Posted by Dmack on October 20, 2011 at 16:27:54 from (70.130.153.110):
In Reply to: Things remembered posted by Popinjohn on October 19, 2011 at 15:29:38:
Poppin John, I loved your comments as I still live in N.E.Ark. I too was raised in the house you described and we made a living on 120 acres with a 446 Massey Harris and a WD-45 Allis Chalmers. I can remember quit well coming home from school and going to the feild and working till dark. In the fall we had split term school to allow the farm kids the time off for picking cotton. Later on in the fall after picking over we would pull bolls, my dad would always tell us our christmas money was still in the feild. I would pull bolls till my hands would bleed, and i always hated to go to the feild early after a big frost. But all in all this was a much happier time as we were all in the same boat and nobody knew they were poor. We still have the farm and I farmed it for 29 years until health issues pervented me from continuing on. Now the man goes in and does what used to take us weeks to do in a day or two. I long for those days of working in the dirt with those old tractors and God willing, I hope to do it again. One old Arkansas boy to another. Take care and God bless.
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