My dad never had a garden when I was growing up, so I never learned much about gardening. Grand-dad had a large garden, and it seemed that he spent hours and hours every evening, from the time he closed the shop at 6 pm until dark, out working in the garden. That led me to believe that having a garden was probably the most work a person could ever take on, because it seemed like the work was never done.
Years later, I realized that the reason Dad never had a garden was because he felt like the garden got all of his dad's attention. So he compensated when my brother and sister and I grew up by spending as much family time as we could cram in to a day. [This was also likely influenced by the fact that his first two daughters, twins, died...one at birth, and the other 3 months later in an auto accident.] As kids, we were in 4-H, Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts, saddle club, and about every wholesome activity we could find.
As I grew older, and Grand-dad continued to spend every waking hour he was away from the shop working in the garden, I came to realize that the primary reason was NOT that the garden REQUIRED that much work. Grandma was such a wretched person that he simply preferred to spend as much time as possible apart from her...and he didn't want to deal with the stigma that his generation assigned to divorce. It was easier for him to do something in the garden and stay away from the house than to deal with the drama.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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