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It's in my Blood
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Posted by WannaBeCountry on November 17, 2006 at 09:48:11 from (64.83.204.203):
I brought home my first tractor last night! Big deal some may say, but can you close your eyes and remember the feeling you had when you first got the engine to light off on your very own first tractor. It took me 45 years to finally find out what it feels like, and I can honestly say the last time I felt so much pride and joy was when my children were born.
Even better is how this tractor came to me, and why I feel so honored and excited to have it! I'm a city kid, but I married a small town girl from a family of 12. Her Dad worked full time for 34 years in a boat factory and also raised crops, milk cows, and hogs. Shortly before he retired, and after he sold (gave away) the farm to one of his Son's, he bought the Farmall Super-M to push snow and work the dirt on a small patch of land he kept next to the old farm. Twenty years later (now) he is in the late stages of Alzheimers and has been placed in a nursing home. His wife could not bear to be home alone without the man she's spent 65 years with, so she put their place up for sale and is moving into an apartment at the nursing home. She has been giving almost everything away to their children and grandkids. It turns out none of the boy's wanted or had room for his tractor so she asked me if I would take it! I ALWAYS WANTED A TRACTOR but for whatever reasons couldn't justify buying one. I will end up paying a fair price to them for this machine, but for now it's mine! I helped hauled the tractor home for my Father-In-Law when he bought it and remember the look in his eye's when he "fired it up" and drove it on the trailer. That had to be how I looked last night! My blood is red and so is my tractor... YeeHaw!
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