84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11, 2000 On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazards) Joyce Bupp Tidy-up time is upon us. If you doubt that, just look around at all the folks raking leaves. Grass growth has slowed, weeds have gone dead or dor mant or to seed, as in the case of far too many in the flower beds and everyone is bustling around trying to tidy up all those loose ends of summer past. And, if your place is anything like ours, about the time you have one set of loose ends neatly tied corralled, a bunch more have un raveled. Loads of small bales of old grass hay sit abandoned around the equipment parking area below the house, awaiting an un loading crew to hitch them to a tractor, haul them to the bam and stack them away. This re serve supply of bedding was ac quired at a local farm sale, and needed to be promptly removed from the property. Moving them off the sold property was the haste factor in getting them load ed onto the wagons; stacking them away is farther down the tidy-up priority list. Other pieces of equip- ment keep them BEEE company, all waiting their turn behind that ultimate fall clean up chore-finishing the soybean and corn harvests and seeding the last acres of fall-planted grain. Those major tasks completed, tidy-up priorities will shuffle around to hauling out loads of bedding pack manure accumu lated through the summer and “graduating” all the heifers and calves to next-size-up pens. Frames and coverings of win dows in those various heifer fa cilities must be fastened in and closed up. Or fixed. Or, in some cases, invented. And homes found for the oversized, summer heat barn fans. Though some leaves are piling up around the yard and build ings, raking them is not a tidy-up priority here. 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