Today at the dinner table we heard a fresh story from Granpa's childhood. Many times, there are re-runs, but recently, we are hearing about a few details that he has never shared before. The topic today was plowing and meal time.
It seems he was allowed to sit on the plow and be in charge of the team of horses during planting season-- 6 in all (they had 7 total, in case they needed a spare), when he was as young as 8 or 9.
He implied that many people used 4 horses, but they had 6, for some reason. Anyway, the story was how the horses would always know when it was noon time and when to head for the barn.
They got about 2 hours of rest for 'lunch'.. .then went back out. One reason this topic came up was that we were talking about clocks, telling time and watches. He probably didn't have a watch as a boy, but he mentioned that he had a good pocket watch when he 'worked' ( in the oil fields, apparently).. .and later, he went through several Timex watches, Granma added.
Granma prompted him that he had been kicked by a horse as a boy. . what was the story behind that, we asked?. . he was trying to pick cockelburs out his tail, and he didn't like that, so the horse gave him a gent kick, and he went flying across the barn and hit the wall!
LM
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