Cleaning the udders of muddy cows in the spring...putting up with temperamental cows who liked to kick, being stampeded and nearly trampled upon by hungry hogs you were trying to feed, castrating squirming pigs who squealed at the top of their lungs...all these things were the unpleasant necessities associated with farm work in my youth. Field work was much more pleasant and, for the most part, even enjoyable. Plants were generally predictable and seldom uncooperative, the dirt of the field was much cleaner than the manure of the barnyard, and the open field less confining than the barn or the hog pen..."

Paul has a unique gift for storytelling.Throughout this book along the historical backdrop of the 1930's, Paul brings us back to that place in North Central Iowa, into the world of a young boy, and later, a high school student.His delightful recollections are a pleasure to read and cultivate a sense of appreciation for what our forefathers experienced in their lives during those special times.