a farm wife
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Joyce Bnpp w
Time marches on. Yes, yes, I
know it’s a trite cliche. But it’s
true.
The mirror tells me that every
morning. Plus, there’s a middle
school kid on the premises who
makes a point of telling me that
about once an hour or everytime
he runs me down in the kitchen in
his eternal quest for food.
Just as we change and wear out
eek! another gray hair with
the mounting years, so do those
implements with which we work
and live.
We’re talking repair here, folks.
Repair as in veteran equipment,
and vital organ transplants of head
gaskets, gear systems, chopping
knives and gathering chains. To
say nothing of aging automobiles,
tired pickup trucks, cranky
washing machines and a dish
washer that occasionally has an
accident on the kitchen floor.
And typewriters. For ten years
now, the sound of a clattering
typewriter has been as much a
part of the farmstead background
noise as has the hum of the milk
cooling compressors and bawling
cattle.
My first ancient office sidekick
was acquired some 20 years ago
during my very first secretarial
job out of school. It eventually
retired to be replaced by a portable
electric model, which came under
such heavy abuse it blew a key at
least once every six months and
needed emergency surgery
invariably on a deadline day.
Its replacement was a like-new,
heavy-duty office model, which
has served faithfully many years,
with just occasional lapses into $45-
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school and college, and a prices
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I have since become slave to this
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But it also remembers, erases,
adds, moves around and dees all
sorts of hi-tech writing stuff. The
kid interrupts the endless quest for
food long enough to enter cattle
registry data on the freebie filing
program that hitchhiked in with
the other boxes. Homework
writing assignments are faced
with considerably iriore interest,
too. (And, thanks to a super
generous, disc-sharing brother-in
law, the arcade sounds of battling
alien invaders, bugs and exploding
rocketships whirr and crash late
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