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Yes you have known good and bad times. I suppose some luckier have just known good times although they do not know it. Take care, I know it is a trying time.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 16, 2020 at 12:07 PM
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Do You miss it?
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 16, 2020 at 11:03 AM
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Re: Re: No, it was southeast Oregon, just above the California border.
We used to go to the Tulelake Butte Valley Fair in California. All of that area was farmland.
posted by
Sherri_G
on June 16, 2020 at 10:07 AM
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Kabu....Did you ever go to New Zealand?
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 16, 2020 at 10:02 AM
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Re: Rain is a really big deal for farmers. Your dad had his eye on the prize.
Was it on the Eastern Half of Oregon, isn't that where most of the farming is?
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 16, 2020 at 10:00 AM
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Rain is a really big deal for farmers. Your dad had his eye on the prize.
Crops are everything to a farmer. I grew up in Delaware and Oregon around farmland. The Amish in Delaware depended heavily on their yearly crops. I now live around Pennsylvania farmers, so I appreciate the bounty of crops that I purchase at the farm stands every summer. As for your heritage, I imagine that you have a lovely Australian accent. I have never been to Australia, but it is portrayed as a beautiful land. You have led an adventuresome life. Thank you for sharing a piece of history.
posted by
Sherri_G
on June 16, 2020 at 8:37 AM
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Thanks for that. I'm sure there are lots of stories still waiting to be remembered and told.
posted by
Annicita
on June 16, 2020 at 6:23 AM
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It strikes me about how your father wanted rain, while obviously, those of us in the car wash industry want little of it. One man's rain is another man's treasure.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 16, 2020 at 5:23 AM
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Tough
Spike Milligan once said that he asked a German general who were the toughest troops in WW2 and said the Australians. Ordinary people could not survive in those conditions.
posted by
slam
on June 16, 2020 at 2:52 AM
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Kabu
Oh how I love Australia and its people, especially the cricketers. I was once in a team that was offered to play in Adelaide, but couldn't join because I fell a victim to an accident. Now, I repent.
posted by
anib
on June 16, 2020 at 1:29 AM
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TAPS is right - we saw some of Australia in your Tom Ugly book, but it would be interesting for a collection of short stories, about how it was to farm then down under?
posted by
adnohr
on June 15, 2020 at 6:47 PM
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post. Australia is still a country with with I'm not that familiar and hearing you tell us about it and the life of farming there is really interesting. And it can be a difficult life so one must be strong, yet flexible. Thank you, dear lady.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on June 15, 2020 at 6:04 PM
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I always think of Australia - the farm country you describe, especially -
as being very much like the old west in the USA - kind of outside civilization with people who are used to hard work and minding their own business, not much law, nor many "civilized" cities and schools, etc. People having to make do or do without.
posted by
Pat_B
on June 15, 2020 at 5:15 PM
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That is all very interesting. I could just see it all while I was reading. If you expounded on each thing you talk about in this post, you could write a whole interesting book.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 15, 2020 at 4:37 PM
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