On being
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
Joyce Bupp
Slowly, my heart has begun
easing back out of the pit of my
stomach.
And, the quivering is disappear
ing from my knees.
The panic has resided. Life has
slid back to normal.
All this emotional commotion
unraveled my sensibilities in the
space of about IS seconds.
When I turned on my computer
system, all I got was a blank, gray :
white screen. Not the usual black
screen against which the system
displays its memory capacity in
bright, white numbers. Or the
familiar bleep which sets it
searching for the introductory
information on the system itself.
And not the direction to install a
system disk, and get busy.
Or instructions to that effect,
anyway.
Just that blank screen.
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Along Rte 23
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Panic! This electronic taskmas
ter has been my writing teammate
for so long now Tm not sure I can
compose an understandable sen
tence without its ability to erase,
change around, delete and call
back up from its memory that is
usually better than mine.
With sinking heart, I hit the
monitor button. That was fine.
Ditto for the power surge
protector.
Then I remembered that it had
been used the prior night for a
computer games session by some
one accustomed to another sys
tem. I flipped the switch to the
computer processor unit - usually
untouched - and promptly got the
normal operating mode.
The ensuing emotional relief
reminded me again.of how thor
oughly, how completely, how
utterly dependent we are on our
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Sometimes, in our case, “udder
ly” dependent.
Ten minutes into the evening
milking one day a few weeks ago,
all eight milking units simply fell
off the cows udders to which they
were attached. Just dropped,
almost simultaneously, to the rub
ber cow mats on which the “girls”
were standing.
This happens when the power
goes off for whatever reason. But
the bam lights still shone brightly
overhead. And the motors which
power the vacuum milking system
still hummed steadily.
And - of course - the Farmer
was away running equipment in
distant fields. John, our long-time
bam and herd assistant, and I
began sleuthing possible solu
tions. The expected clogged filter
or faulty pump didn’t exist. Every
thing seemed to work fine, except
some part of the automatic
mechanism to pump the milk to
the tank.
In frustration, I switched the
system which pumps the milk
from the lines to the tank onto
manual, forcing the motor to run
continuously. Voila! No more
fall-off milkers. Just so the motor
didn’t bum out.
It didn’t. Later, the Farmer
showed me the culprit, a rubber
ring in the pipeline system with a
small flapper valve that regulates
the automatic pumping of the milk
into the tank. The flapper had tom
loose, which they do just from
normal usage, and later turned up
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CRAFT-BILT
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in the wash vats.
Fortunately, a replacement was
on hand for prompt repair and a
return to normal for milking
operations.
My housekeeping hinges on a
vacuum cleaner to electrically
suck up the seemingly-tons of dirt
that we drag into the house. The
microwave is irreplaceable for
quick-prep of foods and reheating,
especially since it’s hard to know
who will show up to eat - or exact
ly when.
Our phones keep us in critical
contact with everyone from cquip-
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menl dealers to veterinarians, and
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But none of it woi ks all the lime
- nor fails periodically to cease
functioning, if from nothing else
than sheer, normal, wcar-and-tcar.
And reminds us again of our fra
gile dependency on mechanisms.
In gratitude and relief, I gave
th. computer an extra cleaning
before installing the word process
ing program.
Kind of a thank-you, pat-on
the-back of appreciation.
1 hope it understood.
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