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How about "balk" for the empty ground between crop rows? "Fistalowed and Spavined" for two work horse ailments. How about "draught" for a dip or drain in a field? I always liked "Yonder" for a ways off and "Reckon" for think or estimate. My girls, age 10 and 14, get upset to hear someone call...

Have any of you any experience with planning and zoning in your county? It is being debated here. All our neighboring counties have fairly strict P and Z and we are getting lots of development no one else wants, driving up taxes to run water lines, rebuild county roads, and build new schools for...

Prior to city water lines being run everywhere, almost every stock barn around here caught water off rusty tin roofs to water cattle. I have a large tobacco barn guttered that provides water for the heifers I wean each fall. My only problem is when we go a long time between rains like we have...

I bought the place I'm on in 1972. All the neighbors farmed, helped one another, and gossiped terribly about one another behind their back. You knew where someone lived just by hearing their last name. Almost like the old Scottish clans. Now many of the best have died and the others all work in...

Mahoney, I don't think we've had a fight. Some have had a chance to vent a little. To me this is boards at their best. Everyone has probably learned a little and no one seems mad.

I read all your posts detailing the unfair advantages acrued by the Amish. Where are the posts complaining about the tax loopholes and political leverage being used by Big Agribusiness Corporations that drive the cost of your inputs higher and the price of what you have to sell lower. They are...

I hope I am not beating the horse too long but I find this interesting. I agree with you to a large degree Crowder but my feelings along this line are more stirred by wealthy realtors and those with political advantage who use the roads, waterlines, electric utililities paid for by generations...

Crowder, I respect your posts and can see your point. BUT! Each week I have young barefoot Amish kids help me load the sweet corn and tomatoes I buy at the auction. They are respectful, helpful and hardworking. The whole atmosphere is a little like I imagine it was across the country some years...

Large numbers of Amish/Mennonites have moved into the area just south of here over the last 15 years. Some people don't like them due to buggies on the road and their just being different I quess. I hired a crew of them to build my new house a few years ago. Lots of local builders did not...

Church of Christ here, born-raised and attend Am watching the Pope's funeral now on TV - one cannot help but be impressed by the centuries of tradition and the effect on the world by one humble man.