Monday Michael and I were over near Austwell, Texas and I took these photos...
I grew up on a Dairy farm in Michigan and I remember the farm fields there, they were small and compared to the field above, they were very small. Driving a tractor all day to me is very boring I can not even imagine fitting these fields up, it's like they go on for miles! I do know that the tractors now a days have GPS and some of the new ones even have an auto-pilot that is set to the GPS to keep the farrows straight, too cool. Sometimes you gotta love technology!~
I have a fascination for old homes, especially abandoned homes. When this home was new someone was tickled and I can just feel their excitement of moving into a brand new home. I'd love to hear the stories of the home being built and see the photos. Now it's boarded up and all alone, what happened? Where are the people? Could it not have been fixed up? Oh the stories this home could tell....
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John is having skin cancers removed now from driving a tractor in the peanut fields years ago with no shade over it. I love the old house too. You just wonder. It looks as if it wouldn't take too much to make it liveable again.
How cool that tractors have so much technology! Hope you are feeling well now.
Paula I'm bad for not wearing long sleeved shirts while out shredding and I know better too. The old house doesn't look bad and not sure why they don't fix it up or sell it and have it moved.
Gabi the technology for tractors is pretty neat these days! A lot better than when I was growing up. Michael has a stomach bug at the moment and I'm still having issues with my foot/ankle. Next week they do acupuncture on my ankle as they think I have pinched nerves, sigh! Today was not a good day. I did buy a wetsuit so I could swim in the pool, yeah! Love the water and didn't want to give it up for the winter season.
Tractors are amazing these days and so are the prices! I guess if you don't have fields as big as the one in your photo, you couldn't possibly justify the expense. When I was young, I worked a little on my uncles farms. We thought we were in tall cotton if we had a Farmall B or even an old John Deere with the flywheel on the side...you started the tractor by giving that wheel a spin. My, how things have changed!
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