Posted by Mike (WA) on December 23, 2014 at 09:14:25 from (69.10.196.35):
In Reply to: OT - Kinda Sad Day posted by Mac AR on December 22, 2014 at 18:15:06:
Ours went "down the road" in the summer of '61, when I was 12. I did all the milking that summer, as dad had a full time job. Our cattle guy could haul 5 at a time, so every Friday (before the Friday auction), he showed up and I'd have 5 ready to go. Saved the best milkers for last (along with Ione, my favorite). Great big black Holstein named Dynamite kicked me in the teeth one morning, so she made the next load for her trouble.
Sad time around there- Dad kind of went into a funk, but I started getting some beef cattle and got active in FFA, so had about 10 head by the time I graduated, and him helping me was good therapy for him, I think.
Ended well, though- we had about 30 acres of rocky, poor ground- he split it into 5 acre tracts and built houses on them and sold them on contract, then sold the main farm in 2 parcels. Within 10 years, he had retired at age 52.
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