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Emily - Apr 17, 2008 7:09:08 am PDT #2357 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I kinda feel like a freak. I grew up in Kansas and have always been a city boy. My parents were city folk. My grandparents were city folk. Pretty much no farm heritage at all.

Well, my grandfather had a hobby farm, but he sold insurance for a living.

Oh wait, he majored in agriculture. I guess I am slightly less citified than Gud. Though you wouldn't know it by meeting me! I'm all, "So, do you bring the cows inside in the winter? Or what? Wow, how many colors of horses are there? Like, four? Oh. 37, you say. Huh."

Jesse - Apr 17, 2008 7:09:53 am PDT #2358 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I kinda feel like a freak. I grew up in Kansas and have always been a city boy. My parents were city folk. My grandparents were city folk. Pretty much no farm heritage at all.

I have no farm heritage, either, that I know of. Definitely not in my grandparents' generation.

Gudanov - Apr 17, 2008 7:11:13 am PDT #2359 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Yeah, I'm farm clueless too. I have driven a full size tractor though, albeit not on a farm.

Kat - Apr 17, 2008 7:13:58 am PDT #2360 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think the USPS eventually got around to using a roadname and number.

sara, this is true of my dad's small town. My aunt was on the township board so when it came time to giving roadnames, she used her family's names!

Jesse - Apr 17, 2008 7:14:12 am PDT #2361 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My exurban college roommate's father totally pulled a Tom Sawyer on me and got me to help get the pool ready for summer, but I caught on before he got me to mow the lawn. "Have you ever driven a riding mower?" "OMG! I never have!! ...wait."

JZ - Apr 17, 2008 7:16:04 am PDT #2362 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

My paternal grandfather would have become a shepherd if he hadn't run away to America at the age of 13, and my maternal great-great grandmother was a goatherd in the Swiss-Italian Alps. That's as close to anything remotely farmlike as any of my family history gets (that I know of--since we were mostly small town or country peasants pre-US, there may have been tiny plots of land and family vegetable gardens involved somewhere along the way).

Kathy A - Apr 17, 2008 7:18:16 am PDT #2363 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

My mom was raised on a dairy farm, and Dad was also raised on a farm, but it was a small one for mostly family food. Grandpa A's main income came from various jobs he had around town, up to and including being a janitor at Stateville Penitentiary at one point.

tommyrot - Apr 17, 2008 7:18:22 am PDT #2364 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

maternal great-great grandmother was a goatherd in the Swiss-Italian Alps.

Was she a lonely goatherd?

My grandparents were all dairy farmers. I think all my great-grandparents were too....

Jesse - Apr 17, 2008 7:19:02 am PDT #2365 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In other news, I love that the Harry Potter trial judge invoked Bleak House! I love Bleak House. [link]

Kathy A - Apr 17, 2008 7:19:55 am PDT #2366 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Dairy farmers' grandchildren represent!

high-fives tommyrot

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