Attribution: Bob Embleton
Image: Milk churns placed on a stand for
collection from small farms by lorries in
the olden days. Now purely ornamental. (here)
11 of 12 given words:
churn whirring splatter chat smirk trim left chisel dig tin lemon
Milking by hand tediously
Used to be stored in milk churns
To be picked up later by lorry
Off to the market in the gallons
Now it is the faint whirring
of the suction milking machine
No splatter and very clean
Easy chats with cows smirking
Milking time considerably trimmed
Per cow increased to 12 gallons a day
Left farmers time with other things
To chisel around to dig whichever way
Tin tankard of a beer or a lemon drink
The order of the day upon finishing
For Brenda's Sunday Whirl Wordle #255 and
Marian's The Tuesday Platform at Real Toads
Those machines sure help out. Not sure the cows like them though. But blah to actually milking them.
ReplyDeleteSomething most of us know very little about. Thanks
ReplyDeleteA peaceful scene well described, Hank.
ReplyDeleteMy Grandpa was a dairy farmer...this puts me back in the stalls:)
ReplyDeleteah yes modernization and technology now holding hands in its futuristic love affair
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Machines sure saves the farmers much work, Great subject and very well written Hank.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
Ah a nice nod to the really not so distant past.
ReplyDeleteThere is something gained, but also lost in that change to machines.
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