I normally try my hardest not to pass on forwards I get via email…but I was just discussing with a friend of mine the other day what it’s like to really be a farm wife.
To help explain it this is what I sent her…
(This was actually much much longer, so I shortened it up a bit for more “light” reading.)
(This was actually much much longer, so I shortened it up a bit for more “light” reading.)
You Might Be a Farmer’s Wife…
- If your name is taped to the side of a cakepan:
- If you call the implement dealer and he recognizes your voice:
- If the vet’s number is on the speed dial of your phone:
- If your second vehicle is still a pickup:
- If your husband has ever used field equipment to maintain your yard:
- If you’re in the habit of buying foodstuffs in bulk:
- If the word “auction” makes you tingle:
- If “picking rock” is considered a chance to get out of the house:
- If “a little bit of lunch” involves 6 courses and a dessert made from scratch:
- If the “fresh ingredients” your recipe calls for reminds you to do the chores:
- If taking lunch to the field is as close as you get to a picnic:
- If that pail with a hole in it is a flowerpot in the making:
- If your rock garden was hand-picked:
- If you can mend a pair of pants and the fence that ripped them:
- If you’re on the lookout for new uses for “Jell-O”:
- If the shopping list in your purse includes the sizes of filters, tires, overalls, chains, belts, lights, cables, spark plugs or shotgun shells:
- If “Farm”, “Ranch”, “Country”, “Cowboy” or “Antique” is in the name of your favorite magazine:
- If your tan lines are somewhere below your shoulder and above your elbow:
- If you’ve ever been grateful for fingernail polish, because it hides the dirt under your nails:
- If you’ve ever called your husband to supper, using a radio:
- If being taken out to dinner has ever included a talk by a seed corn dealer:
- If your mailbox looks like a piece of farm machinery:
- If the daily paper is always a day late:
- If you have a yard, but not a lawn:
- If you have lots of machinery and each piece is worth more than your house:
- If the leaky barn roof gets fixed, before the leaky house roof:
- If the neighbor’s house is best viewed with binoculars:
- If the directions to your house include the words, “miles,” “silos,” “last,” or “gravel road”:
- If your storage shed is a barn:
- If you measure travel in miles not minutes:
- If your farm equipment has the latest global positioning technology and you still can’t find your husband:
- If you consider “hot dish” a food group:
- If your husband says, “Can you help me for a few minutes?” and you know that might be anywhere from a few minutes to six hours:
- If you plan your vacations around farm shows:
- If grass stains are the least of your laundry problems:
- If your car’s color is two-toned and one color is gravel road brown:
- If you’ve ever grown your own wall decorations:
- If you’ve ever said, “Oh, it’s only a little mud.”:
- If your husband gave you flowers, but you had to plant the seeds yourself:
- If you’ve used the loader to reach the windows when they needed washing:
- If you’ve ever used a broom to shoo a critter:
- If dinner is at noon and lunch is before and after dinner:
- If you don’t need the recipe to make Rice Krispies bars:
- If you shovel the sidewalk, with a skidsteer loader:
- If quality time with your hubby means you’ll have a flashlight in one hand and a wrench in the other:
- If you know the difference between field corn and sweet corn:
- If you buy your husband’s “dress” socks at Campbell’s Supply:
- If you can make a meal that can be ready in six minutes and will still be ready in two hours:
- If “sharing a cab” has nothing to do with a taxi and everything to do with getting across the field:
- If your job in town is considered a farm subsidy:
That made me laugh! I could relate to way too many of them.
I agree with Suzanne! They are all so true! Do you mind if I share this on my blog?
Finding the perfect farm wife is kinda tough but thanks to your list, for sure every women will know if they are ideal to be a farm wife.Tx Land For Sale
Oh my gosh! Hilarious and way to eye-opening! Geez!