Five random questions

[Ptah]

1. What 4-H project did you win blue ribbons for at the county fair? when?

2. What year did your grandparents homestead?

3. What was the most severe weather you endured to care for your folks' livestock?

4. What was the first tractor you plowed with?

5. How many hay bails did you put up on your best day, and how much did they weigh?

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

1. Very random!

My answer to them are:

1. none
2. 0000
3. nada
4. zilch
5. zero


:hide:

[Ptah]

5. 100%

:thumbsup:

[Ptah]

2. I'll go first:

1. What 4-H project did you win blue ribbons for at the county fair? when?
1963, chickens and photography

2. What year did your grandparents homestead?
1911

3. What was the most severe weather you endured to care for your folks' livestock?
-40 F

4. What was the first tractor you plowed with?
Minneapolis Moline

How many hay bails did you put up on your best day, and how much did they weigh?
1900, 70 lbs each

[Kali]

12. Photograpy? It all makes sense now...

;-)

What kind of chickens?

[Ptah]

26. I somehow overlooked you post.

I had some Rhode Island Reds and some Leghorns.

One year, in the month of February, I purchased 100
day old chicks:





The following summer, I had sixty dozen eggs, rotting in my parents' basement.
I had misread the 4-H pamphlet about preserving eggs.

:blush:

[Kali]

27. oops

eeww

[idgiehkt]

3. Random answers

:hi: best I can come up with :shrug:

1. At a Halloween party once I guessed closest to how many candy corns were in the jar and I won it and got to take them home.

2. My grandparents bought their house around 1940 or so and paid $3000 for it and 2 acres of land. Her house and part of the land sold for $80,000 in 2003 and the other acre and the house on it is gonna sell for about $150,000 soon.

3. There was an awful blizzard in 1993 and me and my S.O. managed to keep 2 dogs, a cat, and 3 rats alive through it while being stranded inside for a week. The people next door raised sheep and a baby lamb died, which was really sad, but they didn't lose anymore of their livestock.

4. I have a Geo Tracker that I bought in 1997 (closest thing to a tractor I could think of).

5. I buy a bail of hay about once a month for the dogs here, they love it in their dog houses and it really keeps them warm; many times the outside cats will sleep in the doghouses on the hay.

Sorry my answers aren't relevant, these questions made me think about this stuff though.

[Ptah]

4. Your answers give some insight to your past,

therefore, I declare them relevant!

Thanks for a look at part of your past!

:hug:


Edit: fop?

[Kali]

6. I really liked your answers!

[Kali]

7. mememememe

1) Never did 4H, have never shown an animal. My Mom won a buckle for team roping in college (U of A) She and her father showed quarter horses some. There are some trophies and ribbons around here somewhere from the 50 and even into the 60s.

2) My Great-grandfather's first father-in-law first homesteaded this place prior to 1884, Great-grandfather homesteaded same place and expanded out over several others contiguous. Circa 1884. His second father-in-law was in the area even earlier, and prior to that had the famous stage station at Oatman Flat (after the kidnappings)

3) I have been very, verylucky and/or/spoiled - nothing like northern states. An occasional late cold night calving or something like that, but rarely below freezing. One year we moved cattle (horseback) from one end of the ranch to the farthest opposite end - about a 7 or 8 mile drive (after a full morning of gathering them) in a winter rain that turned out to be a record breaker. I think that is the wettest I have ever been, and the longest. It also involved trying to push them under an interstate underpass tunnel in a flood. Needless to say that didn't work very well.

4) No fields or tractors here, other than an occasional rental. (which I broke trying to remove some heaven trees. Obviously it was too small, I don't remember the make or model, bigger than a lawn tractor, though)

5) Again, I have missed the pleasure, although we buy and fill the barn with about 300 bales every July. I have found that hay work is a great occupation for teenagers. But I have bucked my share. 100 lb bales - three "wire". (can I whine about plastic string? I hate it, give me good ole baling wire any day! Nobody uses it anymore - I had to buy a roll a couple of years ago because we used up the 50 years worth from the attic of the barn...dang.)

