When I was 13 years old my dad worked 8 hour shifts on the gas wells: midnight to 8 am, 8 to 4 and 4 to midnight. My brother was away at college so I had a lot of responsibility on the farm. Every Third week I got up at 5:00 am and milked 25 cows, then fed the calves, chickens, and pigs and then washed the milkers. I washed up and ate breakfast at 7:00 and then set the milk cans out for the milk truck and got on the bus at7:20.
The next week when dad had the 8 to 4 shift he did the milking morning and evening and I did the feeding and washed the milkers. When dad worked 4 to midnight, I came home from school at 4:20 and changed clothes and started milking at 5:00 pm. We ate supper at 6:00 pm and I was usually in bed by 8:30.
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