Danny's Doting(s)

  So, it really happened, Debbie. You Retired. And, there's no hiding it: I'm a mess. You know when something really, really terrible looms in your future, and dread comes with it, and yet when that actual time finally arrives, it was even WORSE than you imagined it? Maybe you don't, but that's how your Graduating away from Import Tractor Parts has profoundly impacted and affected me. Yes, you have a Graduate Degree in tractor parts. Not merely Honourary; Hands on Practical: Debbie Giberson, BP. (Bachelor of Parts). I don't know what good it is, but there it is anyway. The Time went so fast. Oh, so fast. And the day I dreaded so much just rocketed up on me like a jet-powered bomb and blew up all over me. I could hardly rasp out a word to you this final week of our working time together because the precious remaining Minutes were ticking by, eaten up by the clock in its relentless, insatiable, heartless manner. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock... How can I be so sad f...

  These verses have really been on my mind. They just don't jive with what we have been told all of our lives. Revelation 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. How is that even possible when the stars are supposed to be so stupendously massive and the Earth so miniscule-y tiny? Not "a star"; "the stars". That sounds like all of them. How do multitudes of ginormous stars share space on one tiny little nothing of a planet? The answer is they can't. Not the type we are told they are. But the almost substance-less, shimmering and flickering little pinpoints of light like illuminated leaves we can now see out of high-zoom cameras can. Just like the ones shown in artistic renderings of the Firmament. " even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind " It is physical, and has form and substance so it can be shaken. How do you sh...

  Style is something that comes and goes. Almost every decade has its own. Clothing, appliances, cars, houses, you name it. Some decades really stuck out in their memorable style; the Fabulous Fifties, for example. Styling can be rehashed in a what's old is new again manner. By 1963, Allis Chalmers tractors were looking a little dated. Something... just wasn't right. The D10 to D19 tractors looked a little drab by this time. The 1960's were a decade of lean speed and power, and the polite, friendly look of the D10, D12, D14, D15, D17, and the industry's first turbocharged tractor, the D19, just weren't dynamic enough. A restyle was in order to bring them up to date. And, boy oh boy, did they ever get it.  The company flagship, the D21, or Big D or Big Ace, as they were often referred to, was a total departure in styling, as sometimes the top model of the line was, such as the Ford 6000, or the John Deere 8010, or the Case 1200 Traction King. The D21 looked like noth...