Re: Amazing Pictures
Posted: March 30 12, 8:03 pm
Space shuttle launch at night
This won't be amazing to anyone but me, but this is the last time my Grandfather and I worked together. This is from 2008 so ignore the date stamp. In 2008 the Mississippi River flooded and we fought the river with everything we had, luckily unlike 1993 the levee held. The fall was so wet we were finishing up things in the snow two days before Christmas. Despite all of that, it's only one of several reasons we call 2008 the year from hell.
My uncle right in the middle of the spring flood fight was diagnosed with Leukemia, an aggressive form being stubborn he actually put off treatment for two weeks to help us move everything off the farm and to help plant the crop that we were sure we would lose to the river. Finally after the second week we nearly had to drag him to the Barnes Hospital where he would spend the next couple weeks getting treatment. Happily he is doing great to this day.
In July, early in the morning we were getting ready to head out and harvest wheat when my Dad suddenly started clutching his chest. He was having a heart attack. He has never been the same since.
Finally that fall when this picture was taken, my Grandfather had a stroke, he has never walked since, can't use his left arm, and obviously has never driven a tractor since. This happened the day after this picture was taken. He didn't show up at the farm and we knew something was wrong. We called the house and no answer so we went there to find him laying on the floor in front of his recliner.
I'm just so thankful that I had the opportunity to work with him, that's special to me and so is this picture. Oddly enough I remember this day looking over at him as we worked the same field and thinking how cool it was to be working the ground with him that his Father purchased when he arrived from Germany over 100 years ago.
Sorry for the long story, but without it this is just a crappy picture of a tractor and a couple implements.
