Pah! You were spoiled. I had no school because the nearest igloo with learned people in it was about 10* south. We worked for 26 hours a day and had to get up before we went to bed. I finally learned to read and write at age 29 after walking for three months straight south to a school. I carried two children with me too.
You BET it's safer!!
....X2!
We had 26 hour days here too!
You've done well by them, and they're certainly better adults for it.....I was. I carried the boy around as a newborn while I was working in the fields; combining...you name it. He'd move his little foot and switch the powershift on when I was cultivating!
I always said that if I had boys they better know their domestics so they can look after themselves. Always said if I had girls they better know how to change the oil in their vehicle and they better dang well know their tools. And what a Robertson is.
It's our job to prepare them for life, isn't it?
The square head screw driver. I don't think you guys use or have them down there? I could be wrong about that.
You were too poor for your own pack of dogs & a sled, I assume?
Of course. Only rich VWNers have them.
Is THAT why I don't have any? Well I'll be....
Oh, yeah, we use them. In fact, I used one yesterday to tighten a bolt on one of my chainsaws. I have several sizes; just never knew the proper name for them....always call them "square bits", as opposed to star, torx, philips, or straight slot.
You must have hit it big in the Klondike, since you have your own sled & team now.
