Tractor events

After about two years of not participating in any of our tractor club events, we finally got back into some activities with them.  First there was the parade at the Higginsville fair.  I think there were fourteen tractors there.

It was a very warm day and there wasn't any shade where the tractors were gathered, so I took a chair and went across the street to sit in the shadow of a tree, from where I took this picture.

There's Cliff, sitting on the carryall he built for me to ride in.  That's our recently-bought Super C Farmall.  It was already painted when we bought it, although if you get up close to it you can tell Cliff didn't paint it; his paint jobs are a lot more smooth and shiny.  It is a very good tractor though, and it's small enough that we can haul it on our trailer.

The weekend after the fair, we went on a memorial drive for one of the fellows who started our tractor club; they began with just five members.  We started out our drive at the farm where the fellow we were honoring had lived, and had a light lunch of sandwiches.

There was the sweetest little boy there, playing very nicely by himself all that time, although his parents kept telling him not to throw gravel.  I wonder if there is any little boy anywhere who doesn't want to throw rocks and gravel?  He was glad to pose for a picture, and then showed me a trick of his, performed with water-bottle-caps:

Then we rode to Lexington and into the graveyard.

We stood around the grave and people who knew James well told stories about how the tractor club was formed, and some of the fun times they'd had in the beginning of it.  Some of his relatives were with us, one driving his tractor and another driving an antique truck he'd been very proud of.

From the graveyard we went to another club-member's house and had home-made ice cream.  It was a full day, for sure, and we were worn out when we finally went home.