\u201cAlan, you might be interested in the steam engine show that is being organized\u2026old \u00a0things that really work\u2026holding it on a farm not far from here.\u201d<\/p>\n
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And that began a 50 year fascination with old machines. See the Picture of my Uncle Frank Freeman holding steering wheel of a 1907 car. When I think about my life I realize that much of my time was spent at the Freeman farms\u2026a good deal of it with Uncle Frank and Aunt Lucinda. \u00a0I do not know how they made a living\u2026but it must have been tough. \u00a0 \u00a0The farm was built on a series of gravel hills with a giant pond in the centre. \u00a0Hardly good land. They sold cream to the creamery and I suppose pigs and cattle to the meat packers. \u00a0But it must have been tough. \u00a0Their son, my cousin Ted Freeman, became quite a businessman owning his own farm and later a stable making manufacturing plant.<\/p>\n
Our lives intersected often. We had a lot of good times together\u2026and one bad time when I shared a BB gun with my brother and did \u00a0a \u00a0lot of \u00a0damage \u00a0to barn windows and \u00a0the McEchern truck windshield. \u00a0 We were passengers in George Johnson\u2019s old Model T car and I was firing BB\u2019s left and right not believing they went very far. \u00a0Later, when the bills came in, I was shocked that a BB gun had that power. \u00a0 Even shot my brother in the ass to test the impact. \u00a0Paid the people affected . \u00a0I think I even paid for windows \u00a0I did not bust once word got around I was a juvenile delinquent that needed a drubbing. \u00a0I kept my cap low over my ears for years. \u00a0Eric had misgivings about his older brother after that incident. Dad smashed the gun against a tree I think\u2026maybe not\u2026but it disappeared. \u00a0Dad was \u00a0never a good example. \u00a0He bought the gun for us one Christmas\u2026paid \u00a0$1 down payment and left rest of payments to us. \u00a0Then he proceeded to act like a WW 2 sniper targeting Tom Cats on our back fence since Tinker was in heat again. \u00a0Fine example dad was, people often thought. \u00a0 Alan must be a chip of the old block, was whispered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Shot Eric in the ass with that BB gun. \u00a0Sorry about that. alan skeoch march 2018 \u201cAlan, you might be interested in the steam engine show that is being organized\u2026old \u00a0things that really work\u2026holding it on a farm not far from here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}