There were more than a dozen little pieces of farm equipment, tractors, trailers, haulers, trucks, animals... and a work shed. Cooper was thrilled. Although he isn't quite as discriminatory as his uncle is about his tractors being John Deere, he surely recognizes the green and yellow features.
My favorite part was the letter that accompanied the gift outlining what each piece of machinery was and what it's purpose is.
And I quote:
Dear Cooper,
I saw this in a store called grain growers, where you can buy real tractors, and thought I wish I had one of these when I was little. And I'm thinking about going back and getting me a set.
You get a big 9000 series tractor, 2 8000 series tractors, and 6000 series tractor and an old model 40 tractor.
The trailer with the yellow top is a feed trailer, The brown trailer is the horse trailer, make sure and pull it slow, so the horses stay calm.
The big white trailer is for spraying weeds in the fields, don't let the animals get to close to it. then the two all green trailers are just utility trailers, anything from poop to corn can go in there.
The black flat bed trailer is for broken equipment or hauling your antique model 40 to the county fair.
The black and green thing is called a disk horrow and a plow, it grinds up the ground and makes it into rows so you can put seeds in. Make sure you pull it with your big tractor the little ones probably won't do it.
Then you have the dump truck for your heavy puling and hauling. There's two pickups there- a dodge and a ford, no chevys, I looked for one but they didn't have any, so don't pull anything too big.
There are 4 holstein cows there, they are pretty nice cows as long as they get feed, kind of like your aunt lindsay. You have two Bay quarter horses, and two buckskins. The buchskins are my favorite. Make sure your studs stay away from your mares.
Have fun pal. I love you. See you in a month. Love, Uncle Boogs
P.S. Don't put that stuff in your mouth, it makes your breath funny.
I must admit, it was quite the education for one like me who thinks a tractor is a tractor and if it has a trailer, then super- I don't think the type of trailer has ever crossed my mind!
The gift was incredibly thoughtful- first that he thought to buy it for Coop in the first place and then that he took the time to wrap them and write about each piece. Ben's handwriting is still horendous, but it is also a treasure. He is finishing his time on the ranch and is disappointed to be heading home. He has grown strong over the summer and enjoyed his time in a beautiful, peaceful, simple part of the world. He was completely in his element and I can't wait to hear more about it. Thank you bonj, I love you and am so glad that you are my brother and that you are Coop's uncle.
6 comments:
was i just called a holstein cow?
How cute is that! I darn near teared up.
P.S. I think you were Linds, you'd better do something about that.
oh, i darn near teared up too. you must save that letter in a safe place so when coop is older he can read it and understand how cool it is. harrie...i think you weren't called a cow directly, maybe just have similiar characteristics, like you must eat or you become very, very grumpy :)
what a nice gift! i just learned more than i ever new about farm equipment.
My boys would kill for all that. Lucky little guy!
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