How boomers ruined the blues...

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9. I did field labor as a 12 year old, every summer until 18

bailed hay, cut weeds out of soybean fields with a hand machete, picked fruit ( cherries ) in an orchard.

This was in addition to daily chores on our own farm...

Waking up at 5am in January, hiking about .5 miles to our pond to break the ice ( usually about a foot thick ) in the pond so our horses could keep it open and drink all day ( sub zero weather, wind, and stars like diamonds in the sky ). Feeding the horses, plowing our 2 acre garden by hand in the spring, mucking out the barn, mowing the pasture... etc.