Been a While! Wanted to Share Something a Little Different 🚜🍊

Mountainman

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Hey everyone!

I know I haven't been around here nearly as much as I used to be. I've still been involved with tractors and parts, but over the past several months, Angel and I have been putting a lot of our time and energy into building something called Inspiromia.

It's a project centered around kindness, Love, personal discovery, and helping people recognize their own worth. It's become a pretty big part of our lives, and we're excited about where it's heading.

But I guess you can take the guy away from the tractors, but you can't take the tractors out of the guy! 😂

One of the things we've been working on is a children's book called Little Orange's Big Adventures: You Don't Have to Be Big to Matter.

And yes, the main character is a little orange tractor!

It's a story about friendship, kindness, helping others, and discovering that you don't have to be the biggest or strongest to make a difference.

After all these years of working on tractors, tearing them apart, putting them back together, and talking tractors with folks like you, it's pretty neat to see one become the main character in a children's book.

I'm happy to say that Little Orange is officially published and available on Amazon! It's our first children's book, and we're hoping there will be many more adventures to come.
I thought some of you might get a kick out of it, especially those of you with kids or grandkids who love tractors.

Here's the link if you'd like to take a look:


Anyway, I just wanted to pop in, say hello, and share a little of what we've been up to.

Hope everyone is doing well and keeping those orange tractors running!

Daryl
Inspiromia.com
 
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GeoHorn

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Absolutely Gorgeous Illustrations ! I’m impressed! (I’m certain my granddaughter will Love it also!)

I’d encourage a bit more personality development into the characters in order to endear them. The storyline is good, but mostly told in past-tense, which lacks anticipation.

I felt that a young imagination would be better inspired with more primary character-development. “Little Orange” , Max, and the other characters didn’t automatically endear themselves due to scant background development. (The character-introductory page is certainly adequate for an adult, but is completely lacking for a young audience, and the vocabulary is undeveloped for those ages, in my opinion.)

(“he gave his engine a cheerful rumble”…. might be imaginatively illustrated with some audible “Putt-Putt-RATTLE-POP….- huum-mmmMMMMM….)



I hope my amateurish book-review is accepted in the spirit intended. Good luck with this project. (I’m ordering a copy. LOVE the illustrations!)
 
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OP's book must chronicle the exploits of a "B" series tractor.

BX series wouldn't accomplish half of the protagonist's feats.




Unless it was grass cutting. BX is grass cutting champion.
 
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Mountainman

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OP's book must chronicle the exploits of a "B" series tractor.

BX series wouldn't accomplish half of the protagonist's feats.




Unless it was grass cutting. BX is grass cutting champion.
You are correct I modeled it after the B series. My original plan was to do a series on the most popular B models but never could get a response from Kubota Legal team so i just went my own way. Turned out beautiful. Thank you