100 years Old! Hope I have my aunts gene!

[SASKFARMER3]

Today we are off to my aunts for her 100th
birthday. I know this isn't marketing but wow 100
seasons on this planet.
What she has witnessed.
She did live at home and garden right up till her
98 th birthday, now in the home.
All family who can attend are comming to visit.
Fun family day, hope I can make it to 100 some
day!
She only farmed for a short time, crap that's the
mystery, not genes.

[bucket]

It really amazing to think what they have witnessed in their lifetime.

From horses to tractors, running water, an electrical grid, automobiles, airlines.

[SASKFARMER3]

A phone to iPad!
Train to plane.

[bucket]

Your aunt watched a railway be built and torn up in her lifetime.

[SASKFARMER3]

Forgot about that. Her husband was a railway
man. He has been gone 30 years or more.

[ALLFARMER]

Congratulations to your aunt, well done.

I learned how to drive on a neighbors W4
International. Yesterday my son was heavy
harrowing with my neighbors 500 quadtrac. But is
autosteer learning how to drive?

[SASKFARMER3]

When you think of all the changes threshing
machine to gps guided combine.

[grefer]

My own dad is 100 in October as well.Still married to his first wife and in a nursing home in Saskatoon.He farmed with me till he was about 88 and stiil is very aware of the seasons and always asks what field i am seeding to what grain etc.He has always looked at least 10 years younger than he was.I think it is in his genes and I don't think I have as many of the long life ones as he is blessed with.

[SASKFARMER3]

Congrats to your dad. Mine still farms with us he's
83.

[ASRG]

Maybe your aunt never stressed out every time it rained, or didn't rain?

[freewheat]

She probably never had as much at stake as
we do now either!

Good for your aunt, SF3. It is always cool
to have someone like that to talk to, I
imagine. I never did, and I sure wish I
did...

[sumdumguy]

At the rate everything is changing, can
you imagine what we have left to see. i
can't live without an Ipad and my
grandchildren at 18 months can turn it on,
find Aps and play games.

used to say, now is the future. Now we
say, what's next.

[tman]

"She probably never had as much at stake as we do now either!"

I think she had more at stake than the vast majority of us now. My dad, my neighbour (from back in MB) and Bud Williams, all approaching that 80 mark, told me how they hunted for deer. Not because they wanted to, but because they needed to for food. My dad told me a few years ago that they hunted rabbits when no deer were around for meat because they had to sell their animals to buy other food. I haven't heard anyone in any recent generation that has to do that..in this part of the world anyways. Our benevolent governements prevent that from happening.

I sometimes wonder how many of us could actually survive the conditions that those people grew up with.

[fjlip]

Stress was about different life issues, but less complicated. They were not as aware of the rest of society and the world. Simple, more focused on staying alive. Very few toys and distractions.

[freewheat]

I guess that is why I said that. I hunt
for meat, I have poultry for food, a
garden we depend on for a lot of food. I
hardly know what an I pad is! lol

I am 36 years old, I do things the old
way. My kids are learning these kinds of
life skills, not playing video games. My
7 year old son has his own chickens, he
buys feed for, and sells the eggs. It is
cute, really.

What I meant about less at stake, is
that she didn't have a million bucks of
someone elses money invested in the
ground to repay at some point. Her big
concern would be making sure the garden
grew, the stock were taken care of etc.
The financial burden was not so great.
As well, even with a crop failure, the
self sustaining nature that farms used
to be about, would allow survival. Now
with no crop, you would be hard pressed
for the cash to buy groceries. But then,
there were pigs, chickens, beef, sheep,
garden o decent size, poultry. So less
at stake in that sense...