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« on: October 13, 2014, 02:03:47 PM »

Hi Ralph.  I do always enjoy your videos and appreciate the time you put into them.

Here's a quick scene from yesterday... I guess it's all about the bedding.

Dean

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« on: September 29, 2014, 05:21:59 AM »

Ralph, thanks for another excellent video.  Really fun to watch and listen to.

Dean

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« on: September 01, 2014, 07:37:36 PM »

Ralph, that's a great story and great set of photos.  Are those your parents in the older scene?

Dean

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« on: August 22, 2014, 07:08:56 AM »

Good morning, Gene.  Looks like more rain on the way today--going to be rather a wet show this year.  I'd hoped to come out tomorrow but am tied up with another commitment.   Thanks for being one of the movers and shakers, rain or shine!

Ralph, those are some beautiful old cars.  I'd still gravitate toward your old truck, though.  

Dean

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« on: August 06, 2014, 09:02:46 PM »

Ralph, I've never seen a blooming flax field in person... must be downright beautiful.  Thanks for another great photo.

And Gene, wow!  
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« on: July 06, 2014, 08:47:00 PM »

Ralph, glad to hear you've been getting a breather from the heavy rains.

Good weather here this past weekend.  I enjoyed some good tractor time with both tractors:  The 620 to mow and to spread some gravel in a couple of low spots, and the SM to pull a bunch of heavy branches into a big pile so I can come back later with the 620 and mow some more.   They look pretty good next to each other in the barn.

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Dean Vinson
Saint Paris, Ohio

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« on: June 30, 2014, 12:14:36 AM »

Wow, Ralph, that's awful--the video links did work.  Was your road at the second creek crossing okay?  Looked like you could get some bad washout on the downstream side.

Dean

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« on: June 27, 2014, 10:02:53 PM »

Ralph, the hubcaps on that wagon say "Dodge."  

Wow, that's a seriously wet field you were working there.  Four wheel drive looks like it'd be mighty handy for such situations.   We've had a couple of nice days here but the forecast calls for a chance of showers on three of the next four days.  Looks dry after that, though.  There's a young guy who's been waiting to cut and bale my hay for me on halves, and I'm hoping he can get it in without getting rained on and before it all gets beaten down any more by heavy storms.  

I took the Super M for a short drive around the back woods yesterday evening just to see how things look, and I need to get serious about getting a pull-behind brush hog, or perhaps another tractor with three-point and a brush hog.  I've got lots of chores in mind for that area but they all involve being able to move around without needing a machete.  Still, the tractor sounded good and it was fun to amble along for a while.

Dean

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« on: June 25, 2014, 08:48:15 PM »

Hi Gene.   Sure has been a lot of rain showers this month.   My commute to and from work takes me past a lot of farm fields, and just as you said the low spots are drowned out.  Still standing water in a lot of them--seems like it just starts to dry out when another line of thunderstorms comes through.

I celebrated the sunshine this evening by going to pick up this old wagon that I'd bought from a fellow down the road.  Not sure what I'll do with it, other than hayrides, but it looked good and solid.  The previous owner told me his mother used to sit in the back of it as a young girl, separating good seed-corn ears from the rest as her brothers picked and threw the corn into the wagon.  It's been green as long as he can remember but he said when he went to repaint it a while ago he found red under the green--so who knows.  I'll see what I can learn about it as time goes by.  For now I need some remedial studies at backing a four-wheel wagon.  

Dean
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« on: June 06, 2014, 06:23:08 AM »

Gene, looks like you had a beautiful day along I-80.   I love some of the sweeping vistas across the long valleys that the highway parallels, and going through those tunnels always reminds me of being a kid in the back seat on long-ago summer trips with my parents.

Now even my own kids are grown and out of the house, my time with them as "kids" gone and over.  Sometimes I think about the passage of time and the changes that have come, some good but others not.  No parent should ever have to face the changes your family is facing--but you still noticed the beauty along the side of the road.  Lesson for all of us there.

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« on: June 03, 2014, 06:49:48 PM »

Gene, my thoughts are with you and your daughter.  I'm very sorry to hear of her cancer.

Dean

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« on: May 23, 2014, 06:42:35 AM »

Gene, hope you didn't have trouble with the storms on Wednesday.   Torrential rain and a tiny bit of hail came through here, but at first I'd thought it was going to pass me to the north (very dark sky).  Lots of fields in the area still had big lakes of standing water as of Thursday evening, a full day later, which must surely not bode well for those that were just planted.  I'm on my way down to Dayton now to make one last (hopefully, the last) push to get my old house ready to put on the market, and will see how things look.

Dean

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« on: May 06, 2014, 08:10:01 PM »

Hi Ralph.  At first I thought things were pretty high and dry at that auction site, compared to the clip you'd posted the other day, but then I saw that there was still plenty of mud and water.   It'll be a good while before that all greens back up, I'd guess.

Fairly warm here today, close to 70F this afternoon, and even warmer in the forecast for the next two days.  I'm glad to have the help warming up the farmhouse.

Dean

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« on: May 01, 2014, 05:27:22 AM »

Ralph, that 40 sure sounds good.  I've always had the hots for a 30 but that six-cylinder sound is mighty tempting.

Nice song, Gene and Charlie--I knew it once I heard it but hadn't remembered it from the title.

On the way home yesterday evening I caught one of those fine spring moments with bright golden sunshine in front of dark clouds, and pulled off the road by the neighbor's cornfield to take this photo.  Just in time, too, since two minutes later the sun disappeared behind the clouds.

Dean

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« on: April 27, 2014, 10:46:58 AM »

Hi Ralph.  At breakfast this morning in my new place, I was sitting at a table by a window that looks north toward the road.  Nice sunny morning, calm air, cool but warming up quickly.  After a few minutes I heard the smooth hum of some approaching machine traveling along the road, so I watched to see what it was.  Turned out to be a guy on a nice wide-front Cockshutt 40 with a little three-point disk mounted on the rear, apparently on his way to till up a big garden plot or something at the neighbor's place across the road.  Fine looking machine.  I thought maybe you'd driven down for the day...

Dean