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Don Dieken.
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DON DIEKEN
Lyon County, February 2021
Don Dieken’s machine sheds in Little Rock feature several dozen tractors from different manufacturers in various shades of green, red and even some orange. He started collecting more than 50 years ago.
His oldest tractor is a 1934 John Deere “fourbolt” B, which was introduced in the depths of the Great Depression as a two-thirds scale model of the John Deere A. He likes all colors of tractors. “I started collecting with John Deere’s and then started tractor-pulling with Oliver’s. Meanwhile, I bought some Internationals, too.” His growing car collection includes a 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1, 1978 Pontiac Trans Am and 2000 Plymouth Prowler.
Don started farming his father’s farmland in 1981 after working at the local grain elevator. He continued farming until age 79. He still owns the farmland.
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There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year, he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.
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One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
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