Kliban by B. Kliban for June 08, 2022

Careful with the mix. Those diesel hogs can runaway.

Shouldn’t the smoke be coming from the exhaust ports?

Some can be particularly cranky at that hour.

And here I thought they were self starters….

I used to do that with the cat. You know, wind him up.

So THAT’S how it’s done…

He found the task rewarding in a quiet sort of way.

I get started each morn by being slapped left and right and left and right and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGyOaCXr8Lw

Hope pigs & cows turn over faster than a cold Model T Ford!

Could be worse. The starter could be located elsewhere.

I start my morning with bacon, eggs and milk too.

I had a Fiat like that in ND.

This is a cute reversal of the usual way of things on a farm, where the animals start the farmer with their hungry sounds.

I worked on a tobacco farm for two summers as a teenager. If I am never awakened by the sound of a tractor engine at 5:00 a.m., it will be decades too soon. The farmer would drive over in the tractor to wake me up, then go back into the warm house and have coffee. My first job of the day was to wake everyone else up. You can only imagine how popular I was.

Those two summers gave me a great respect for the arduous world of the manual laborer and gave me a great hankering to get educated enough to have an indoor job. :) :) :)

Also, I will NEVER smoke.