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With the 4th coming up, hope many see this. i am so sick of fireworks. Used to be yearly, now it`s weekly all summer.

Targeting the big boys while largeheads and catfish spawn here. We dont usually target wiper from shore. But we decided go after a few lately. Can't say this one was even close to the biggest of the day. But i didnt have my phone to take pictures of all the ficchy heads.

Dae being Dae

Sometimes there gets to be a lot of "Blue Smoke" on this thread . . . . By the way, another Big Four came back to life after being a rust pile for about 90 years.

Didn't mean to slight the F12---F14's Professor. I just consider them in the same generation with the other grey Farmalls. My 4th grade teacher's dad (neighbor just up the highway) had a F-12. She sold it to her farm tenant (another neighbor). I supposedly had first "dibs" on it if he wanted to sell it. One day I noticed the F-12 was gone-------my neighbor had forgotten about his friend just down the road. Later I sold my 4th grade teacher's little farm-------and acquired some middle busters for the F-12, and the steel wheels and tongue from a Studebaker wagon amongst a few other rusty items from her. And------they all have accumulated more rust during my ownership. (but they are still within 1/2 mile of home!!!)? The Studebaker wagon "might" be something that I will get together someday. (needs axles and a small body cobbled together) That F12 is a slick looking little tractor-----the mowing machine really sets it off. DD

Gus helping with the bucket calves. He will carry the bucket back to the barn for me but can't get him to feed them himself, lazy dog??

I’m really surprised nobody posted anything about Holsteins, well maybe I’ll be the first! Let me tell you how much I love the Holstein breed… N0T!!! I’ve been around Holsteins all my life, put in 40 years of milking them! When I turned 50 I decided I had enough after milking them every day! I still have morning chores to do and every second or third day I clean and bed the pens for the heifers and dry cows. Some of the stupid things I’ve seen them do boggles the mind! My latest endeavour was of a dry cow somehow or another got lying on her side against the wall of the barn on top of the pile of snow that slide off the roof and stuck her head through the gate, at first I tried to push her head back through the gate but she was being stubborn and fought with me the whole time, then I decided to get a 2 x 4 to maybe try and pry her head out but that didn’t work either! Then I thought I could get the skid steer and just nudge her head back through with the bucket, that worked like a charm! I backed up the skid steer and before I could get out she had her head stuck back in the gate, so I tried to push her head back through again but she was being stupid and un cooperative, so I decided to unlatch the gate and use the skid steer to pull the gate off her head which worked like a charm also, then I had to use the skid steer to push on her a little to get her to slide off the pile of snow then she was able to get up. I have a picture which I took with my flip phone that will give you an idea, it’s not a very good picture! And not to mention I had to be somewhere and this made me late! ?