i am so proud. my husband took a pile of junk garden tractor and restored it to this lovely state. this is a 1969 simplicity land lord garden tractor. it is pretty buff, i don't know if it comes across so tough in the photo... but it is! it also has a snowblower that attaches and dan says you can also get a cultivator for it! that would be great for future gardens. when dan got this (for free) it was rusty and ugly. he sandblasted, primed, painted, got new parts, and even machined a few parts for it. he is amazing. he creates.there is a neat little place in brainerd, MN called "this old farm". it adjoins "paul bunyanland". every fall t.o.f. has a "show days". they run the machinery and staff the buildings that are usually just for looks. i bought popcorn and a rootbeer float for us in the sweet shoppe. we saw men threshing barley. we watched men make planks in the sawmill, nails in the black smith building, and shingles in... what? a shingle shack?:) there was also a tractor pull (good clean red-neck fun), and a tractor parade. mostly it was regular tractors, but there were a few garden tractors. too bad jack's hat slipped down. for dinner we partook of a pig roast. yum! now dan has another garden tractor to restore. maybe next year i'll be in the parade!
of how silly of me. i forgot to mention that we were also interviewed for the local news that day! they showed a short segment of dan's interview, but i was there. looking like a scared rabbit and squinting into the sun. it is hilarious. we videotaped the newscast. so come on over and see me looking like a moron. oh, and dan sounds like kermit the frog.:)
top photo: sawill; middle photo: pastor skog, dan, jack; bottom photo: dan & jack in tractor parade
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