On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
They show up this time of
year, every year, as regularly as
icicles, wind chill factors and the
flu.
“Lose weight fast!” pitches.
Workout classes. Exercise vid
eos. Hi-energy, low-cal drinks de
signed to replace meals, for folks
in a hurry. (Who isn’t?). Diet
plans to “melt away” weight.
Yeah, right.
Fact is, after the holiday glut
tony of cookies, cakes, pies, stuf
fing, gravy and yes, chocolate
for some of us plus confine
ment indoors by “wintry-mix
weather,” many of us have at
least a couple unwanted pounds
hanging somewhere between our
ribcage and our knees. And it’s
about as unwelcome as the tax
forms that arrived concurrently.
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and enjoy the stars twinkling in
the black sky overhead.
Now, take that dipper filled
with pre-dip sanitizing solution,
a couple of paper towels, bend at
the waist, stretch your arms in
under that udder, dip, massage,
dip again, dry those four teats
completely. Step to the cart, lift
the milker, which weighs several
pounds, hang it on the overhead
line, plug in the vacuum line and
the milk line. Bend down again,
reach in under that udder and
attach the machines. Repeat with
the next cow. As each milker fin
ishes, do all that in reverse, bend
back down and dip those teats in
a post-milking, anti-bacterial io
dine solution.
Repeat for the next four hours,
working from one end of the
bam to the other, then back for
the second group of girls. When
completed, push that load
minus the buckets of water
back the length of the alleyway,
up the slope and into the milk
house. Hose it all off, hang up
the milkers to wash, and hose
down the entire milkhouse, in
cluding milk tank.
No, no, no, you can’t go lie
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Now, pick up those two five
gallon buckets of calf milk and
carry it up the slope yes, that
ice-covered one to the calf
pens. Fill bottles of milk, distrib
ute to calves. Dump buckets of
water and refill with fresh. Bend
over at waist into feed bin, scoop
ing out calf grain, then distribute
to calves. Re-gather bottles,
bending from waist to retrieve all
those butted on the floor by eager
calves, wash and return to dry
ing-rack. Carry bales of hay and
straw from heifer barn. Bed
calves and feed hay.
No, no, no, you can’t go lie
down yet.
Clean feed troughs in heifer
pens. Scoop and distribute a
dozen several-pound scoops of
heifer feed. Scoot up ice-covered
slope to storage. Scale your way
up the side of the cliff-like stack
of stored straw bales. Throw
down a half-dozen bales of straw
and drop to pens below. Climb
into hay mow. Throw down a
Break? What break? It's
lunchtime. And won’t that “melt
away the pounds” can of drink
able meal replacement taste deli
cious before you go rest up for
the next session of Farm Fitness
and Firm-Up?
Which will begin in just a few
hours.
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Use the following guidelines to
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• Year-end stock and mutual
funds earnings.
• Canceled checks and bank
statements for at least three
years.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3,2001-B5
Keep:
alleyway below. Slide back down
ice-covered slope with a
50-pound bag of calf feed. Dump
calf feed into storage bin.
Break up straw bales and dis
tribute around pens, shaking and
scattering. Stack hay bales and
distribute a portion of them
among the troughs.
Return to dairy barn. Clean
out box stalls and bed with fresh
sawdust. Shovel out leftover feed
and give to heifers. Sweep feed
trough areas. Put down fresh si
lage. Put down fresh sawdust.
Sweep alleyways. Return cows to
barn.
expenses and charitable dona
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• Receipts for home improve
ments, even if you will not have
gains over $250,000. Tax laws
could change, plus records might
be helpful to future homebuyers.
Toss:
• Receipts for purchases after
warranties have expired.
• ATM and bank deposits re
ceipts after transactions are veri
fied on a bank statement.
• All but the most current pro
spectus for investments.
Source: “Loose Change”