First off I want to say I liked how this author phrased his words and was able to put his working experience into real life situations. This story got my attention and I'm sure it got many other people's too. I had no idea what to expect when I first started reading this; I thought the author was just going to talk about how hard it is to work/live on a farm and that it wasn't what he expected at all. So I'm glad you were able to get a life long experience out of all of this and shared it to us, because I too have an idea of what it's like to live on a farm because my dad has one of his own (just not as big and productive as the one you described) but I still learn a lot on the farm.