[Ptah]

8. OK, now I'm looking at the Suntran map, to see how close I might get

to you and your family.

Do you ever travel to town?

:hi:

[Kali]

11. Do we ever get to town? Too often, would be my answer!

I know Sun Tran doesn't come this far east or I would probably use it instead of driving! :rofl:

Seriously we should do a Tucson meet-up - I think Wetzlebil (spell?) is at the U of A and there might be another couple of area DUers aren't there?

You are mid-town, right? We could meet at Rocco's or somewhere (I have a $5 dollar off coupon!!!!)

My next planned trip is next Thursday. KXCI board of directors meeting, downtown.

[Ptah]

15. I would like to congretate will some Tucson DUers.

Wetzlebill is from the same part of Montana as I am. He's from Cut Bank,
I'm from Conrad. (swag is from Havre)

Havocmom's daughter, Luna_Chick is here in Tucson, also.

Whoa_Nelly knows Tucson and maybe we could talk her into a meet-up
in Linda Ronstadt's home town.

Let's do it before the heat.

:hi:

[Kali]

29. Let's!

Before the heat would be pretty darn soon, I think.

[Left Is Write]

9. Answers...

1. What 4-H project did you win blue ribbons for at the county fair? when? That would be none and never.

2. What year did your grandparents homestead? I don't know, but I would guess they got the farm sometime in the '30s.

3. What was the most severe weather you endured to care for your folks' livestock? Dad had given up livestock by the time we young'uns came along.

4. What was the first tractor you plowed with? Does Tonka count?

5. How many hay bails did you put up on your best day, and how much did they weigh? Interestingly, having grown up in the suburbs, I avoided hay baling altogether.

[Ptah]

10. OK,

I will give you 37 points for the Tonka, 62 for family continuity
for a total of 99.

:thumbsup:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear Ptah!

I never got to do any of them......... :cry:

[Ptah]

17. But you have other experiences that I will never have.

Please don't cry, Peggy

now I feel bad.

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Oh, my dear Ptah........

I'm sorry, baby......Didn't mean to make you feel bad.......:hug:

It's really OK........I know I've had other experiences......

You know I love ya! :loveya:

[Ptah]

23. Love you too, Peggy

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Thank you for the beautiful pic, my dear Ptah......

:hug:

[Shell Beau]

14. These questions really aren't so random for a gal who grew up in the MS delta!

:P Although the farmers in the delta didn't farm animals as much as they did the land! ALthough, I do know some dairy farmers, etc.!

[Ptah]

18. It is good to remember home, huh Shell Beau?

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

21. Well, I didn't get too far from the delta! Only about 100 miles south of it!

Still in MS, but the MS delta is a totally different place than anywhere else in MS! I love it! Beautiful fields of cotton and corn! And let's not forget the awesome catfish ponds. They look really cool from the view of a plane!


and that pic doesn't really do justice!!

Not to mention growing up on the great Mississippi river! Great memories!

[Nicole]

16. Five answers

1. What 4-H project did you win blue ribbons for at the county fair? when?
An apron in 1973, a dress in 1975. In 1974 I got a white ribbon for a blouse.

2. What year did your grandparents homestead?
Not sure, great grandparents homesteaded in 1893 during the Oklahoma Land Run.

3. What was the most severe weather you endured to care for your folks' livestock?
Ice storm with temps in the 20°'s.

4. What was the first tractor you plowed with?
Farmall

5. How many hay bails did you put up on your best day, and how much did they weigh?
None

Bonus answer:
I did make out in the hay barn with the boy putting up the hay one summer. :evilgrin:

[Ptah]

19. Bonus answer.

What an afternoon that was!

[idgiehkt]

31. "he was working through college/ on my grandpa's farm..."

