He?s an old-time Yankee farmer.

When you have these fluctuations in temperatures and heavy rainfalls, it really messes the farmer up.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Now food is being shipped in from far away. Silas knew that and always tried to support people starting young farms.