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:
Suzanne's CommonGround says
That made me laugh! I could relate to way too many of them.
Sara's House HD says
I agree with Suzanne! They are all so true! Do you mind if I share this on my blog?
texazranches11 says
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
Jeanette Lee says
Oh my gosh! Hilarious and way to eye-opening! Geez!