"I was thirstin for knowledge/ and he had a car..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyw5V27gSVQ
(Strawberry Wine, covered by The Wreckers)

[Nicole]

34. Pretty close.

:rofl:

I love that song. It definitely brings back sweet memories. :loveya:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

22. Okay

1. What 4-H project did you win blue ribbons for at the county fair? when?
Funny you should ask. Hubby asked me last night if I had been in 4-H. No, never. Made a neat volcano for the science fair, though.

2. What year did your grandparents homestead?
Grandpa and Grandma were living on a farm on Rt 99 in OK when Dad was born in 1912. Their parents were in the '89 Land Rush.

3. What was the most severe weather you endured to care for your folks' livestock?
Made my mom's Pekingese go out to pee during the Big Blizzard of '62.

4. What was the first tractor you plowed with?
I'm a girl, I don't plow.

5. How many hay bails did you put up on your best day, and how much did they weigh?
Hair balls? Cat belonging to previously mentioned mom spit one up. Don't know how much it weighed. For all I know it's still there on the floor.

[Ptah]

24. .

1. 25 points for knowing about 4-H.
2. 17 points for your father being born seven years before mine.
3. Is a Pekingese some medical condition?
4. If you want to eat, you will plow, just like the rest of us.
5. If there was an animal making hairballs, it would be outside, and I think
the chickens would gang up.

[mentalsolstice]

28. A NYC oy!

I'm not from NYC. And I'm not Jewish. But this was the best answer I could give, since there's not a WASP smilie (although, I'm not a WASP, I'm Catholic... oh :wtf:!? :shrug:

On edit: I did go to HS in rural AL, but I didn't have time to learn to raise a champion cow or hog. But I admired those that did, because I love animals!

[Ptah]

30. You talkin' to me?

[Broken_Hero]

32. Okay,

1. What 4-H project did you win blue ribbons for at the county fair? when? What???? none!

2. What year did your grandparents homestead? on my mother side, none...cause they were all ready here, and on my father side, through Ohio/Utah, and then WA.

3. What was the most severe weather you endured to care for your folks' livestock?none

4. What was the first tractor you plowed with?none

5. How many hay bails did you put up on your best day, and how much did they weigh?none, yet...I have thrown hay though, 50lb bales for my neighbor..and quite a damn lot of'em

[Ptah]

33. I thought you were from Alaska.

:?:

[Broken_Hero]

35. I am from Alaska, been in SW missouri for

working on four years...

[u4ic]

36. Interesting quiz, Ptah...

1. Never did 4-H, but I did some showing (low level dressage, and jumping).

Won and placed in a number of classes...was even reserve champion at one show. :-)

At one Christmas barn show, I won a book - the title escapes me now, but it was a well known one - for having the 'best eyes', ie always looking forward to the next jump (which would mean I was just getting to a jump, or barely over it and looking for the new one), or what's ahead.


2. Maternal grandparents immigrated to, and homesteaded, in Saskatchewan 1907...he was 28, she was 23 and their only child (at that time) was 4.

Paternal grandparents homesteaded in 1921, just after they married. He was 21, she was 16.


3. How about my own (horse)? -35C. Blizzards/whiteouts. I lived in the city, but would drive in those conditions to get to the barn.


4. Probably a John Deere. That's what I recall at my aunt and uncle's farm, though it seemed like they had a brazillion tractors.


5. I did help those in my above post, but...how many I don't know...perhaps 20? I was still fairly young, and a city gal visiting them for only a few days. It was just a bit of fun, rather than work.

[Ptah]

37. As an aside, I traveled to Moose Jaw with my high school band.

1. you are more of a horseperson than me.

2. I think it was cold that year {Saskatchewan 1907}

3. Now I have to google centigrade
wait one moment, please




-40 Canadian is cold.


4. How many is a brazillion metric?

5. hay can be fun

[Chan790]

38. As a townie...

1. 0, Never.
2. 1952
3. Thundersnow...if by livestock you mean my brothers.
4. It came from Sears.
5. I never bailed hay. I've eaten hay though.