There are many reasons that I love my lifestyle and
growing up in a rural community. One of them is the annual tractor games at the
local Tavern. Yes. Tractor games. Tractor fishing! Tractor basketball! Tractor
balance beam! Tractor Plinko! Tractor drag the chain into a metal box faster
than everyone else! Tractor poker run! The list goes on and on.
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| Tractor Basketball! |
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| Tractor Balance Beam! |
The games are a blast, and it is great to see all the old
tractors actually being used. It's even better to see the older guys passing on
the love of their equipment to the younger
generation.
There were countless boys and girls of all ages competing - many of
them on tractors that had been purchased new by their great-grandparents.
It was at one of these shows that my grandpa's got into
an argument over whether it was better to plow with mules or with horses. Those
are moments that are precious to me.
They are almost as precious as watching my grandpa's face
as I drove by on the Massey Harris #30 that my great-grandfather bought new in
1950. His smile lit up the park I tell you. Just like my late grandpa's did
when I used his Case SC a few years ago.
It definitely makes up for how much I suck at tractor
basketball. And yes. I managed to miss the basket even when I could
literally touch the hoop. I have skills.
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