Generations Past
Generations come, and generations go. When each generation passes, with them goes lessons learned, memories of “good old days,” and advice that is most often right. The previous generations are full of useful information that they have picked up by experience. I always enjoyed listening to the stories of these experiences from family and friends.
It was a beautiful fall day, with a crisp breeze floating across the land. I can feel the bumps in the field pass through my small body as we drag the chisel plow behind this old relic of a tractor. Days like this are my favorite. I get home from school just in time to catch a ride with Kevin and Bear in the field. The conversation drifts between many interesting subjects,
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It was an evening in June, the weather was perfect for a night riding four-wheeler. I guided the machine down the old township road that I had reached the end many times before. Once reaching the usual spot I would turn around at, I discovered a hole in the run down fence into the hayfield neighboring the road just wide enough to drive through. I pass the fence with intent to only pass a little farther, but the curiosity peaked once I found a trail through the hayfield. I followed that trail onto another minimum maintenance road, which emerged at Kevin’s farmyard. I had never been in his farmyard before, I had only met him out in the field beside my abode. I pulled into the yard, and spent the evening learning a whole lot more about farming, and life as well. A few weeks after, I had become accustomed to going over to his place and helping him with chores and other odd jobs. I hadn’t ever driven a tractor larger than a John Deere Model B until the day he taught me how to drive his Case 1070. The 1070 was an older tractor, but when it was produced she had considerable horsepower. Our goal was to pull a pair of grain drills home from two miles away. The task of getting to the drills was a simple one, as was hooking up to the drills. I was getting nervous however, at the size of the implement I was to tow home, 28 feet wide from one end to the other. I knew that the road we were to take on the way home