Can it really be you?

On our vacation, we went through Carthage, Mo. By husband is obsessed with John Deere stuff. Anything John Deere. We even got pulled away from our wedding in a manure spreader (John Deere of course). Bill's brother Howard is about as bad. We are on the main street and there is a flying manure spreader in the air on a big pole. Below are the words "crapduster" - Lowell Davis. While my husband is sitting in the car taking pictures, an old truck comes by with the words, "FOX FIRE FARMS, Red Oak, Missoura" (with an a) Bill recognizes all of this and gets out and asks the man, "Are you Lowell Davis?" He replied, "What's left of him." Well, he has created a lot of John Deere stuff for Ertyl and Bill had several magazines at home with his picture. He invited out to his little town. He has built a town called Red Oak and brought buildings in and refurbished them. So, on the way to his town, Bill calls his brother Howard to rub it in. Howard has his entire Christmas village. Howard told us he had gone crazy and burned his studio years ago. So, all the way out to Red Oak, I am freaking out thinking we are following a crazy man and he is going to harm us. Well, he ended up telling us his life story and he said he did loose it for awhile and burn up his studio. He invited us into his home and we just had a wonderful visit. Bill thought it was awesome, and I must admit it was a pretty cool experience. If you google his name, you can read all about him.