Re: I bleed IH Red.

Posted by Peabody on February 19, 2003 at 17:59:05 from (64.12.97.13):

In Reply to: I bleed IH Red. posted by Frozen Iron on February 19, 2003 at 14:35:35:

My grandfather was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1887. His family moved to Colorado Springs around 1902 when his dad was diagnosed with TB, and the cure at the time was mountain air. Grandfather graduated from college there, and chased his dream near Miami, Florida, hoping to ride the heels of Henry Flagler and make his fortune. There he met the daughter of one of Flagler's employees (Will Brown, mayor of Titusville and on the first Board of Alders of Miami. Her name was Louise.), married her, and returned to a purchased 400 acre farm near Montgomery in 1917. They reared four children. The baby, my dad, went to Korea before the conflict (He was too young to go off to WWII). He returned home, graduated from Huntingdon College, and became a turkey farmer. Within two years, he had lost everything. My grandfather gave him 50 acres to mortgage to settle his debts. He went to work for a bank, but he maintained his homestead on the 50 acres, part of my granddad's original farm. My uncle inherited the big farm and was a dairy farmer, made a respectable living, and eventually retired (he turned 80 yesterday). From my earliest memories, we always had a vegetable garden, and my stomping grounds were my uncle's farm. I am 43 years old, and, while the farm is long gone and I am an office boy in the construction business, I still know how to milk a cow (we kids had to chip in when the power went out; cows gotta be milked twice a day, you know, power or no power), bale & load hay and disk a field (God, I miss that smell!) And I plant a vegetable garden every year, just like my folks did, even though I don't have to. I like to see things grow and appreciate the inputs involved, unlike most of my city-fied friends. Yes, I have iron in my blood. Farmall, Case, Allis Chalmers, John Deere, all were present on the farm. But my love for Red is the Farmall Super C I am restoring which belonged to my late dad, one I rode countless hours just cutting the grass. I love it. And I wouldn't trade the farm memories, experiences and hard lessons learned for the world. I am a better man for it. I wish everyone could be as fortunate as I for those life experiences. Thank you, all you old (& young) farmers out there, who made, and still make, our nation a great place to live and grow up in.

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