{"id":4278,"date":"2021-09-05T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2021-09-05T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T18:48:31","slug":"a-day-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=4278","title":{"rendered":"A day in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love a drive in the country, it’s something that we sometimes did when I was a child, just to escape the city. And on this day me and my girlfriends were on a mission, and of course this mission involved shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s really not that far to go, just drive south to the next city, then follow the river, and there you are among the fields. This was a giant field of pumpkins, across the road from a popular farm store. It’s not really an old-time farm stand, it’s more of big business, so it’s an interesting place to shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They had added quite a bit of stuff, since my last visit, like the imported Italian pasta (there were lots of Italians who came to the area to work in the steel mill, and their descendants are still here). There were plenty of baked goods and even tourist souvenirs to be had. And they were roasting green chile in front, so the place smelled great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As this antique tractor has steel wheels, it is probably from the mid 1920’s or possibly early 1930’s. I’m leaning towards the earlier date, because it has a starter crank instead of an electric starter, and the overall primitiveness of design. (I know way more about tractors than I should).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s another farm store, this one also had a cafe, which was quite good. (sorry, I don’t take pictures of my food anymore).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quaint old stuff sets the stage for selling locally made products. It’s a guarantee that we’re out of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And why had we gone south? (aside from the obvious need to shop at the farm stands). Oh yeah, I had won a red ribbon (2nd place) at the state fair, so well done me. After a quick ride on a Ferris Wheel, it was back to town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love a drive in the country, it’s something that we sometimes did when I was a child, just to escape the city. And on this day me and my girlfriends were on a mission, and of course this mission involved shopping. It’s really not that far to go, just drive south to the next … Continue reading A day in the country<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-doings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}