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Gradyville/Cool Springs Creek: June 25, 2014 report -Settling in

A day of Agriculture, Technology, Great Neighbors and new Acquaintances - Wednesday was a great local agricultural themed day in our new domain with help from neighbors and the great folks at the Farm Service Agency and NCRS and Adair County Extension Office and how a borrowed tiller turned garden soil in consistency of Mamaw's nanner puddin'
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By Guy Babin
Cool Springs Creek/Gradyville Scribe

I've always enjoyed technology and certainly people too. Today they meshed like peas and carrots to steal from Forrest.

An aside to my friend Jim Whitehurst:
It's us, we interloping Babins who stole your high-speed low drag, super duper, PTO driven, tiller today. Wow! As the accompanying pictures show, it's turned our freshly turned veggie bed from raw clumps into smoothness reminicient of Mamaw's nanner puddin'.
We've only met the Whitehursts a couple of weeks ago, but Jim graciously offered the implement like he'd known us forever.



Credit also goes to another great neighbor, Betsy and Gary Fausnaugh. We stole their 2-bottom. Betsy gave us a dozen.5 of her yard eggs to boot . . . yum yum.

From meeting the charming and very helpful Angela at the FSA (Farm Service Agency) office in Columbia, to showing up unanounced and sitting down with Jason who graciously led us through the NCRS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) process, to checking in with Nick Roy at the Adair County Extension office, to a great breakfast shared with Ed this morning; it was a great local agricultural themed day in our new domain.

As you can see from the accompanying photos the garden is evolving. With hard work and continued help from friends, we look forward to nurturing both.

- GUY
from the Cool Springs Creek suburb of Gradyville, KY

P.S. I am quite sure Jim Whitehurst's fancy tillin' mo-chine matches my old IH 424 much better than either of his beloved Masseys - just sayin....


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With tacit consent help of neighbors, garden is coming along



2014-06-26 - Cool Springs Creek, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Guy Babin. Self-described Interlopers, Guy & Aline put Jim Whitehurst's tiller to good use getting the garden plot ready on Wednesday. Guy describes the prepared soil as reminiscent of the consistency of Mamaw's banner puddin'.
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Closer view of purloined-with-permission tiller



2014-06-26 - Cool Springs Creek, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Guy Babin. When Jim Whitehurst's prized super duper tiller is returned busloads of Canadian Tourists may drive by and see only the shovel & pitchfork, and marvel at the industry of the primitive natives, who are able, through pure sweat, perserverance, and intuitive ingenility, transform a large plot into garden spot - never realizing that it was done with a marvel of the Industrial Age. Native and Born Again Adair Countians will realize it's the Gradyville Way - good neighbors, the good Lord, and the County Agent and eager newcomers working together in a little piece of Adair County paradise. But even though all chapters of Hezekiah clearly proscribe the sin of coveting, Guy Babin confesses: "I am quite sure Jim Whitehurst's fancy tillin' mo-chine matches my old IH 424 much better than either of his beloved Masseys - just sayin' . . . '
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