This morning I was thrilled to see this...
...and I was thrilled to do this...
Jim mowed the last few acres of fifth cutting hay, and after milking we spent the evening at the West Lampeter Fair! I watched the dairy beef show and Jim spent sometime looking at the old tractors and watching some of the happenings in the arena.
This is my brother-in-law Marty's tractor...a 1936 John Deere D...one of the many antique tractors entered in the fair this year...
It sat in the middle of a field in western Kansas for years until he convinced the owner to sell it to him. He had it hauled east and restored it in my Dad's "shop". A bunch of the family was around to cheer him on when he started it up for the very first time, and his Dad in western Kansas was listening in on the phone. Over the past number of years he's spent a lot of time working on this old tractor. Not too shabby for 81 years old! (the tractor, not his wife! :) )
The only problem is the color...
