elect the trespassers

[cowman]

Emerald: I will admit the times were different and I'm probably really out of touch with how it is today. I really don't have a solution.
Horse: It might have been better land but at the time I never owned it! I had to get out and hustle to make a buck! I worked in the oil patch, I worked in a packing house, I bought and sold cattle! I probably only farmed full time for about 7 years after the old man died! Maybe I was a dumbie or something but I just liked having money too much to stay down on the farm for very long! Well that, and the fact I'm not really suited to working alone very much! I'm a "people person"!

[cowman]

cowman, many like you have worked off the farm to get a good grub stake so they can farm. In the early years I guess they worked in sawmills and lumber camps, and then the oilpatch which has provided thousands of jobs for rural and urban folks alike. I too am out of touch with the business of raising kids today. My kids will tell you that I was mean and nasty because they were expected to do 'chores' both when we lived in town, and then on the farm. Cleaning the barns built character I always tell them....although they seem to argue that point with some enthusiasm !!