I had a good day today

Got my butt outta bed at 5:30 and took off for our local farmers market. Grandson and I got a great spot. We sold a lot of honey, etc. The Amish gals set up 3 booths down from us. They had a table full of fresh home made pies. I bought 1 and on the way home we stopped buy our Fareway grocery store and picked up a1/2 gallon of ice cream. I saw they need 25 3 lb jugs of honey early on Monday. We got home, had some dinner, a nap, and then fired up the old red pick-up and went to pick up my new to me green disk. Part of the day was spent teaching this grandkid about jacking up the disk, bolting the new tires on it,etc. We had quite a struggle getting it jacked up high enough to hook up the transport bar. Anyway we got it home, at 10 mph. Darn thing wanted to whip all over. Now ol shameless will like this. When I turned in the drive way my Pyrneese dog attacked the disk. He went ballistic. It's a good thing he didn't get his teeth on one of my new tires. Anyway, I've got 1/2 a pie left in the fridge along with 1/2 gallon of ice cream and some great tasting sausage for dinner tomorrow. No dang fast food tomorrow. Weather was GREAT too. I got to talk to Bob, my neighbor, about his dad. Bob told me his dad and brother both bought new 4020's and identical disks in 1965. This was his dad's disk. I knew both his dad and brother from the tire shop days. They ran green equipment with the exception of their combine. They ran Gleaner combines. They were all great farmers.

Tom, a chain binder from tongue at hitch to disc frame will tighten them up for road travel. Always helped me.Glad all went well. HTH Tracy

It was a Peach pie. Gonna pick up an Apple pie next Saturday. They sure beat pies from Walmart.

Making me hungry for one of my bride's peach cobblers made with homegrown peaches she canned last year.

 Rhubarb is in season, which makes good pie. 

 Each his own, I like it real well.

Strawberry Rhubarb pie is good! Of course I like most any fruit pies! Not much for cream pies unless it's cheesecake.

my Dad bought a new green disk back in the late 60's, that thing wanted to wiggle all over too even pulling it with the tractor. was a BW something I think. I think it's back in the iron pile yet.

Half the sugar in a rhubarb recipe?! Dang that must pucker all the way to your toenails!

Dusty MI wrote:  My dad used to tell that when he was growing up that he would take a salt-shaker to the rhubarb patch, pick a stalk of rhubarb, put some salt on it and eat it.

Funny thing there, when I was pretty young, friends of mom and dad had a patch and we did that, ate it raw with a little salt and I liked it. Then probably 15-20 years later, at some occasion there was strawberry rhubarb pie. I thought great! I like strawberries, like rhubarb, here it goes…    The wife is an excellent cook and makes good pies too. She said that I just have to have a good rhubarb pie made and try it again. So i did.