Ruby Tuesday – Finding a Car at the Boat Show

Saturday son and I went to the Tulsa Boat Show at the County Fairgrounds. I’m not in the market for a boat,  I just like checking them out. Plus generally they have lots of RV’s and trailers to check out.
Chevrolet Camaro

This beautiful Camaro was on display. I love these cars. I’d never buy one though. Can you imagine the insurance. If you want to buy it for me though I’d spring for the insurance.

Ruby Tuesday 2

Speaking of cars, did you watch the Super Bowl? (Wow I’m a silver tongued devil. How is that for a smooth transition?) I  loved the Dodge Ram Truck Commercial featuring the voice of Paul Harvey. I think it may be the best commercial that I have ever seen.

The text is as follows

So God Made a Farmer
And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the field, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the township board.” So God made a farmer.
“I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle a calf and yet gentle enough to cradle his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait for lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure to come back real soon and mean it.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year,’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from an ash tree, shoe a horse, who can fix a harness with hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who, during planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, up in another 72 hours.” So God made a farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place. So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to help a newborn calf begin to suckle and tend the pink-comb pullets, who will stop his mower in an instant to avoid the nest of meadowlarks.”
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, brake, disk, plow, plant, strain the milk, replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with an eight mile drive to church. Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh and then reply with smiling eyes when his family says that they are proud of what Dad does. “So God made a farmer.”

There was nobody like Paul Harvey!

17 thoughts on “Ruby Tuesday – Finding a Car at the Boat Show

  1. Sylvia K

    No, I didn’t watch either — but then I rarely ever even turn my TV on????? Let alone watch an entire program! Great post for the day though!!! Hope you have a great week!

  2. Ellen

    I agree, that was one of the best commercials ever, the still photographs were amazing. As a horse lover, I thought the Budweiser Clydesdale commercial was very touching also.

  3. DrillerAA09

    If you think the insurance on this Camaro is high, just imagine the ZL1 with the 580 HP supercharged engine under the hood and a base price of only $54,340.

  4. Leedslass

    All I know about the Superbowl is a comment I heard on the radio that each commercial cost minimum £3 million pounds! The Yorkshire lass in me says “more money than sense”!!

  5. Jackie

    Oh Yogi I love that red Mustang but that commercial was truly wonderful!

    I was always a Paul Harvey fan. …Now for the rest of the story…

    I miss that! Thanks for the memories and thanks for posting this commercial. I didn’t watch the super bowl.

    I hope you have a good day and a wonderful week!

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