susan bundlie

> <<But we're desert rats and have never known anyone who owned a
> combine!>>

Well, you know someone who knows someone!

My grandma used to fix huge dinner/lunches for The Men at harvest time.
They'd go into the fields outside of town and use threshers and
combines (are they the same thing?), then come in and consume mass
quantities. My grandparents didn't even farm, so I don't know why she
did the cooking. Grandpa really wanted to be a farmer, but Grandma said
she'd have a nervous breakdown if she had to be stuck out in the
country; instead, he became a rural mail-carrier (drove a team of
horses at first, then a Harley later) and made their entire backyard
into a garden--so big I could get lost in it when I was little.

My sister used to be married to a hog farmer in southwestern MN. One
day she was visiting us in "The Cities" and got a call from him saying
her favorite black lab had been caught in the combine and killed. I'll
never forget standing in the bathroom and hearing her scream from the
kitchen.

Susan, combining two stories

Fetteroll

on 2/15/03 12:11 PM, susan bundlie at strandbe@... wrote:

> They'd go into the fields outside of town and use threshers and
> combines (are they the same thing?)

Being a nonfarmer but a good guesser, my guess would be that a combine
*combines* 2 or more machines that used to be separate.

And that's what my dictionary says. A combine heads, threshes and cleans
grain. I'm not sure what each of those is in farm terms but I could guess
again ;-)

Joyce

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Well if anyone looks at me like I'm a worm because I don't own a combine,
then, I'll say "I care too much about my dog to own a combine."


Sandra
on 1/4 of an acre
in town
in a desert full of rocks

Deborah Lewis

Mama deer sometimes have their babies curl up in the tall hay and it has
happened around here more than once they get killed or nearly killed.
Lot's of farmers let their dogs run out there just to chase little fawns
so they don't have that problem. I haven't heard about anyone's dog
getting it, but I bet it's happened. Ugh.

But it would have worked on those aliens I bet. AND they wouldn't have
had their little crop circle landing grid thingy anymore either.

Deb, who always thought it was those smart border collies making crop
circles for their amusement...


On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:22:04 EST SandraDodd@... writes:
> Well if anyone looks at me like I'm a worm because I don't own a
> combine,
> then, I'll say "I care too much about my dog to own a combine."
>
>
> Sandra
> on 1/4 of an acre
> in town
> in a desert full of rocks

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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:34:58 -0700 Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
writes:
> Deb, who always thought it was those smart border collies making
> crop
> circles for their amusement...
>
Ah, now that makes sense!

Nana likes to run a few circles around me when we go for a walk, really
tight, fast circles. Then she stops ahead of me and stands very still
until I get up to her and just lightly touch her chin, and then she takes
off again!

She has a black lab friend now, we dogsat for a couple of days, and we've
invited another border collie to come visit next week (as well as his 4
human kids and their mother),

Dar, who missed this morning's walk because the crop dusters were out :-/