roxynoodle
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I should tell you, fellas, a woman has been reading your thread. Many of us already know tractors are fun and some of us have found this forum
Wife drove tractor this afternoon.
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Ooops,...Roxynoodle is probably a better operator than I am. My wife is pretty good too. That's why I keep adding stuff to my tractor. Lots of extra valves, levers and gages to confuse her. My wife is a better shot with a handgun than I am too....that sucks.
My wife is a better shot with a handgun than I am too....that sucks.
Ductape
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I think you'd better keep one eye on your tractor, one eye on your wife, and one eye on your handgun !
Ductape
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touche' !!
roxynoodle
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Or at least not all at once as that would require 3 eyes.
ovrszd
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I was just talking to my wife again on the phone yesterday. She's talking about getting ready for snow pushing this winter and asking where she might be able to find a snow blade for the Kubota. She's already got to mow with it before I did. Now she's wanting to push snow before I get to. Oh God, please let me get home before we get our first snow!!!!
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Guys, I've really enjoyed this thread. I've laughed and shared some of the stories (tall tales?) with my wife, who is finally beginning to "get it" about why I keep reading this forum. Some of you guys missed your calling...
That said, a friend of mine recently lost his wife just as he was preparing to enter retirement. Another friend recently lost her husband at about the same age. Both appeared to be in good health, and were struck down by very fast-acting cancers. It just hit me as I was reading these posts - what if that hapenned to me? Would my wife be able to maintain the property by herself? It's as much her dream as it is mine, and I want her to be able to do anything I could do.
Because of that, we're going to learn all this stuff together. If that means I lose some seat time, so be it. It will also color my decisions about getting I-Match, and selecting implements that might be a bit more "user friendly" than others, etc.
Sorry if this puts a damper on what has been a fun discussion, but I wondered if there might not be others like me out there, who are suddenly very aware of our own mortality...?
By the way, my wife (who has always appeared to hate guns, and wouldn't let me keep one in the house while the kids were home) recently announced that for her birthday, she wants to take the "concealed carry" classes (to learn to safely shoot a handgun - not to carry one all the time), and that she wants a shotgun (and to learn to shoot it) for the "ranch"... You could have knocked me over with a feather!
That said, a friend of mine recently lost his wife just as he was preparing to enter retirement. Another friend recently lost her husband at about the same age. Both appeared to be in good health, and were struck down by very fast-acting cancers. It just hit me as I was reading these posts - what if that hapenned to me? Would my wife be able to maintain the property by herself? It's as much her dream as it is mine, and I want her to be able to do anything I could do.
Because of that, we're going to learn all this stuff together. If that means I lose some seat time, so be it. It will also color my decisions about getting I-Match, and selecting implements that might be a bit more "user friendly" than others, etc.
Sorry if this puts a damper on what has been a fun discussion, but I wondered if there might not be others like me out there, who are suddenly very aware of our own mortality...?
By the way, my wife (who has always appeared to hate guns, and wouldn't let me keep one in the house while the kids were home) recently announced that for her birthday, she wants to take the "concealed carry" classes (to learn to safely shoot a handgun - not to carry one all the time), and that she wants a shotgun (and to learn to shoot it) for the "ranch"... You could have knocked me over with a feather!
liddingt
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I think it is alright to let the wife drive the tractor. I remenber telling my
wife "I paid $10,000 for the hat and they gave me the tractor", she put the
hat on and ask me to show her how to drive it. And like Koitijohn I wish she was here to drive the new one.
I also think it it alright to let the wife drive the tractor, but don't ever let
the dog on with you. That is another story
wife "I paid $10,000 for the hat and they gave me the tractor", she put the
hat on and ask me to show her how to drive it. And like Koitijohn I wish she was here to drive the new one.
I also think it it alright to let the wife drive the tractor, but don't ever let
the dog on with you. That is another story
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I agree. I joke about my wife driving our tractors but I think it's great that she does. We both did the mid-life divorce thing and were alone for several years. We've only been together four years. Her experiences have always been that her husband took care of everything outside. She's always lived in town and this is the first time she's had more than a small front lawn to maintain. Since we've been together I have deployed to Iraq twice. She has grown tremendously. I'll never forget the first time I turned her loose on our JD455. I swear a toddler could have outran her. She just crept across the yard looking around the whole time like she was gonna run over something. Over the past three summers she has grown and now can mow our 3 acres of lawn as quickly as I can. She even tackles the steep stuff with the JD although she won't try that with the Kubota yet. She told me the other day that it would be my job to take care of the mowing when I got back home. I suspected she was saying that so I wouldn't feel like she had taken over the jobs that I enjoy. I told her we would continue to share that. I could tell by the tone in her voice that she was pleased.
I've suffered thru a divorce which is a loss of a mate. I've also suffered thru the death of a teenage Son. I've been separated from my family several times for deployments. So I can relate to those on here that have lost a mate due to death. Unfortunately, there's not much of an alternative. So I agree that we should encourage our mates to share in our joys and to learn what's involved in keeping everything going in case it's us that cash in first. But the tradeoff is that we may have to quietly sneak out of bed on a weekend morning and get on the tractor before she gets up and beats us to it!!!
I've suffered thru a divorce which is a loss of a mate. I've also suffered thru the death of a teenage Son. I've been separated from my family several times for deployments. So I can relate to those on here that have lost a mate due to death. Unfortunately, there's not much of an alternative. So I agree that we should encourage our mates to share in our joys and to learn what's involved in keeping everything going in case it's us that cash in first. But the tradeoff is that we may have to quietly sneak out of bed on a weekend morning and get on the tractor before she gets up and beats us to it!!!
