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Originally Posted by Mike CT:

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That is a particularly nice tree: it looks like a real dead tree, with the limbs cracked off and the farmer has just gathered them/pushed them aside a bit - I've seen read dead trees on real farms just like that.  Excellent eye for detail. 

 

This is a great scene by the way.  I love an uncluttered country look once in a while.  I tried hard for a moment to make up a nice pun here about "until the cows come home" but it's way too early in the morning to think that hard.  

Geez - people will try to sell anything!  When I was a kid we lived outside of Farmington NM where my Dad was running an experimental type of new drilling rig for Standard of Indiana.  We had tumbleweeds piled up at and around the front the door every morning.  My job was to cbring in the milk if it was a day when it had been delivered, then gather up all the tmbleweeds on the porch and and take them around back so they could blow on away into someone else's land.

Originally Posted by Lee Willis:

My job was to cbring in the milk if it was a day when it had been delivered, then gather up all the tmbleweeds on the porch and and take them around back so they could blow on away into someone else's land.

LOL, share the joy! So, Lee you were a Tumbleweed Wrangler! Did the milk come in bottles with a a little cream at the top? That's how I remember it! Yuck! Hated that stuff at the top!

Originally Posted by PRR2818:
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:

My job was to cbring in the milk if it was a day when it had been delivered, then gather up all the tmbleweeds on the porch and and take them around back so they could blow on away into someone else's land.

LOL, share the joy! So, Lee you were a Tumbleweed Wrangler! Did the milk come in bottles with a a little cream at the top? That's how I remember it! Yuck! Hated that stuff at the top!

Yeah, it was left on the porch around 7 AM in bottles, with a kind of cardboard cap insert that I have not seen in years - no doubt not good enough for modern standards now.  Anyway, we had the stuff at the top, too, but we always poured that out.  it was only a little bit and my Mom said it was not good to drink it.  I certainly did not argue.

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I sometimes use small branches and twigs. After all, they are parts of  real trees and shrubs. 

As for the milk, I made it a point to get to the milk box first, just so I could get the cream at the top.That was in the days before homoginization. My family owned a dairy, and we lived directly across the street. Needless to say, our milk was delivered first. We too had the short wide bottles with tapered necks. The caps were wax coated paper with the cardboard insert bearing the dairy name and type of milk. The cardboard inserts were called pogs. It was a popular kids game to flip pogs. 

Don

Off topic.  But on the other end of milk before bulk pick-up at the farm.  As a high school junior/senior I  would haul the raw milk to the local dairy/creamery.  Pick-up truck and 10 gallon cans.    One of the cans that survived.  Eventually when I was off to college there was bulk milk pick-up at the farm. 

Some of my wife's art work. 

 

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