Onbei a farm -And o bazar Joyce B “It’s the weekend!” says the perky voice coming from an area radio station. “No alarms! No hassles! No bosses!” continues the upbeaC excited disc jockey. “bosses” I’m directing to stalls, I I glance around the dairy bam. laugh out loud. A hundred cows are waiting to After nearly three decades at enter their stall for evening milk- this profession of farm wifery, ing on this particular late June Fri- experience tells me that Murphy’s day. From the calf nursery comes law applies more intensely to the sound of a dozen calves weekends than any other period of already impatiently bawling for time. Anything disruptive will, by their evening bottle feedings. laige probability of fate, happen Forty acres of grass hay lay dry- on the weekend, ing under the baking sun and When you can’t get repairmen, 93-degree heat The Farmer and can’t get parts, can’t get anything crew are busy baling and stacking shipped, employees are more like heavy bales in the hay mow of a ly to be off—it will break down, humid bam. Their day will stretch bust up. shut off, die, get a calf even longer than ours in the bam stuck midways through delivery, as they toil feverishly to put away break a leg, or develop a twisted the last of first-cutting grass hay. stomach and need emergency And then The Farmer will surgery. Nearly every time the return, at dusk, with several trips power has gone down in recent left around the bam to feed the years, it’s been a weekend. cows, attend to any health needs We have a standing joke around we may find during milking and the farm about the silo/feeder drag perhaps artificially inseminate a chain mechanism. If it’s broke, it cow or two before the long day must be Sunday morning. That ends. chdin has surely broken on as Tomorrow Saturday will many weekdays as it has on Sun be a repeat. Sunday, even without days, but somehow they stand out r-------CUP THIS VALUABLE COUPON) NATIONAL RBCLINER Must hsvs coupon for this spools! priest I OUR CASH PRICE $120.95 I CCXJPON soBtBB $69.00 (WHILE SUPPUES LAST) _ I ------ - CUP THIS VALUABLE COUPONI ■■"■■"-■■l I Spectacular offer! SWIVEL ROCKERS ■ I It's a rafuaal by llw largael chain atora In lha oauntry. • 1 oSM Tags are still on ths chairs. Ons color. • I Rag. Rat OUR WITH CLOSEd V; No Out-Of-State Checks Accepted Monday Thru Friday 9-9 'SJULT Sfh y- Out-Of-Sute Credit Cards Accepted Saturday 9-8 (Tanoaatar It Tor It) i For purchase with a check, bring proper 9-5 (CarUala ft Chanabereburg) , ID and a major credit card. Bondar Noon-5 (Laueaatar