[js1138]

Actually my father was an M.D., but he grew up on a farm and had difficulty giving it up.

[b_sharp]

Living on the prairies I got quite a mix of experiences. I was born in and lived most of my life in a city of about 150,000 people, surrounded by grain farms. When I was 10 -12 I lived with my grandparents on the edge of a town of about 600 people where most of my friends and all of my relatives in the area were farmers. As a teenager of 17 I moved up to my mother's acreage for a year.

I believe I got the best of both worlds (except for the pig barn cleanup I had to do on my mother's acreage,...ewww).

[b_sharp]

My father was a lowly accountant who hated farms.

I've gotta run for the night. Things to do, chickens to kill, you know,...stuff.