The majesty of the combine harvester. Oh, and a legitimately bionic cat, too.

This is one of my daughter's favorite books. 

MY FIRST FARM BOARD BOOK

And it's great.  It has terrific photographs of cows and pigs and horses and even a big red tractor.  Just the kinds of farm paraphernalia that I would want introduced to my seventeen-month old.

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And then I came upon this page:

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The combine harvester?

In a book entitled MY FIRST FARM BOARD BOOK?

Really?  The authors of this book decided to go with a combine harvester, piece of farm machinery that my wife...

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Published on July 20, 2010 20:05
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message 1: by Gloria (new)

Gloria Matt, this totally made me laugh. There's a combine harvester (although, here we just call them combines), not 20 yards from my back door. :) Husband just got done harvesting the wheat crop with it. :)
Ubiquitous, indeed.


message 2: by Matthew (new)

Matthew Dicks Perhaps my daughter has a future as a wheat farmer...


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