Empire Farm Days

[Doc]

Went out to see the Empire Farm Days in Seneca Falls yesterday. What a show! We wandered around that thing for hours and still didn't quite get to see it all. I am always amazed at the size and specialization of some of that stuff. It's all just huge. the combines are unbelievable. The last time I had anything to do with grain, I was the bagger on the combine. Yes, we used to hand-bag every bit of it. And yes, I was the kid with heavy-duty hay fever that was sitting on that combine with all that dust swirling around my head.....lol. And the monstrous hay balers have long ago replaced those little round then square bales that we used to horse around on the wagons and then into the barn. And the old trams and hay forks that we used for putting up loose hay in the early days are forever gone.

 

I'll tell you even if you aren't a farmer or even ever were a farmer, it is just amazing to see the kinds of things that farmers are dealing with these days. Sure makes our old 8N with the 2-bottom plow look like Tonka toys....lol. One more day (Thursday).

http://www.empirefarmdays.com/

[Cabin Fever]

Was there much to the Sportsmans Center? I would like to go this afternoon. My kids are working there and I have to pick my daughter up early. Thought I might take a peek at the Sportsmans Center. Won't have time to check out much else...

[Doc]

We never did make it to the Sportsmen's center, or somehow missed it. The thing is so huge that it was pretty easy to miss specific targets. Unfortunately, we ran out if poop before we were able to cover the whole thing, and to tell the truth, I had forgotten about the sportsman's exhibits tent. Well, maybe next year .... lol. I have to say that if that was done anywhere near as well as the rest of it, we probably missed a good display.

[Zhe Wiz]

I was hoping to make it out this year, I haven't been since I was a kid on our dairy farm in the early 80's.  Wanted to go again just out of curiosity, but the timing didn't work out.  Hopefully next year.