Posted on 02/09/2008 12:54:43 PM PST by DeLaine
Sonya Rinker was looking for a guy: someone who was kind, respectful and had a special place in his heart ... for tractors. She wanted a man who could share the thrill of a good tractor-pull show, who could see beauty in a shiny row of green and yellow of John Deere tractors.
She didn't know that somewhere along these rolling Pennsylvania hills, there was such a man, a shy guy named Tom with two vintage Deere tractors. He had been looking for a gal, someone who'd put up with his milking cows at 3 a.m. and his six-day work weeks.
Sonya Rinker and Tom Henisee lived 57 miles apart when they both signed up for an online matchmaking service designed to link up people just like them -- farmers and others who know their way around a barn and a milking machine.
Playing the dating game isn't easy in rural America: Tens of thousands of twentysomethings have moved out in recent decades, small towns have shrunk, younger farmers have become a dwindling commodity. Or to put it another way ... there's a lot of land and not that many people.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
I agree, thanks for posting.
I love hearing usual love stories and that is just a great one too...
Thanks for sharing
I thought this was a perfect intro to the week of Valentine’s Day. For all you romantic people out there. I’m not much on the made up Hallmark holiday, but I am a hopeless romantic.
I suppose...
C’mon Nully. The tractor pull of luuuuuuv :D
.."I was just waiting for the Lord to dump somebody in my lap."
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