Posted by Patrick Potter on November 16, 2013 at 05:19:44 from (68.116.159.234):
In Reply to: Been a long day posted by Banditfarmer on November 15, 2013 at 20:11:28:
Ok Bandit, (after I wrote this I saw the length I apologize for the length of it) it's gonna be tough but here goes, my mom and dad adopted me and my 3 sisters when I was 6, and from that time forward my dad and I did pretty much everything together, we worked in the garden, with a grub hoe and that grub hoe was also really good for grading a road out in the drive way for the trucks and cars and toy equipment (didn't have electronic games back in the 60's), as I got older we'd go hunting fishing build things and my sister that was a year under me was usually right there with us, we raised cattle worked on our own vehicles (still hate taking my vehicles to a mechanic)& equipment, started driving at 11, he even took a friend and I snipe hunting (still haven't found those darn things) we haled hay (you can put a LOT of hay on a Chevy luv or S10 pickup) loaded that stuff by hand also, cut our on bull calves the old fashion way, raised & grew our own food for the most part and I mean most, gotta tell this story, one of the bull calves that we cut I was holding it as my dad was GETTING ready to cut him thought I had him so I relaxed a little BAD IDEA he let off a kick just as my dad got ready with the knife and that calve kicked and I wasn't ready and nailed my dad in the forehead dead center, he never said a word (not verbally anyway), he helped me get my first job at a dairy (loved that job) after I got out of the house we worked together in commercial construction, and still worked together at the house. On 12/4/1988 I was 28 my dad was killed on the job when a truck load of pipe he was helping load at a power treatment plant they were finishing up at a dam gave way while he was on top of it, after that I tried working the place but with out him it just wasn't the same, let's just say that life was pure hell for all of us especially my mom they'd been married 28+ years for a long time after that and everything went to pot, but thank God my mom and dad kept us in church and close to the Lord and we pulled out of it we have a really close family and we have a saying "one for all and all for one" my mom grew up with that saying, I still have the old ford 850 tractor that my dad got when I was 18 and we spent a lot of time together with that tractor working on it and working it and just a hint, DO NOT attempt to pull a track loader (about the size of a D4) with a ford 850 tractor it want do it trust me tried it the loader will sit there and laugh as you and tractor take a look at the sky and I'm talking about the emblem in front looking at the sky had to purchase a new seat cushion and clothes after that incident my butt still aint the same, going to stop here could sit and write a book, but yawl probably don't have time to seat and read it, but Bandit cherish every moment and talk to him every day, because what I'm able to do to this day is because of my dad and what he taught me. Sorry about the length and this is not meant has a lecture so please don't take it that way.
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