Tag: tractor
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Teenage farm hands (and younger)
My parents practiced hands-off parenting. While my mother helped my dad with the evening milking on the family dairy farm, she would look across the yard into the mirror on the wall behind the piano in the living room. She readily saw the image of any child sitting at the old upright piano. She always…
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Grandpa’s toy tractor
My husband did not want to leave his toy tractor behind. He wanted to take it with us when we visited the grandchildren. It really should be MY tractor. I found the bright green plastic tractor and wagon sitting in front of the “For Pet’s Sake” thrift store when my brother and sister visited back…