My daughter liked ‘calm down’ and ‘settle down’. She used it as meme though.
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I am sorry, but I still believe that something needs to be tangible to be worth something. Maybe we will go back to that one day. Course I also keep hoping that manners and politeness will come back too. I just hope I live long enough to see all this metaverse and alternate reality crap come crashing down.
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I am of the same thought, insofar as my direct investments.
Despite seeing myself as openminded and somewhat contemporary there are aspects that has me seeing myself developing into an anachronism. But hey maybe that’s just nature.
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Or maybe I’m growing? 
Blessed are those who live a quiet life in an apparent stillness safe from or oblivious to the life threatening conditions that surrounds us. Pascal said something to the effect that most all humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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Of course I spend my days buying out of an empty wagon so what do I know.
My husband does hundreds of thousands of dollars of cattle deals every year with just his word and his handshake with our buyer/broker. We are old fashioned. We still believe that land is worth something. It is until you are trying to borrow against your equity in it.
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I count myself as very fortunate having spent the first 19 years of life as a farm boy. Farm life may not be better than other experiences but I can’t imagine having a better start for myself.
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Like I told someone when they asked how I spent hours along in a tractor with no cab and nothing to occupy my mind- you have to be good with your mind or you will go crazy. You can outrun a lot of things in this world, but you can’t outrun your mind.
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Everything in life comes down to manure- getting rid of it, spreading it, managing it. Until you manage your manure, you will never know your potential.
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Do you feel Minnesota winters are excessively long? The consequences of this poll will be important so please vote carefully.
- Yes
- Absolutely
- Positively
- Definitely
0 voters
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I think any winter is too long.
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I used to say that till I spent a lifetime in Arizona during my 4 years there.
We decided to move to Oregon when an aerosol can exploded in the back of the pickup 🛻
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Now that is just too, too funny. 
(Yep I did read it)
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When you get the four wheeler stuck in the swamp all the way up to the fenders and the husband has to pull you out with the tractor and he doesn’t fuss at you- that’s true love.
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I was 14-16 yo cultivating corn or soybeans and making a turn in the end rows. The one time I misjudged my turn and started too late when the end of the cultivator hooked the fence. (It was minor by the way. I was able to just unhook it.)
But as luck would have it at that exact time my father pulled up on the gravel road to check on me. I climbed off the tractor to a litany of curse words and flailing arms and lecture of how I had over 100 acres to turn in and how I decided to turn on top of a fence. Dad’s logic was impeccable - drunk or sober. Lolololl
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We have three named gate holes on one of the farms- The Davis Gate hole, The Hoge Gate hole, and Kelly’s Gate hole. They are all named for those of us who have taken out the gate posts with equipment. When we had the old style bar hay rakes, I got them (we used two at one time) tangled up in high tensile wire. Spent all afternoon trying to cut that out.
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Lol!
I was taking the tractor with a rotary hoe on the three point hitch down the gravel road to another field. (Yeah we rotary hoe’d beans for a few years until dad decided it was a waste of money.)
Anyway there was a narrow one laned high sided metal bridge (maybe 50-60 foot long) I had to pass through. I’ve gone through it dozens of times so it hadn’t just popped up like mushroom.
I was in road gear at top speed in overdrive (so maybe 18-19 mpg but that’s fast on that tractor) approaching the bridge when I suddenly remembered I was pulling the rotary hoe.
With no time to do anything I pulled back the throttle, put it down on the low side (stupid move #2) and aimed for the middle. By the grace of God I made it through. There couldn’t be more than 1 foot clearance on both ends of the hoe.
I don’t know how many lives I burnt through on the farm as a kid.
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I’ve heard enough about the horrors of Depp/Heard’s private lives. Can we please just get to their advice on politics and how we all should live our life? 
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Funny, I’ve had zero problems ignoring that entire case.
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Somehow I heard about her pooping on his side of the bed. 
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