Posted by IA Leo on August 19, 2012 at 14:11:26 from (67.224.18.215):
1. Reaching into a clay drain tile on the creek bank only to have a small blue crawdad latch onto my finger. 2. Marveling at the line with dots either side in the muddy bottom of a flooded cow path viewed through clear water of a broken drainage tile. A turtle passed that way. 3. Carrying the twine pail for my father as he lassoed a corn shock he had just set up. 4. Watching my father take the horse blanket off the ’29 Chevy sitting in the driveway out by the road, 1/4 mile from the house. Snow hip deep to me. 5. Mother washing my hair with the “soft” rain water from the pitcher pump connected to the cistern outside the house. 6. Climbing the hay loft ladder with a Coleman gas lantern hissing and hot by letting it hang in the crook of my elbow and to hang it on a special nail so that I could see to drag loose hay down to the chute. Family fortunes at risk by a 12 year old boy: barn, livestock, lively hood. Thought nothing of it, saved dad some time. 7. Reaching down into the very cold water of the milk can cooling tank to retrieve a bottle of pop. Only available on special events. 8. Nearly winding (damaging the lungs) of a team of horses pulling a 3 section wooden drag by not resting them at the field ends. Had been driving a tractor for several years and father wanted me to “learn something about working with horses” when all he really wanted was for them to get some spring exercise so they would be more docile while on the two row corn planter. I walked in the soft spring plowing behind the drag feeling grumpy and cared little for the horses. Felt bad when I saw what I had nearly done to those greys. Wasn’t their fault. 9. Catching and carrying two pairs of white leghorns flapping and squawking to the chicken house on the night of the “big getting ready for winter”. White blobs up in the apple trees. 10. Five years old, hip deep in big white chickens with my little pail of grain. Witnessed chicken judgement if a chicken couldn’t hold it’s head up properly, getting pecked to death by the other “normal” chickens. Missed the significance of the rooster crowing while sitting on the handle of an axe stuck in a stump in the middle of the chicken yard.
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