Good morning, everyone else !
BobBry, I see the Golden Feather! Yay, someone finally helped you figure it out how to get it!
Wow! What a discussion last night. No wooses here! I had been a city girl until I was 14 and my parents decided to buy a 40 acre farm. We had to jump right into getting a late 1st cutting of hay in. That is when I started to learn what work was really like! And then I married a farmer.
I had a mom that drilled into my head there was no such word as CAN'T if you put your mind, heart and soul into it.
My Dad drilled into the head it is a money saver (in the long run) if you can do it yourself. And if you want something done right do it yourself.
Life's lessons well learned! With my DH being an over the road driver gone from a week to 3 weeks, I have had to be self sufficient. There are a few times I have had to call him with a um' Houston , we have a problem! And he would walk me through it. But, we didn't have to call a repairman. A lot of things I have figured out on my own and when he gets home, " look what I did". The feeling of accomplishment and the I could pat myself on the back was great. And in the mean time DH knowing I CAN handle things on the home front gives him less to worry about.
We tried to instill the same on our daughters. Our oldest worked on a dairy farm starting at age 15. She had more of an interest in farm shop in school than anything else. She can now cook and can along with tearing a truck engine apart and putting it back together. And how many gals have there own Lincoln welder?
The youngest one was out in the single digit temps last week, bleeding a air lock out of her radiator hoses. I'm glad my DD's can do. We (us ladies) almost have to as we never know what life if going to throw at us.
My 9 year old grandson has a dream of being a dairy farmer, with 100 cows and milk them all by hand
. The idea of milking by hand went away real fast when he went to work with his cousin a couple of times and watched how long it took to milk the herd there, with milkers. But he still wants to be a farmer. He has a brain, that when he grows up he could be an automotive engineer or something. (there was a article of a group of his classmates a couple of weeks ago in the Jackson paper titled "little geniuses'. His pic was on the front page.) But he still wants to be a farmer. Dad is discouraging, Mom is encouraging to go for what ever you want to be.
Fuzzy I have my own tool box also. I sure of a few other here do too. I get very pithed when I have tools are missing.. I also have some of MY own power tools. I know I learned that a few things to have in the tool box or access to was super glue, duct tape bailing wire and binder twine and if some things can't be fixed fixed with that........... Oh and don't forget to keep a few wire coat hangers in the auto. Never know when you can help someone with a lock out or have to wire up part of an exhaust.
Some one should start a new thread..... for gals survival. with how to tips!
(for down the line, i can breed her later)
