91. Chemo Husband's Birthday

Thought I should mention that it's my husband's birthday today!   He is a farmer, farmed, and still farms, 3 quarters, a grain farm only, no animals are involved, other than our spoiled dog, Gemmie. 😊 In addition he was a heavy duty mechanic, for many years working off the farm to supplement our income.  When he was young, his parents had a small dairy farm and the boys were involved in doing chores.  In the 70s the farm had to be modernized, but since Grandpa was close to retiring and a major investment of money was required, the farm was sold to what was then called the Land Bank, a government agency, for a pittance.  Soon after the sale my husband was presented with the opportunity to lease that same land back from the Land Bank, which we did for many, many years.  We payed much more in rent than what the grandparents received when they sold.  In addition to the rent/lease money, it was also our responsibility to pay for the property taxes on this land we did not own.  Go figure!  Once an adult, my husband had his belly more than full of dairy farming and switched into cereal crops: mostly barley, canola and canary seed.  But over the years he has also grown flax, sunflowers, wheat, quinoa (long before it became mainstream) and last year experimented growing a small plot of buckwheat.  The only crop he will definitely not grow is oats, because he is allergic to the stuff! 😟

Happy Birthday Hon! And many more years, especially in good health!  SanTeh! 😘

My then young husband is on the left!