SneezingCow.com » massey-ferguson http://sneezingcow.com Home of Michael Perry - Author, Humorist, Singer/Songwriter, Amateur Pig Farmer Fri, 25 May 2012 17:33:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Wisconsin Trails Tractor Tale http://sneezingcow.com/2011/05/19/wisconsin-trails-tractor-tale/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wisconsin-trails-tractor-tale http://sneezingcow.com/2011/05/19/wisconsin-trails-tractor-tale/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 09:29:16 +0000 MikePerry http://sneezingcow.com/?p=8220 Continue reading →]]>

The latest issue of Wisconsin Trails magazine is out. I’m honored that the “My Wisconsin” section contains an essay I wrote about my Dad’s first tractor, a hard-working Massey-Ferguson 135. The essay is excerpted from My First Tractor, a wonderful collection available from Voyageur Press.

The May/June issue also includes articles about musky fishing, dirt-track racing, fine dining in Monticello, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, and a “Last Word” essay by my mentor and one of those folks on my “without-whom” list, John Hildebrand. John’s book Mapping the Farm is tremendous (the section on the bull overdosing on apples is worth the price alone), and his A Northern Front deeply influenced my evolving feelings about sense of place.

]]> 0 Ring, Ring http://sneezingcow.com/2009/03/05/ring-ring/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ring-ring http://sneezingcow.com/2009/03/05/ring-ring/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:00:02 +0000 MikePerry http://sneezingcow.com/?p=963 Continue reading →]]> Today I was listening to Neil Diamond.  Love at the Greek.  My Neil Diamond habit is no secret — I wrote about it in Truck: A Love Story.  But today I was reminded of how I used to strap the boombox to the back of my Dad’s Massey-Ferguson 135 and listen to this album on cassette while cutting hay.  I’d plug in a pair of gigantic 1970s headphones and crank the volume so I could hear the music over the noise of the tractor.  And I wonder why I have tinnitus.

]]> 0 The Clodhopper Report, “Tractor” http://sneezingcow.com/2009/02/04/the-clodhopper-report-tractor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-clodhopper-report-tractor http://sneezingcow.com/2009/02/04/the-clodhopper-report-tractor/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:35:00 +0000 alissa http://sneezingcow.com/?p=388

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