Just home from trucking the last 2 loads of pigs out of the barns.
Now no need to go to the barn each day. Will just start cleaning out equipment and readying for tear down next year with better weather.
So I hauled the last load into a yard where the owner has just been assembling pigs for the last 15 years as he gave up his trucks and license after he turned 67 or so since it is so hard to keep an A license after 65.
Now this is the last load of pigs he will assemble since the only other producer still taking pigs there retired in June. He was there this am for coffee as he, like me and the 82 yr old yard owner all get the old age pension.
The trucker picking up the pigs also took time this am to visit since he is 63 years old and looking at the end of a career moving livestock since he was 16 years old.
The 82 year old yard owner had an envelope with a 1 cent stamp on it with receipts from May of 1950 for pigs he trucked to a plant in Stratford Ontario. Plant now closed, well has been closed for 40 + years.
He says he was trucking pigs 3 years before that in 1947.
Anyway there are 2 more people retired from the swine industry as of this morning.
Now I can keep you guys straightened out more of the time
@Canuck_2 wrote:Just home from trucking the last 2 loads of pigs out of the barns.
Now no need to go to the barn each day. Will just start cleaning out equipment and readying for tear down next year with better weather.
So I hauled the last load into a yard where the owner has just been assembling pigs for the last 15 years as he gave up his trucks and license after he turned 67 or so since it is so hard to keep an A license after 65.
Now this is the last load of pigs he will assemble since the only other producer still taking pigs there retired in June. He was there this am for coffee as he, like me and the 82 yr old yard owner all get the old age pension.
The trucker picking up the pigs also took time this am to visit since he is 63 years old and looking at the end of a career moving livestock since he was 16 years old.
The 82 year old yard owner had an envelope with a 1 cent stamp on it with receipts from May of 1950 for pigs he trucked to a plant in Stratford Ontario. Plant now closed, well has been closed for 40 + years.
He says he was trucking pigs 3 years before that in 1947.
Anyway there are 2 more people retired from the swine industry as of this morning.
Now I can keep you guys straightened out more of the time
I remember a sign at my son's Boy Scout camp that goes like this..."Time takes everything, but memories".
It seems like the seasons of life just fly by. This is the first time I have had a minute to even drop by here in over a week. Working on campaigns efforts to target and get out the votes, early if possible.....My daughter's Marching Band competitions are in high gear, and the last two weekends have been on the road competing with some of the best bands in Iowa. Just this past Saturday evening...., they came in second out of 13 High School bands at the Five Seasons Invitational Marching Band Competition in Cedar Rapids. (You Tube videos will be coming soon) I drove the big rental truck hauling the massive "pit" equipment and helping the band members with uniforms, hats, taping up gloves, finding things, fixing things, serving up apples and handing out water..... and generally encouraging them to do their best and cheering them on.
Firewood season is soon to be here and getting the last of the hay harvest done so that I can put the balers away......perhaps for the last time for a couple of years.....or maybe forever.
Things are always changing....sometimes for the best, but not always so.
Enjoy every day....once they are gone, you can never go back and live them again.
