Rice Farming In South Texas

[pebbles18x]

this wa sa good story

[marquisdejolie]

Thank you!

[Brennna]

Gotta love Woody Guthrie.

Mama looks like a ghost sometimes.

[marquisdejolie]

She does. Especially when she puts her white pancake makeup on to go to church.

[chevkoch]

A silent spring story. Today they try to engineer RoboCrop and call it food. No obvious skin or lung problems now, they're just gradually fucking up our helixes.

[marquisdejolie]

AAACK! Is there no safe food left?

[chevkoch]

Like you said once, they are trying to teach us to feed on cardboard. I mostly cook my own stuff, aiming to reduce the plasticness of my food intake.

[marquisdejolie]

I eat unprocessed every chance I get.

:)

[fehquig]

Better dying through chemistry...

[marquisdejolie]

Even more so these days.

[Homeschooler7]

I'm still sick from the DDT on Kole Farms; which btw, is no more since IKE

[marquisdejolie]

Where was Kole Farms?

[Homeschooler7]

Farm Road 1985 or Whites Ranch Rd west of Hwy 124. I was raised there and my daddy built that house. Our family sold the homestead in the 70s.

[marquisdejolie]

Sorry to hear about your loss.

[NotaTrollTravlin]

I lived next to the fields that they cropped dusted when I was young, not sure what they sprayed but I bet I'd recognize it if I smelled it, you'd be covered with a white stinky dust when they went by.

Then you'd swim in the irrigation canals with all the toxic run offs

(I wonder if I glow in a black light)

[marquisdejolie]

Bugs don't bother you, do they?

:)

[texolot]

Now this was a well produced/edited film (not a campy catch-phrase "video"). Just great!

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks! I'll make more.

:)

[TheTimeOutChair]

I love how you used that propaganda short as a way for the idea to look even worse. Five stars!

[marquisdejolie]

Five thanks!

[katalina2007]

Rice farming sounded so DIFFICULT :( TOo bad about your mom's relatives LUNGS! Breathing in all those toxcins!

[marquisdejolie]

When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike behind the city truck spraying DDT through the streets of Marshall. Hope I make it to 63!

[katalina2007]

Hmmm--well you DID expose yourself to DDT..I hope you make it to 63, too!!

[marquisdejolie]

Ahyup, once a week during mosquito season I was biking in the DDT cloud.

[katalina2007]

YIKES! Good thing it wasn't EVERYDAY, though....I think you have a chance of making it...Your poor relatives being out in those rice fields WITH the DDT everyday, they didn't have much of a chance :(

[marquisdejolie]

I summered down there once for school break when I was a kid. They had me shootin' canal rats all summer.

[Poetivity]

I cannot tell you how much I love these videos. I wish I had done this with my grandmother and my mother. What a treasure you make for your posterity here! I'm so grateful you are sharing.

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks! Tell your friends. I need more comments like that (and views) to feel validated.

:)

[edenbainbridge]

xoexo

[marquisdejolie]

xoexo back. :)

[AerocK]

Barnstorming looks fun.

[marquisdejolie]

It does.

[MadBadVoodo]

Interesting stuff man! I hope 2 see 63!

Five Stars!

[marquisdejolie]

Mom comes from a family that usually lives well into their 90s, so 63 is still a youngster.

:)

[lazymornings]

They had it rough in a different way back then,life was straight froward but hard work it seems.

Intresting story,a true record of a different time.

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks. I'll make more. :)