really enjoyed this column about farming. Enjoyed the humor interwoven into it. It adds a great deal of spice I think to life when we remember our humor in life. I have always been a city girl but did pull weeds from a bean field one day while being in high school and living in nevada, iowa. I got paid the grand sum of a buck an hour and they fed us well. They picked us up and delivered us back home riding in the back of a pickup truck. I swear I dreamed I was pulling weeds from that field all night long. It was probably the best kind of tired I have ever been in my life. L. Quinnett
I became emotional reading this column. It is the first time I have read something you've written since your time writing for the Des Moines Register.
I have always had a few relatives who farmed in Hamilton county. I used to stay with them for a week or two in the Summer and I have the best memories from those times. I love being in the country.
Thank you for reawakening my memories, and for being the guy who understands who farmers are, and can help others understand them.
Chuck, I very much appreciated the part about the poem over the planting. The writing was perfect ("No.") and I could see the scene in my mind's eye. Farming and the the business of agriculture has changed so much over time, but the excitement of riding on a tractor or in a combine never stops. And the sight of the fields this time of year is really mystical.
really enjoyed this column about farming. Enjoyed the humor interwoven into it. It adds a great deal of spice I think to life when we remember our humor in life. I have always been a city girl but did pull weeds from a bean field one day while being in high school and living in nevada, iowa. I got paid the grand sum of a buck an hour and they fed us well. They picked us up and delivered us back home riding in the back of a pickup truck. I swear I dreamed I was pulling weeds from that field all night long. It was probably the best kind of tired I have ever been in my life. L. Quinnett
I became emotional reading this column. It is the first time I have read something you've written since your time writing for the Des Moines Register.
I have always had a few relatives who farmed in Hamilton county. I used to stay with them for a week or two in the Summer and I have the best memories from those times. I love being in the country.
Thank you for reawakening my memories, and for being the guy who understands who farmers are, and can help others understand them.
As a farm boy from northwest Iowa, I could relate to these stories and loved this column. My compliments!
Loved the column!
Chuck, I very much appreciated the part about the poem over the planting. The writing was perfect ("No.") and I could see the scene in my mind's eye. Farming and the the business of agriculture has changed so much over time, but the excitement of riding on a tractor or in a combine never stops. And the sight of the fields this time of year is really mystical.