Thread: My mother, the time machine---

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I grew up on a farm, too. I remember a couple really bad blizzards when I was a kid, seems like after the wind blew about 5 minutes we lost electricity and phone service... We had a generator for the barn that ran off the PTO on the tractor so we could always get cows milked... I remember one year in particular, probably about '59 when we no longer scooped snow to get to the barn door,,,,we went throught the snow tunnel!!!!! Best part was not having to go to school on snow days, sometimes a week at a time!!!! Country kids got to stay home, town kids had to go!!!!

Long before the time of snowmobiles, but we did have horses... Used to be a blast to saddle up a horse, get a rope and tow people on a sled behind the horse!!!! and even sometimes behind the pickup when Dad was gone and one of my older brothers would pull us around in the pickup with about 6 of us piled into an old car hood!!!!!!

PS---our first phone was a crank phone... Our ring was 2 longs and a short!!!! No such thing as a private line, all the women in the area would set a time, then they'd all get on their phones and yak!!!!!! Also remember our first TV, we got it when I was 6.... We even got 3 channels on a good day, but just 2 most of the time...... and now I complain when my 'puter slows down and there's nothing worth watching on the 60+ channels on the TV!!!!!