Wednesday, June 14, 2023

If you've ever had to spend a summer doing this, you knew what work was about and you grew up in a different world, a world kids today have NO understanding of. (Not to mention the excitement of finding the occasional snake in a bale.) I grew up working in chicken houses, milking cows, cropping tobacco, baling and stacking hay, throwing watermelons, growing corn, and going to school in between. I appreciated the way I was raised because it prepared me for life. It was a rough life but we laughed and partied and enjoyed life more than any of these kids today. We didn't get put on drugs to cure depression, we were too active to have time to be depressed. And between all that there were girls, cars, motorcycles, family reunions, swimming at the springs, and all the things that make life worth living. It was a good time.



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