Saturday, May 17, 2025
Time: 3:30 PM
Song: Do You Remember These?
Artist: The Statler Brothers
Mode of Consumption: Music playing at AJ’s Garden Tractor Jamboree
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5chgh1VjeoIaL5qqwz3ZqK?si=77bb8ff973974cfc
My brother-in-law, Andy, has hosted this gathering of Garden Tractor enthusiasts for fifteen years. Jodi and I have gone every year, helping in various capacities. Jodi snpas pictures, takes orders at the food stand, and anything else that pops up. I’ve worked the admission gate, held cards during poker runs, and helped with cleanup. We both have helped make rope.
It’s been a show that’s seen about every type of weather. Flurries of snow. Torrents of rain. Cold. Heat. Sunshine. Clouds. This year, it was wind. Consistent gusts, probably thirty-miles-per hour.
It’s a show that brings back memories of Andy and Jodi’s father, Lee. He was made for such events. A social person, Lee could strike up a conversation with anyone there whether he’d known them his entire life or just met them two-minutes earlier.
The show was winding down today. A group of us sat around a table outside of Andy’s woodworking shop. The wind had eased a tad, and the sun was out. Not perfect, but pretty nice out compared to other years.
Somehow, we got on a story of Lee trying to order strawberry ice cream at Culvers. See, Culvers will either give you strawberries mixed into the vanilla ice cream, or they will just put strawberries on top of the ice cream. He couldn’t understand what they were asking if he wanted them mixed in or on top.
“I just want strawberry ice cream!” he exclaimed to the young lady behind the counter.
We like that story, it brings a smile to our faces, and wish he were still here to make more memories. But he’s never far from our minds on days like today.
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