most likely "how to books" or "repair manuals"...buy the way, the last one, reading repair manuals really freaks the wife out! When she comes in the house and I have the owners manuals for one of the the tractor's or trucks in my lap...she'll say something wrong with the tractor's...no hun...just reading....you get this complete blank stare.

It's kind of fun to mess with a women's mind and see them go blank /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Laminarman]

Whiskey:

I could get in trouble and say that messing with a woman's mind is easy, but I see what you're saying. When I read about making my small organic farm profitable or how to have a successful organic vegetable garden, my wife just gives me a blank, dead stare and I have to check if she's breathing. She does that for one or more reasons:

1. I don't have a farm
2. I don't plan on having a farm
3. The "organic" movement drives me crazy (sorry)
4. I will likely never sell anything to make my nonfarm profitable
5. I eat meat...lots of it after shooting (er..harvesting) it myself
6. Vegetarians drive me crazy (sorry again).

I have one question Whiskey...what kind of whiskey do you like to sip??

 

[Soundguy]

Lets see.. besides the online tractor and related forums, I read prinbt publications about the same.. tractor club newsletters.. and antique traqctor mags.. like antique iron, and vintage power. Also many related mags like Hobby farmer. Tractor manuals and shop guides as well as feed, implement and livestock literature.. whether provided by a manufacture as product info.. or a comercialy available "'how o raise 'x' ".

I also hit a few technical publications about electronics and engineering in general to make my boss happy! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Besides that.. the daily newspaper cover to cover...

'bout all I have time for..

Soundguy

 

[Boondox]

I used to read a lot about small scale farming, but found so many of them applied to a particular situation (lattitude, altitude, soil type, etc) that I gave up and just figured we'd build on our experience. Still use books as primers, but we're actually at the point where we're thinking of writing our own!

To me, few things are as relaxing as sitting outside with my pets or livestock reading woodworking mags or, gasp!, Harry Potter! Gotta keep the books away from the sheep though; they nibble the corners!

Pete

 

[Whiskey]

Laminarman:

So, I see you do know of what I'm talking about....that stare is weird huh?......

Anywho....I don't sip top shelf, never devolped a taste for it...go figure / Jack Daniels or Early Times is what you will most likey find in my "I need to unwind cabinet" or "I'm having a bad day cabinet" or what ever ya call that place where you keep the fire water!

 

[BillyP]

Hey Whiskey. If you're ever close to Tennessee, try your best to go throw Lynchburg TN. It's a little town but the Jack Daniels distillery is there. Very interesting place to tour. The wife and I have toured it twice and I don't even like whiskey /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Burk]

Makers Mark!! During my last job I spent alot of time in Kentucky. A water glass with 6 ice cubes and fill up with Makers Mark will diffently help you unwind. I also enjoy reading, I will check it out

 

[Boondox]

Way back in the early days at the gourmet coffee roaster where I work we tried a whiskey flavored coffee. Turned out to be a bad experiment as the whiskey evaporated off the freshly roasted beans too quickly, but my oh my did the plant smell interesting for a while! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Pete