you might be a farmer's wife:
If your name is taped to the side of a
cakepan: (every big pan i own)
If you call the implement dealer and he recognizes
your voice: (New Holland Ford Greenwitch, NY)
If the vet’s number is on the speed dial of your
phone:
If you know how to change the flat on your car, but
can’t because the spare is on a flatbed:
If your second vehicle is still a pickup:
If the folks in the Emergency Room have a pool going
for your kids and it involves the type of injury and when it will occur: (UergentMED, Malta, NY)
If your husband has ever used field equipment to
maintain your yard:
If you’re in the habit of buying foodstuffs in
bulk: (The only way to buy food)
If a "night out" involves the local 4-H club: (my BEST Activity)
If the word "auction" makes you tingle: (ever since my 1st one)
If you’ve ever washed your kids or the dishes with a
pressure washer: (not yet)
If "picking rock" is considered a chance to get out
of the house: (work out day's)
If "wild game" reminds you of dinner and not the
bedroom:
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: (every time this year)
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 "Lacey" or "Frilly" refers to a farm animal but
not your nightgown:
If you ever went on a date to the rodeo:
If you’ve ever been grateful for fingernail polish,
because it hides the dirt under your nails: (my dtr's new trick)
If you’ve ever called your husband to supper, using
a radio:
If you buy antiques because they match the rest of
your furniture: (my dishes)
If being taken out to dinner has ever included a
talk by a seed corn dealer: (One of the best Brother-IN- Law's ADAM)
If your driveway is longer than a stone’s
throw:
If your mailbox looks like a piece of farm
machinery: (not yet but my kids are making one)
If your kids’ wading pool has ever doubled as a
stock tank, or vice versa: (yes, and now help's chicken's lay eggs)
If the daily paper is always a day late: (what paper any more)
If you have a yard, but not a lawn:
If you have lots of machinery and each piece is
worth more than your house: ( ugg YES!)
If the leaky barn roof gets fixed, before the leaky
house roof:
If duct tape is always on your shopping list: (never ending)
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": (Just past the red Barn)
If the tractor and the combine have air conditioning
and an FM radio but your car doesn’t:
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: (every Summer)
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: (we do this all the time)
If Zaa Zaa Gabor is on your list of "Most Admired
Persons":
If grass stains are the least of your laundry
problems:
If your refrigerator contains medicine, livestock
medicine:
If your car’s color is two-toned and one color is
gravel road brown:
If you knew everyone in your high school: ( I only wish I had 500 people in my class)
If you’ve ever grown your own wall
decorations:
If you’ve entertained the romantic notion of living
in an old, country farmhouse with a fireplace, but gave it up because firsthand
experience tells you that it’s cold, drafty, smoky and sooty:
If you use newspapers to help keep the kitchen floor
clean:
If you’ve ever said, "Oh, it’s only a little
mud.": (every time it rain's)
If you need a pair of vice grips to run a household
appliance:
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: ( my dam Chicken's)
If you’ve ever discovered a batch of kittens in your
laundry basket:
If dinner is at noon and lunch is before and after
dinner:
If you don't need the recipe to make Rice Krispies
bars: (there a recipe)
If you shovel the sidewalk, with a skidsteer
loader:
If you can find a use for that old tractor
seat: ( new chair int he house)
If you've ever found mice in the underwear
drawer: ( never)
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
TSC:
If family "pets" include deer, coons, squirrels,
foxes or birds:
If you can make a meal that can be ready in six
minutes and will still be ready in two hours:(the never ending crock-pot)
If your basement is really a cellar: (love to keep veggies in it all winter long)
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: (I wish I work at State Farm at least it's a farm)
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