Life on the farm

[Doofy]

I remember eating "Mud Pies" my sister and her friends concocted. To this day, I rarely get sick.

 

[ovrszd]

:laughing::laughing::laughing: I wouldn't be a bit surprised. Got our priming water from the creek the cattle drank out of; took a bath once a week whether we needed it or not; washed our hands occasionally; walked and played in the barnyard, chicken house; drank milk not pasturized and sometimes straight from the teat; ate all kinds of wild game; Dad hung rabbits from the ceiling of the back porch in the Winter; rode in the same car, lived in the same house with cigarette smoke; and most kids I knew went barefoot in the Summer.

Funny you should mention it, but there is a school of thought that completely supports what you said...we're "too clean" to build up our immune systems.

Are you sure we aren't Brothers? I could have written your paragraph!!!!

 

[ovrszd]

Me and my pet Racoon. Circa 1959 or 60.

 

[ovrszd]

Supper. Caught by hand.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Great pics y'all.

 

[Big Barn]

Awesome pics Richard!

 

[grsthegreat]

I too grew up around animals. Would go ride my horse and eat a sandwich with horse dirty hands. I never get sick. Never get flu. No covid either. Todays kids are too over sanitized.

 

[ultrarunner]

Are you sure we aren't Brothers? I could have written your paragraph!!!!

Sounds like Mom's life on the farm... super healthy all her life and running marathons still at age 75 but Alzheimer's now age 86

A little off but my 3 nieces have been competitive year round swimming starting age 4... summer and winter outside pool... extremely healthy.

Their classmates all bundled up and super sanitized are always sick...

I do believe lifestyle environment is a huge factor...

Farmer Grandparents all lived into 90's... always active just a little slower... early to bed and early to rise on a Dairy Farm.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Supper. Caught by hand.



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I'd love to have that truck...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Are you sure we aren't Brothers? I could have written your paragraph!!!!

Could be; I spent several years of my youth in Pierce City Missouri...and my Dad got around quite a bit...You ever been to Yonkersville?