This will be  kind of  rambly for a while until i see where i want to go with this. we talk about what the”old guys” have said and done, never once realizing that some day we will be the old guys”.

One time I was  in Arizona at a Flea Market sale. An “old guy” came  up tp me and  I said  “How are you today?”, and he said very profoundly and seriously “When I looked out  this morning, I saw  I was  on the  right side of the  grass”. That was a good statement to be making  for an “old  guy”. Now that I m one  of  them, at times I feel the  same way.

 I will tell you about some stories I heard, one time I was talking to neighbor of  mine in Fruitland Idaho. At the time he was around  80 years of  age so he had many experiences happen to him in his life time. This is what he told me he did when he was about 12 to 15 years old.

Back in the old  days the farmers  that  raised  wheat had to hire a custom harvester to come in and thresh the  wheat, this was a big piece of machinery with it’s own steam engine to power the thresher, but  it  was  moved  from farm to farm with a team of  horses. I think eight or  twelve horses, well  Ed was  in charge of  moving the machine and taking care of  the horses. He also had to position the  machine so the chaf would  go where the farmer wanted it to go. You must remember that he  was around 12 to 15  year’s old and  maybe  kind of  cocky. One day at  lunch time (the  farmers  had to feed  the  harvest  crew) the  farmers  wife  served a deep dish cherry pie for desert. Being a young  boy with a stomach that was never full, Ed wanted another piece of cherry  pie. The farmers wife  would  not give it  to him!!! oohoh, Ed decided I will show  her.

That afternoon while threshing  the wheat Ed turned the chute that blows the chaf out of  the  machine right on to the back door of the  house and blew about 6 feet of chaf against  the back door of the house. Needless to say the farmers wife was really upset.

Later on in life he bought that same farm and  raised  his family there. His  granddaughter  went to school with my daughter.