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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be napping through the keeper’s obligatory annual threshing time reminiscence. Show the keeper a former farm kid whose memory goes back that far and he will show you someone who romanticizes the time when neighbors assembled around steam engines, tractors, horses, greeneries and dinner tables laden with the best the hostess could produce.
The keeper remembers being buried in freshly threshed grain by good natured husky young men dumping their grain sack burdens on top of him as he did his “job” of tending to the bin level.
When threshing memories go back to steam engine days some sort of prize should be awarded. The keeper will wait while one is prepared. Maybe an old grain sack.
Photo by Bill Stokes