On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard:
Joyce Bupp
What a ripoff.
Some days, around here, that’s
all this farming profession seems
to be.
If you don’t believe that, come
lend me a hand tackling the
mountain of ripped-up farming
garb and gear piled up at the
sewing machine. The mending
piles up, like the junk recently
tackled in the attic, because on a
scale of jobs to do, it’s somewhere
out there at about 9 on a scale of
one to ten.
That’s because a myriad of rip
off instigators lie stealthily in
wait, threatening to attack at
every step The Farmer takes
around here. Result is that prac
tically every laundry load of
scruffy work clothes turns up
more fodder for the ripped-off
pile.
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to patch a ragged hole way down
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cut, temporarily pinned fast and
then the pantleg wiggled and
worked onto the sewing machine
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of its design, but patching pants
is still grunt work.
It’s also a painful endeavor. In
the ripoff repair process, I inevi
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least one ripped-off fingernail.
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Sure, it would be a lot easier to
just pitch the pants. But farmers,
or at least the one I mend for, go
through a lot of jeans. Plus, rips
and holes materalize often long
before the sturdy denims are even
close to being worn out. With
farm commodity prices on the
skids for months and farm milk
prices at a 25-year low, sheer eco
nomics demands that “holey
jeans” with reuse potential be
transformed back into wearables.
Contemplating the size and lo
cation of some of the rips and
tears, one wonders who the wear
er managed to come away with
out bodily injuries. At the very
least of the jeans gaps and gouges
pose great possibility for drafti
ness and even potential embar
rassment.
One large-scale, three-corner
rip turned up recently in an al
most-new pair of jeans, a
4x6-inch flap halted only by the
reinforcement of a back pocket.
This rather massive destruction
in the seat area must have come
from the grabby clutches of a
sturdy piece of steel. My imagina
tion can hear the ripping sound
as the fabric gave way to a jagged
edge of some piece of farm equip
ment or business end of a quar
ter-inch bolt.
A smattering of ragged small
holes in the back of another pair,
all located above and between the
back pockets, hint of rough metal
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Auction To Benefit
Birth Center
QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster
Co.) Birth Care and Family
Health Services wttl conduct its
11th Annual Benefit Auction on
Saturday, June 7 at The Hoff
man Building, Solanco Fair
grounds, located on route 472 in
Quarryville.
Preview with free coffee and
donuts is from 8 to 8:30 a.m.,
with the auction from 8:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Featured at the sale are a
washing machine, quilts and
wallhangings, oak and pine fur
niture, housewares, crafts, toys,
tools, lawn furniture, trampoline,
riding lawn mowers, manure
spreader, swing set, mini-shed,
run-in open shed, large summer
glider, and playhouse. Pictures of
selected items can be seen on the
at some place of frequent sitting.
Perhaps it was the back of the
driver’s seat of one of the silage
trucks, or maybe a tractor seat
frame losing its cushioning foam.
Damage on another pair look
ed all too familiar, scattered holes
of various sizes all up and down
the front of a right pant leg.
Welding fallout, no doubt, tiny
sparks landing on denim fabric
with enough heat to slightly burn
the threads. (And, occasionally,
the skin beneath.) After a couple
of launderings, brushing against
cows, handling straw bales, etc.,
the weakened fabric begins fall
ing apart into real holes. Which
require a real big patch to encom
pass the widespread area of
wear-and-tear in one fell swoop.
Whipped off the pile quickly
and back into a storage drawer
were a couple of pairs on which a
prior patch had merely come
loose, probably stitched too close
(0 the edge to resist the overtures
of a broken door hinge. A couple
of easy onesjike that are a mo
rale booster partway through this
tedious job. '
Time ran out before I even got
to the work shirts suffering from
three-comer-tear visits with pro
truding nails, zippers trashed on
otherwise-sturdy thermal sweat
shirts, or workshirt minus but
tons seemingly put on them for
one-time use. And, I was ready to
quit anyway, after finding two
pairs of jeans with those dreaded
rips in the fabric next to the zip
per seams.
Those are enough to make you
tear your hair out.
Which, I suppose, could be
considered just one more ripoff.
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Website at www.davidereed.com.
Information can be obtained by
calling the Birth Center at (717)
786-4010 or (717) 786-5506.
Food is cooked on-site and free
children’s activities will occur
throughout the day. Clowns will
perform balloon art from 9 a.m.
to noon. The day also includes
children’s barrel train, face paint
ing, and horse and wagon rides.
Birth Care is a non-profit Mid
wifery Birth and Women’s
Health Care and Birth Center.
Births are offered at the licensed
Birth Center, at home, and in
hospital.
Care at the birth center is pro
vided by licensed certified nurse
midwives who combine natural
childbirth services, advice in
herbal supplements, and tradi
tional western medical practices
into a full range of normal preg
nancy services. A physician is
available for consultation and
hospital transfers are provided
when needed.
In addition to prenatal care,
childbirth classes, labor and de
livery services, and postpartum
and newborn care, the nurse
midwives also provide normal
gynecological care. Birth Care is
one of the few locations in Lan
caster County that participates in
the federal Healthy Woman 50+
program where women who are
aged SO and older can receive
free annual pap smears and
breast exams.
Proceeds from the benefit auc
tion subsidize care for families in
need, patients without insurance,
and the birth center’s Christian
ministry to crisis pregnancies.
Two To Compete
At Franklin
County Pageant
MERCERSBURG (Franklin
Co.) Two contestants will com
pete for the Franklin County
Dairy Princess title on June 7, 7
p.m., at the Lighthouse Restau
rant, Chambersburg.
Contestants are Emily Grove,
19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff
Grove, Shippensburg; and Re
becka Brake, 19, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Brake, Mer
cersburg.
Dinner reservations must by
made by June 2. To reserve, call
the Franklin County extension
office (717) 263-9226.