My quad thread got me thinking

[Guest]

Pumping water from the old red steel hand pump in the kitchen out of the cistern
Carrying 5 gal pails up the crick bank to water pigs in winter , not much bigger than pails
Trapping ,skinning and stretching huge piles of beaver, muskrat , coyotes and the odd mink
Marvelling at the big check from dominion Soudak in the spring , and buying my first motorbike with proceeds
Too many kids have never had that opportunity and sense of acclomplishment . Still remember how happy I was at about 9 or 10 when I could set the springs on a large beaver connibear by myself
Getting my first wood burning kit for Xmas ,at about 6, what could possibly go wrong?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

?????

It's called humour.

[Sheepwheat]

How many would go back?

I would in a heartbeat. I was born way too late.

[LEP]

Pumping water from the old red steel hand pump in the kitchen out of the cistern
Carrying 5 gal pails up the crick bank to water pigs in winter , not much bigger than pails
Trapping ,skinning and stretching huge piles of beaver, muskrat , coyotes and the odd mink
Marvelling at the big check from dominion Soudak in the spring , and buying my first motorbike with proceeds
Too many kids have never had that opportunity and sense of acclomplishment . Still remember how happy I was at about 9 or 10 when I could set the springs on a large beaver connibear by myself
Getting my first wood burning kit for Xmas ,at about 6, what could possibly go wrong?

Where I farm is the bald ass prairies. Well in 1974, my brother and I decided that we were going to make our fortune trapping muskrat. We bought traps and stretchers from SIR in Winnipeg. Proceeded to set traps on a couple sloughs. Sometimes we caught some. Sometimes the owl pulled back the sack we had covering the trap and ate our prize.

We only had 6 stretchers and we left them on for a week, so every Wednesday night we would skin 6 more. We would freeze them outside if the bounty started to pile up. In the spring we packaged up our furs and mailed them to sell through SIR. It was the year that muskrat prices fell like a rock. What had been $5 or 6 dollars the year before became $1 or 2. Our entire harvest proceeds only paid for the traps and stretchers that we had bought at the start of the season.

Kinda like farming some years.

[blackpowder]

I would not go back except for youth.
Memories are all fond when not weighed with stress.

[LQQKY]

Seems we're older than we thought we were.

[fjlip]

Seems we're older than we thought we were.

Most are highly EXPERIENCED, brimming with knowledge and an appreciation for the positive changes in our once simpler lives. We could/should write a book. I have videoed many hours of our parents on both sides just talking about life from the 30's and on. Saved for grandchildren.

[Blaithin]

Seems we're older than we thought we were.

I’m not.

[Sheepwheat]

Most are highly EXPERIENCED, brimming with knowledge and an appreciation for the positive changes in our once simpler lives. We could/should write a book. I have videoed many hours of our parents on both sides just talking about life from the 30's and on. Saved for grandchildren.

Man that is something I wish I had. I have a pile of silent 8mm films I need to digitize, thanks for the reminder.

Good thinking on making those recordings.

[foragefarmer]

With all the posts reminiscing of the past, we all forgot to mention the pleasure the outhouse provided us.

Was great on those minus 30 degree days!