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« on: December 04, 2005, 05:03:54 PM »

I've got Jon's film developed, working on scanning.
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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2005, 07:34:58 PM »

Photos!

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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2005, 04:07:43 PM »

Hello all

Thanks for getting the negatives developed!  I do appreciate it.

We live on a horse farm that my wife twisted my arm into buying about a year and a half ago.  The NJ photos are from SOUTHERN New Jersey - all around and about the farm.

1 – Front paddock, back to the house, looking at the treeline in the distance.  (the ‘second’ treeline is state forest).  I thought the sky was looking interesting, as were the tree colors.  This was in late October or early November.  Hayfield is on the other side of the fence.  The white fence is the neighbor’s.

2 – The back paddock; the one you could see in the distance in photo 1.

3 – Standing a bit back from where I was standing in Photo 1, looking the same way.   My son Patrick is making a leaf pile.

4 – Looking down the front paddock fenceline, looking at the barn and the back paddock.

5 – Hosses – the lighter one is “Mister Briggs”, the darker one is “You Too”, and the paint that you half see (I thought he was either cut out or included – can’t remember which) is “Megaman”.  No, we didn’t name the horses, so I have no idea why the names. They usually go by “Briggs”, “You”, and “Meg”.  Unlike the cats, they DO come when you call them.

6 – Mister Briggs.  He gave us a scare this past summer when he colicked.  He needed emergency surgery to fix his bowels, because his colon had hooked on his spleen and twisted the large intestine.  NOT fun.

7 – Another one of Mister Briggs.  I like the colors of the trees in the background.

8 – Looking forward, towards the house, from the corner of the barn.  Generally looking right back at where I took photo number 1.


Yep - that's home!   I thought the tree colors would make for some interesting photos.

Jon
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2005, 02:53:32 AM »

Square bale or round? I got a coupla young-uns that could use some life-experience as we would say back in the deep south. If ya'll are still luggin' square-bale, I gotta pair of field-humpers I'll lend ya fer free this summer.

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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2005, 05:22:25 PM »

Hello again

All small square here - Round bale is tempting, because they are so cheap, but I'm really not set up to work with them.  And 60-75 lb bales aren't so bad, once you get used to throwin them around.

Pulled about 300 bales off the field for the first cut this year - weather was poor, so I didnt bother with a second.  THAT is work....gettin the bales out of the field and into the barn.  

You are right, it is an education all by itself for the kids. They grumble some, but a little hard work never hurt anybody...

Jon
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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2005, 05:26:44 PM »

That's how I spent my summers as a lad, but we had several hundred head of cattle so balin' was peddle-to-the-metal when in season. I tell my kids that I could drive a Deere 1520 pulling a 5-pt plow by myself, but they don't get it. Also spent many days working bees in the swamps and groves of Florida. Wouldn't mind working a small operation today, you know, for survival or shits and grins, but I'll not set foot on any spread over 25 acres as long as I live. Too much work, and we kept 250 acres - beef, hog, raisin feed corn, etc. City folk have no idea.

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