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Grow Your Own

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     Don't ask me why but I picked up a book on tractors.  Never owned one, no idea how to operate one, and no idea why the book attracted me like...well, like a tractor beam.  Maybe it was title: From John Deere to Lamborghini.  Wait, what??  Or maybe it was that naive thought of spending my later years in the country, grow a few veggies, chat with the nearest farmer ten miles down the road, hang out a Trump 2028 flag.  Okay, snap out of it.  Who was I kidding?  First of all, I'd starve, or worse if that pump to the well broke or that "cute" horse I bought for a song and a dance was one mean mare ready for the pasture and was having no part of my city-boy antics.  But then look at those tires.  Wait, I'm not being misogynistic because I still am talking about tractors here.  But what's with that younger, slimmer, no baggy eyelids Trump posing with a young Army cadet in the Oval Office?  Well I had to get your attent...