Monday, November 13, 2006

this old tractor



There's just a greasy spot there now, where the tractor usually sits.

I am not sure of the history of this old tractor, except that it was once my dad's. He used it when we moved to the mountains, to plant a garden, scrape the gravel driveway. It then came to us, we have used it to also scrape the driveway, pull logs out of the woods for firewood.

The 1964 Ford tractor is in the tractor hospital. The call came with the bad news - the tractor might not make it through this time. Old parts worn out, new ones won't work. Decisions to be made. Tractor hospice? Yard ornament? Tractor for sale? Delegated to the special place behind the shop with the other retirees - cement mixer, hot tub, satellite dish?

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