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- I own 16 acres of a 40 acre field
that my grandfather bought back before my mother was born.
My husband and I wanted to farm.
He was a city boy, but when we moved out here, he said,
he just felt like he was at home.
And his blood pressure lowered
every time we drive down the dirt road.
Sometimes we would have eight acres of sunflowers,
plant millet and stuff like that for the deer.
So we always farmed half of it and had cows
and horses on the other half.
My husband got sick and went into the hospital.
And while he was in the hospital,
he got an infectious disease and it took about a year
to wear him down, and he finally passed away
from due to the illness.
While he was sick,
I had to devote all my time to helping him.
The only way that I had to pay some bills
and maintain the property was I traded his tractor
and sold his tractor.
I came across the contest on one
Successful Farming magazine.
There was a article that said,
how would you like to win a tractor or something?
I was like, hey, I need a tractor.
I looked at all the qualifications and I said,
oh, I can do that.
So I went back and wrote a little story
and uploaded the picture.
And I was like, I never win anything.
When I first got my email that I had won the tractor,
I thought it was somebody playing a joke on me.
I come home and tell my mom, I think I won a tractor.
So she said, no, it's a hoax.
I said no, no I really won.
And so I called Successful Farming back
and I said, is this real?
Did I really win?
She's like, yes, I'm telling you that you won.
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So I've been on a tractor before.
It's been a while.
So I made her buddy parked down there
so I wouldn't run into their cars when I got on it
and started driving.
- She has gone through a lot.
And this is like a blessing for her right now.
She really needs this to help keep up her land.
And she is just, she couldn't sleep,
yeah she was nervous.
- She was jumping off the couch.
- Yeah, so I was like,
okay, they'll be here, they'll be here.
- Right up to the front door.
It's so pretty.
When I saw it come down the road and around the corner,
it was so beautiful, it was white and shiny.
I felt that can't be mine, but it is.
Thank you.
My tractor will help me maintain my property,
fix it up and maintain it,
like I would like to have it looking.
Sounds good.
I would like to have a gazebo,
put it around the pond somewhere.
I don't wanna build a pier,
so I've gotta build some land up, do a little garden,
and then I've got some holes to fill in.
Maybe a food plot, 'cause I do like to hunt.
My Bobcat tractor is so easy to drive.
It's so smooth, the seat is so soft and bouncy,
I love it.
I would like to tell Bobcat,
thank you so very much for the opportunity
to win this tractor,
that it's really going to change my life and the way we live
out here on this property for my whole entire family.