Before TV there was radio, and it was pretty dang good. Saturday and Sunday night milking chores in our dairy were not so bad because of the great radio lineup: Johnny Dollar, Gunsmoke, Gene Autry, Our Miss Brooks, Corliss Archer, Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Amos 'N Andy, Louisiana Hayride, plus others I'm forgetting. During the week there was Beulah, Fred Allen, George and Gracie, Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid ("Cisco! The sheriff he is getting closer!" "This way, Pancho! Follow!"); Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons, Hartstone of the Death Squad, FBI in Peace and War (featuring the weekly "10 Most Wanted" list, usually headed by elusive bank robber Willie "The Actor" Sutton. Radio was great in a work environment because you didn't have to focus your eyes on anything.
The other things I remember best about rural/farm life were: the annual pond-seignings, when pretty much the entire community would gather at some landowner's pond with seigning nets. A big fishfry ensued. Hog-killing day; here again, a big gathering of family and neighbors to help put away a pen of hogs. And last, sitting out on the front porch in the cool of the evening with parents, relatives or neighbors, shelling peas or beans and listening to the adults talk. There might have even been a churn of hand-cranked ice cream involved.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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