After 9 loooonnnnnggggg months, we are finally the owners of this 1981(ish) 5088 International tractor!! I have been waiting to blog about this since the beginning of March! Then it was like pulling teeth to get Matt to move it so we could take this picture with OUR tractor. I am so proud of us!
This picture is a bit deceiving! Matt was doing a cartwheel and I was kicking my leg up(whoo hoo), and it JUST looks like I'm kicking his tushy!
We wanted to get a picture of both of us doing a cartwheel, but figured that would not end up the way we wanted it to, so I'm up against the tire and he's doing a cartwheel! (I was laughing at this point, and very shortly after this, I landed on my HEAD!)
Then we changed positions! We both need to work on keeping our legs straight when doing a cartwheel, or neither one of us is looking at a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics!Gramps heard us outside laughing, and drove over to check out all the commotion, and he snapped the last two picture. And the good tractor salesman that he is, he told Matt to come over to the shop tomorrow, he has a new tractor to show him! I said, "NO NO NO!"
I was going to try to put this post to a song, but I'm not computer savvy enough, or patient enough to do this. Next time you hear the song "International Harvester" by Craig Morgan, you can think of us! All the other tractor songs are about the green kind! Here's a bit of the song for you!
I'm the son of a 3rd generation farmer
been married 10 years to the farmers daughter
I'm a God fearin', hard workin' combine driver
hoggin' up the road with my p-p-plower
Chug-a lug-a-luggin 5 mph
on my INTERNATIONAL harvester
P.S. I think that is one sexy tractor!
P.S.S. One step closer to "living like no one else!"
