The Coffee House

[limr33 2]

So pretty!

Thank's I've been working out.

I could tell!

 

[limr33 2]

Here's my father's tractor in the back. The pickup with the cap was his. The red truck was either something he was working on for someone or a friend stopping by. It's also blocking the boom. There is a better picture of the tractor but I have to dig around for it. Oh, and that's me picking flowers with my mother.

 

[tirediron]

Ooh, I want a picture of the tractor!

Here's one from a few months ago.

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I've owned other tractors, but the photos are all analog. (I know, right?)

So I should find them and scan them.

If everything goes well today, I should be able to get a photo of the light bar.

I'll see yours and raise you mine*:

Bigger view:

*Disclaimer: While I don't actually own it, it's mine in that at our club (which does own it) I am the mainttaniner and the only one with the necessary boiler ticket and experience to operate it.

 

[bribrius]

Here's my father's tractor in the back. The pickup with the cap was his. The red truck was either something he was working on for someone or a friend stopping by. It's also blocking the boom. There is a better picture of the tractor but I have to dig around for it. Oh, and that's me picking flowers with my mother.
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nice family photo right there..

 

[limr33 2]

Wow, check out that thing! A tractor with a roof and a chimney!

 

[snerd]

Wow, check out that thing! A tractor with a roof and a chimney!

LOL!! Those really are some cool pieces of history!


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[minicoop1985]

AUGH I'm waiting for a reply from the guy who runs the studio I applied to. THIS IS AGONIZING.

In other news, good morning hosers. It's going to be a nice 30 some degrees.

 

[tirediron]

Wow, check out that thing! A tractor with a roof and a chimney!

Yep! And... it makes lunch too!

 

[Designer]

I'm familiar with Case, of course, but the Sawyer-Massey is a new one on me.

Any relation to Massey-Ferguson?

 

[pixmedic1]

im up, im up!

 

[Designer]

Those big steam tractors are good for cooking lunch and smashing down grass.

Do you ever hook it up to a thresher?

Here in Iowa they have an annual event "Old Thresher's Reunion".

 

[tirediron]

I'm familiar with Case, of course, but the Sawyer-Massey is a new one on me.

Any relation to Massey-Ferguson?

Yes, M-F was a later iteration of Sawyer-Massey.

 

[tirediron]

Those big steam tractors are good for cooking lunch and smashing down grass.

Do you ever hook it up to a thresher?

Here in Iowa they have an annual event "Old Thresher's Reunion".

Yep... those are pictures are from our spring show, but at our fall fair we belt it up to one of our threshers.

 

[bribrius]

Those big steam tractors are good for cooking lunch and smashing down grass.

Do you ever hook it up to a thresher?

Here in Iowa they have an annual event "Old Thresher's Reunion".

Yep... those are pictures are from our spring show, but at our fall fair we belt it up to one of our threshers.

really interesting. thanks for sharing.

 

[otherprof91 32]

I don't intend to skip any important part of the sentence, (at least not on purpose) but when my grandson was learning French, he thought it contained a double negative, and because he had learned to not do that in English, he wondered why it was o.k. in French.

Is all.

I used to teach remedial writing classes in the English department as well as my current department (Modern Languages), so these students were native speakers of English. Sometimes students who are bilingual but would probably have been better off in the ESL classes were placed in those English dept along the native speakers. Most of the teachers were able to handle it just fine, but some teachers just couldn't figure out what to do with students who also spoke another language.

I was scoring exams one semester and another adjunct sitting at the table with me just blurts out, "What is with these ESL students? Can't they learn vocabulary?" I asked him what he meant. "Well, they have the same grammar, why can't they just learn the English words to put in the sentence?"

Dude thought that every language in the world had the same grammar, just different words. I think I did a decent enough job at not being too witheringly sarcastic, but I don't think I was able to entirely keep the "you're a moron" tone out of my voice.

That brings to mind an observation by Mark Twain, somewhere in "A Tramp Abroad." He noticed that foreigners all over the world had a very difficult time understanding what he was saying, and concluded that most foreigners were hard of hearing. He also pointed out that most of us have concluded the same thing, as seen by our repeating ourselves much more loudly when we are not understood by someone who speaks another language. Important Note: This book also includes the essay, "The Awful German Language," which includes a story from German translated literally into English. E.g. (from memory) "The English governess, he fell into the fire. The fire she burned him." If you haven't read that essay, she's there for him to be read!