What were YOU Doing in the 80s?

 Dig out your neon, your teased dos, your pointy shoes and your vinyl! We're going back to the 80s! 

That was on the invitation from Poetikat to do an 80s Retro Blog Post today.

I gotta say -- my 80s weren't like that. We were in full back-to-the-land mode -- milking, gardening, raising a crop of tobacco every year, and making use of child labor.  The two young uns below are my son Ethan and my nephew Andrew. They are helping to pull tobacco plants from the seed bed for us to set out in the field. It would be sometime in June.  This picture and the next are probably circa 1979 but we were still doing this in the 80s.

 

And this below is a letter from me to my grandparents (whom I called 'Ba' and 'Hudy') back in Tampa, telling them something about our life and how we harvest the tobacco.

And this last picture would be in August or September. The harvested tobacco is on the truck, ready to be hung in the barn. Justin is helping by picking up loose tobacco leaves.

Nope, no neon, no teased dos (John's hair is naturally curly), and absolutely no pointy shoes. We did have vinyl records back at the house.

And I did love our 80s.