Where are the posters?

[SkinBasket]

I'm a farmer now. Summer means getting maybe 1/5 of what you need to get done, done. If you're lucky. I still got a shitload of fence to run, hay to haul, trees to cut, spring projects to finish. And then there's deer season less than two weeks away with trails to bushhog, stands to rehab, plots to manage. The ash bores killed a few hundred trees on our property, so there's always a couple new trees down or waiting to fall on you and kill you. And then we still have to find time to drink and get high and watch porn and fish. So you all are about the first to go. Especially since Partial tried ruining FYI. Someone needs to shoot that kid. Seriously.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Ahh, you're a real farmer in the same sense that I'm a real Jedi warrior.



Even if your tales of rugged individualism were true, you show a reckless and cold-hearted disregard for the online people's paradise that Big Daddy Madtown has graciously created here for us. Appalling.

You're dead to me.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I coincidentally was just looking at some interesting photos, and there's Skinbasket with the missus



1940s America in color

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/08/22/seldom-seen-photos-show-what-america-looked-like-in-the-1940s-in-color/

[wootah]

How I imagine life @ the Skinbasket family farm...

[SkinBasket]

How I imagine life @ the Skinbasket family farm...

It ain't too far off. My kids just made 50 cents each spreading winter wheat seed by hand yesterday.

And Harlan, it's not rugged individualism, it's a pain in the ass. The silver lining, however, is that we'll have our own Angus beef next spring and we haven't bought eggs in years. The golden lining is that, for the first time ever, we're going to qualify for some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars of government cash we've had confiscated and stuffed into the pot our entire life. I'll finally get a taste, however small, of how your side gets to live. Of course, I'll be paying for a barn cistern and fence instead of cell phones, wide screen tvs, and used Cadillacs, so it won't be quite the same.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I worry about the home schooling and inevitable inbreeding.

[Patler]

It ain't too far off. My kids just made 50 cents each spreading winter wheat seed by hand yesterday.

And Harlan, it's not rugged individualism, it's a pain in the ass. The silver lining, however, is that we'll have our own Angus beef next spring and we haven't bought eggs in years. The golden lining is that, for the first time ever, we're going to qualify for some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars of government cash we've had confiscated and stuffed into the pot our entire life. I'll finally get a taste, however small, of how your side gets to live. Of course, I'll be paying for a barn cistern and fence instead of cell phones, wide screen tvs, and used Cadillacs, so it won't be quite the same.

I grew up in a large family of real farmers.
Damn hobby farmers give us a bad name.

[Cheesehead Craig]

I grew up in a large family of real farmers.
Damn hobby farmers give us a bad name.

That's right. Real farmer families like Patler had a front row seat to home schooling and inbreeding. That's what made him the man he is today.

[red]

So skin is growing weed now?

[SkinBasket]

I grew up in a large family of real farmers.
Damn hobby farmers give us a bad name.

I'm not cut out for real farming. I've seen what that's like, and it's not pretty. True story: My aunt and uncle had a large dairy/corn farm. It smelled bad, and they were always dirty. Then my cousin tried to marry one of his cousins. Stereotypes are always funny because they're mostly true. Also, I still don't like hanging out at the feedmill longer than I have to, which is totally a prerequisite to be a real farmer.

I was raised on a horse farm, and hated it, so it's kind of unlikely I would have returned to any kind of animal husbandry and the shit it involves, but my wife wants cows... so cows. I did already say no to horses, ponies, mini donkeys, pigs, goats and maybe even alpacas, so I had to give in to something. I decided these would have the best benefit.

[SkinBasket]

So skin is growing weed now?

No, but I know people that do. That's the important part. They fly a lot of helicopters over us out here, for "training" that has nothing to do with the guy across the street just getting out of prison after 12 years, for, in part, growing a few hundred plants. Now that I gave the little greenhouse we had behind the house to a neighbor, they fly a little further.

[Bretsky]

Skin is farming strippers in another state .......lol
P.S. Send Bretsky adrdress

[HowardRoark]

I'm a farmer now. Summer means getting maybe 1/5 of what you need to get done, done. If you're lucky. I still got a shitload of fence to run, hay to haul, trees to cut, spring projects to finish. And then there's deer season less than two weeks away with trails to bushhog, stands to rehab, plots to manage. The ash bores killed a few hundred trees on our property, so there's always a couple new trees down or waiting to fall on you and kill you. And then we still have to find time to drink and get high and watch porn and fish. So you all are about the first to go. Especially since Partial tried ruining FYI. Someone needs to shoot that kid. Seriously.

I would bet my last share of Apple that Partial and Tex are the reasons Rand doesn't post here anymore.

[HowardRoark]

It ain't too far off. My kids just made 50 cents each spreading winter wheat seed by hand yesterday.

And Harlan, it's not rugged individualism, it's a pain in the ass. The silver lining, however, is that we'll have our own Angus beef next spring and we haven't bought eggs in years. The golden lining is that, for the first time ever, we're going to qualify for some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars of government cash we've had confiscated and stuffed into the pot our entire life. I'll finally get a taste, however small, of how your side gets to live. Of course, I'll be paying for a barn cistern and fence instead of cell phones, wide screen tvs, and used Cadillacs, so it won't be quite the same.

I spent the last couple days driving halfway across the country and the thought came to me that I need to come up with ideas to get more government cash in my pocket. I always have been against it, but it's time to get some of it. It can't be that difficult.......even for an average white guy like me.

Maybe that would be a good thread to start. A place to discuss how to get free cash.

[wootah]

Maybe that would be a good thread to start. A place to discuss how to get free cash.

Do you own a webcam, Howard?