COUNTRYMAN
Chillin' with the herd
yours truly far left in the red. 3 of 5 brothers....a man couldnt ask for better friends in life
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Farmer Kitty
True BYH Addict
It's great you and your brothers are such good friends.
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COUNTRYMAN
Chillin' with the herd
we all grew up in a diffrent world, big family, we didnt have nothin and didnt want for nothin but each other
we never had a phone,
tv was turned on for 30 minutes every night to watch the news
there were no computers
no cell phones
no ipods.
no cd's
and on and on .....i never saw a McDonalds untill i was 19 yrs old
@ our house fast food came cold from the fridge and you ate it fast on the way out the door to get chores done
i wouldnt change one thing about the way we grew up, it made us who we are today.
we never had a phone,
tv was turned on for 30 minutes every night to watch the news
there were no computers
no cell phones
no ipods.
no cd's
and on and on .....i never saw a McDonalds untill i was 19 yrs old
@ our house fast food came cold from the fridge and you ate it fast on the way out the door to get chores done
i wouldnt change one thing about the way we grew up, it made us who we are today.
Farmer Kitty
True BYH Addict
I would say this is true for the majority of those here. The world is a different place today than it was 20+ years ago.COUNTRYMAN said:
There were fast food joints in town when I grewup and we actually ate at them a couple times a year. It was a big treat!
jhm47
True BYH Addict
Then---Saw my first B & W TV set at a store in Fargo, ND. Thought it had little people in it somehow. Saw my first Mc Donalds when I went to Minneapolis to ship out for basic training. Had a combine with nearly 20 feet of electrical wires in it. Saw the ocean at Fort Ord, CA. Saw my first gay person while on weekend pass at San Francisco. Couldn't believe that one!
Now---My granddaughter (age 5) has her own credit card with a $10 limit /day. The grandkids have every imaginable toy in the world. I have a Garmin GPS that speaks to me and tells me that she is "recalculating" my route about every 5 minutes. Neighbor has a combine with nearly 200 MILES of electrical wire in it. Don't need to steer it either.
What will the next 20 years bring??? I'll still be here raising my cattle and birds.
Now---My granddaughter (age 5) has her own credit card with a $10 limit /day. The grandkids have every imaginable toy in the world. I have a Garmin GPS that speaks to me and tells me that she is "recalculating" my route about every 5 minutes. Neighbor has a combine with nearly 200 MILES of electrical wire in it. Don't need to steer it either.
What will the next 20 years bring??? I'll still be here raising my cattle and birds.
m.holloway
Loving the herd life
ok you guys!!!! You hit home with these stories!!!!!But sad to say I still live in that world. Of course, my hubby is a comp nut, what a macall-it thing. I told him when he dies all his remotes goes with him!!!! I grew up very simple. My mom built our play house we had, she built our play kitchen, we had to use our mind to think that the burner was on making coffee, (which was black mud)haha and our food in our play pots where grass and leaves and flowers.But I loved my child hood. We grew up on a broken shoe string. But we had a home and lots of love and memories!!!! not the stuff on our shelfes, and tv games stacked to the ceiling with cd,dvd, and anything that was shiney. I'm still doing friday pot luck dinners, sat. we play poker with just chips, And sunday dinners. I try to cook from scractes, we have a garden, chickens for eggs and I make alot of one pot meals. Fast food I drive by them just as fast as they serve.(haha)Well that's my 2 cents. And that a fact!!
Beekissed
Herd Master
Same here, but I grew up totally off grid...no electricity, no running water, no TV, no anything but hard work, good food, clean air and healthy livin'! We milked our cows by hand, drank the raw milk like it was the living waters! Everything hand made, everything took some effort and we were in great shape!
And I'm only 42, so this wasn't too many years ago! Still a tough ol' country gal, myself! Still make my own bread, do my own chorin', work hard every day, burn wood, no TV......but I am now living "soft"....public utilities and an electric well pump! Soft living fer sure!
And I'm only 42, so this wasn't too many years ago! Still a tough ol' country gal, myself! Still make my own bread, do my own chorin', work hard every day, burn wood, no TV......but I am now living "soft"....public utilities and an electric well pump! Soft living fer sure!
m.holloway
Loving the herd life
Well, Beekissed you'll be ready if the world keeps going the way it is. Our work at the shop has slowed down so much, That I'm thinking of filling the gas cans for the genarator. If our coustemer don't pay their inoices, the elec here won't be paid.
