84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 9, 2000
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
What makes folks happy?
Good health? Money? Family
and friends? Pleasurable job?
Or is it those “warm, little fiiz
zies” that do more to keep us up
beat through our daily routines
and the challenges that get
thrown down like gauntlets
through our days of dealing with
life.
The newspaper we recycle for
heifer bedding not shredded,
but simple tossed in “as is” for
the heifers to dance and cavort
through, after friends and neigh
bors drop it off here (neatly tied
or bundled, not loose!) some
times include neat tidbits of
printed matter. I toss the papers,
by hand, around the bedding
pack; usually it’s just daily news
papers, but occasionally a gem of
printed material falls out.
Literally falls out, that is. Like
a morning last week, when a
slender, book-mark type of paper
dropped to the concrete floor of
the heifer pen walkway. I picked
it up and found a list of “happy
thoughts” which appeared to
have been an addition to a
church bulletin tucked in with
someone’s old newsprint.
The “happy thoughts” made
me smile. Included were things
like: a hot shower, giggling, find
ing a $2O bill in your coat from
last winter, making new friends,
and spending times with old
ones.
Running through
sprinklers. Hot choco
late, swinging on
swings, watching the
sunset. Lying in bed
listening to the rain
falling outside. The
beach. Getting mail.
Accidentally overhear
ing something nice
said about you. A care
package, laughing at
yourself, your first
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Playing with a new puppy.
Falling in love for the first lime.
A good conversation. No lines at
the supermarket, hot towels out
of the dryer, waking up and real
izing you still have a few hours to
sleep.
Laughing for no reason at all,
laughing at an inside joke, laugh
ing so hard your face hurts.
Chocolate milkshakes.
(1 liked the way it included so
much laughing. And chocolate.)
Mentally, I began adding some
personal “happy thoughts” to
this fairly-generic list.
The sound of farm equipment
returning from the fields after
dark. An unexpected check in
the mailbox. Stepping from' our
unheated upstairs into the
toasty-warm kitchen at 4 a.m. A
brisk walk under a starry sky on
a chilly winter evening. Seeing
how cozy the house looks from a
distance lit up at night.
Flowers. A kitten’s soft fur. A
card, note or postcard from a
or
relative.
Outdoor
Christmas
decorations
shining in
the night.
Toy trains.
An orange,
full moon peeking up from the
eastern horizon.
A real, live person answering
the phone when you contact a
business with a need or a prob
lem. Hot soup. That flash of
drop-dead red when a cardinal
visits the bird feeder. A walk
through fresh snow. The “ping”
of a canning jar sealing.
Crawling into bed between
sheets line-dried in the sunshine.
A spur-of-the-moment picnic.
Reading a book to a child. Heif
ers cavorting through the pasture
the first time they’re turned out
into new grass. The smell of
fresh-cut hay. Candlelight. An
owl hoo-hoo-hooting overhead
late at night. Having the check
book balanced.
A newborn baby calf. Finding
an item I really need on sale.
Kneeling on earthy-smelling
fresh soil to plant seeds. Sweet
corn cooked direct from the gar
den. A train whistle in the dis
tance. The first-home-grown to
mato. Looking at old family
photos.
Waterfalls. Smiles. Babies.
And, not to forget, chocolate.
We could go on and on. But, I
was especially mindful of the
bookmark’s bottom line.
Getting out of bed every morn
ing and thanking God for anoth
er beautiful day!
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