The End of an Era
I know I’ve showed you this photo several times. I have a really good reason for pulling it out today. One better than “it is flipping hot out and I need to remember the cold of a Minnesota winter.”
You see, today, back at the farm, they are holding a dairy liquidation auction. For a while there will still be heifers on the farm, but all milking cows and those due to calf in the next 90 days are going up on the auction block. All the fancy milking equipment that went into a new barn that was built while I was away at college is is going too.
I can only imagine what emotions my sister is going through. She was always more active with the dairy than I was. She took pictures of the very first milking in the new barn and today is taking pictures of the last. She milked in it herself many years. I never did much more than occasionally feed calves for ten cents a piece.
But I have to say, today is a lot harder than I imagined it would be — and I’m not even there to witness it! Perhaps that is making it worse. I can’t say for sure.
Regardless, today is a rough day for all of my family I am certain. If you have a spare moment and some positive energy to send our way, I’m pretty sure we could all use it.
