[ponyakr]

there are several reminders of the past just outside. the 800 ford was our biggest ever--22' box. i drove chevy, gmc, ford, international & last & least--a red stude pick-up. i learned how 2 shift a stick drivin these old "clabber wagons", as i called em. we use 2 get our water from a deep well drawn by an old sucker rod pump that was located between where the 2 trucks are sitting. it had a leather washer of some kind on the end of the rods which would have 2 be changed out every couple of months. i can remember it was all hands on deck when we had 2 pull out all those joints of sucker rods to change the gasket or washer or whatever it was called. had 2 be real careful not 2 drop em in the hole--we never did--thankfully. i enjoyed drivin them old trucks--but an added bonus was that i could drink all the cold choclate milk i wanted, day or nite. the small truck pictured is what we called a "retail" or "house 2 house" truck. the proper term would probably be "home delivery truck". it is sitting on all thats left of what use 2 be our 4-holer truck shed, after a tornado blew it down. this shot was taken from the milking parlor. before it was a truck shed, this slab was used as a holding pen for cows waiting 2 be milked.