Saturday, April 17th, 2021

 TERRY

Really nothing new about Terry.  She has NOT used the wheelchair in the house for many days now.  She has a wellness doctor visit next week and she indicated that she will use the walker, not the wheelchair.  I would say that is a GOOD sign.  As I blog she is actually finished reading the paper and is watching some of her favorite TV which is on Saturday morning!  Well I guess I was wrong as she is watching the funeral of Prince Philip.

Well my life will be kind of same same for the next few weeks as this darn right foot heals.  I was kind of bummed out yesterday as I noticed that the entire foot is a bit swollen.  I am hoping to get that down today.  I continue to ice and take IB AND also stay off of it as much as possible. It may be a go the second week in May to play tennis---maybe!

I don't know how many people look at DAKOTA ABANDONED IMAGES ON Facebook but I spent some time on it this morning and came up with several images that are NOT from our farm BUT very very similar to some things we had way back then.

I am not certain this is the same as our "M" International tractor but it does look like it.  Well ours was a narrow front end but otherwise pretty much the same.

This is pretty much the same as our hay rake.  I am guessing rakes like this were fitted to be pulled by a tractor AFTER they were used as rakes behind horses.  I did take the seat off of ours and Aaron has it in his shop.

Pretty much like the manure spreader we had.  There was a track on the bottom that would move as you drove and that would bring the manure to the back where it would be spread by the tines.

This is pretty close to our truck, Big Red.  It even looks like the front window may be a crank out just as ours was.  

We had one like this on the farm.  Many a knife was sharpened on it as well as hatchets and axes.  I would always sharpen my knife before I practiced throwing it at a board from about 10 feet away.  

As one can tell our farm was NOT meant for a picture perfect farm magazine article!!!  Even in its' day, it was pretty outdated and was a haven for antiques.  There are times I question IF Dad had been a progressive farmer would any of us wanted to stay on the farm???

DAKOTA ATTITUDE

"I've only ever been to one movie in my life: Gone with the Wind.  We didn't do a lot o'that kinda thing, because my husband's father had died when he was 14 years old, so he didn't have a lot of free time or a lot of money to spend.  We were poor.  I did a lot of field work and picking rocks.  We lived on the cream check. ……….We were poor, but we didn't know it……….. Now 91 years old, Eleanora says, "Before my husband died, he said, "I'm so sorry you had to work so hard.  But we did it together!  You know, we always just did it together.

"Dora reflects that a farm is a nice place to raise kids, but it has its drawbacks.  One farm we lived at she recalls, "the water was so terrible.  We had to haul it from the barn.  So I had the little tractor and a stone boat [a type of sled for moving large objects] with a water tank on it.  I'd haul water up to the house, carry it in, and heat it on the stove, and then put lye in it.  When you boil it, the lye brings all the rust up.  We'd skim off the rust, and then we'd do the wash.  We had a washing machine with a gas engine.  It worked, but it was noisy."

That is it for the day.  I suppose I should try to get some work done but maybe I should just keep this right foot elevated and sit around!  The FP is gone so I am good for the day.