Random Musings
RANDOM MUSINGS ABOUT FARM LIFE ... and I still wouldn't trade it!
Hay rash sucks. After picking up bales from the field and stacking them in the barn, it feels like you have been rolled in barbed wire, and your arms look like a person with a skin picking problem with a whole bunch of tiny scratches and open wounds. There is NO way to avoid getting hay crumbs in your shirt, pockets, or anywhere else just going out to feed each day. Then you’ve got hay rash wherever those hay crumbs get stuck.
Screaming goats sound like they are actually yelling “MOM!” and it makes me a nervous wreck.
Always keep your cell in your pocket because you never know when you might get yourself locked in the tack room of someone’s trailer when the door slams shut and no one is home.
Be careful not to lean too close to the hotwire—EVER—but especially when you have a wrench in your pocket.
When it is windy and you are shoveling pens, be sure to stand on the upwind side of the wheelbarrow.
Best to break eggs for cooking into a small bowl before adding them to other things, as it is gross to break a partially incubated one into the dish you are making for breakfast.
Ladies, you never have long enough without wearing boots or having to walk through the dusty driveway to polish toenails and let them actually DRY. (I’m not sure why I bother since they are always covered up with boots.)
Hang the fly strips well above eye level because leaning into them with hair as long as the middle of your back is a major drag.
You know you had a good day's work (or play) when you are in the shower and as soon as the water hits you, it smells like the first rain in months when the dirt gets wet.
It amuses me that when I turn on the A/C in the car in summer, it smells just like the barn because of the horse dust that had settled on the engine.
You know it is time to move the young guinea fowl out of the brooder in the garage when they finally “get their noise” and it sounds like a vehicle with loose belts running non-stop.
Candles and cleaners smell nice…but the smells that say “home” to me are sweaty horse, a tack room's unique leather smell, coffee with a side of bacon, and fresh cut hay.
It’s nice if you bought a “seed bank”…but don’t “bank” on growing any food unless you start now. There is a HUGE learning curve to growing food, and you should be well-versed before you are actually hungry. Even city folks can grow food.
Always check your boots for spiders before putting them on, even when in the house.
And finally…When choosing paint or flooring for your home, stick with colors ranging from “dirt” to “mud.”
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