Using excerpts from Richard Quaday's twenty-year span of weekly newspaper columns, this book traces life on the Quaday Minnesota family farm from 1938 through the Great Depression years to 2008. The stories and descriptions paint Dick's personal history of farming small acreage with horsepower up to working hundreds of acres with self-propelled machinery. Packed with humor and down-home wisdom, this story portrays a way of life that vanished with the growth of modern agriculture.