Mules/fuels

So it’s come to this.

The skyrocketing prices of gas and diesel are forcing some farmers to park their tractors.

Instead of gas-n-go, they are doing what their grandpas did. They are hitching up a team of mules and working their fields the old-fashioned way.

One farmer who has made the switch is T.R. Raymond of McMinnville, Tenn.

"This fuel’s so high, you can’t afford it," he said. "We can feed these mules cheaper than we can buy fuel. That’s the truth."

I feel for you, T.R. Farming is hard enough. Now you have to dodge fresh manure piles while working the south 40.

T.R.’s brother Raymond even said of the mules, "It’s the way of the future."

Uh, actually, Raymond, isn’t that the way of the past?

Whatever. Didn’t someone once say, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”?