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On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazards)
Joyce Bupp
Just call us the “Swing Set.”
That covers it
“Grandma, let’s swing!” a
ittle voice will beckon, and off
ve go. The weightless motion of a
wing offers universal appeal, it’s
tilling rythmn satisfying to some
hing deep inside ourselves. If we
vant to go Freud-ish and analyze
hat, perhaps the appeal is a con
lection to the time we rocked in
he safe, weightless security of
>ur mothers’ wombs.
Whatever. The grandkids
lon’t give a hoot for analysis.
They just want to swing.
So we stampede out through
he kitchen door to the back
[)orch, where a classic bench-style
swing hangs on chains from
looks drilled long ago into the
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ceiling of our shaded porch. The
old wooden swing was a donation
from my dad, purchased second,
third, maybe fourth-hand at a
sale and spiffed up with white
and gray paint.
This swing has served four
generations of our family thus
far, spruced up occasionally with
a fresh coat of wood-prolonging
color. A lawn-lounge cushion
softens the sitting on its wooden
length, just the right size for one
adult and a couple of little folks.
We will no sooner plop down, to
gether, until at least one of them
slides back off to be the “pusher”
keeping us swingers in motion.
“Faster, faster!” is the normal
cheer encouraging the small per
son giving the old swing periodic
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shoves to maintain the motion.
“Faster” here is a relative term,
since porch swing dynamics limit
just how fast or how high one can
go, parked comfortably on the
wooden perch.
Besides, if the swing gets into
motion to a point where it might
bump the pusher. Grandma
swiftly applies the foot brake.
Visibility from the swing ex
tends in three directions around
the farm, so we generally check
out the scenery. Cats, guineas,
even a stray heifer in the meadow
may spur a discussion, as well as
birds at the feeder, flowers in
bloom, or more likely, what piece
of farm machinery is doing what
job, and where.
Porch-swinging is warm
weather entertainment, making it
almost mandatory that refresh
ments be served, specifically
those fruit-flavored, tube-en
closed freezer popsicles, which
explains why one frequently
slightly sticks to the porch floor
when walking in the vicinity of
the swing.
For higher excitement and
slightly-bigger little folks, another
classic swing hangs from a large
limb of one of the old maples in
the yard. Both the rubber tire and
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the nylon rope date back well
over two decades, when The
Farmer originally hung the tire
swing for our kids. It has swung
there since, a staple of the back
yard, swaying through midsum
mer thunderstorms and winter
blizzards, gently shoved aside by
the passing lawn mower, object of
curiousity and head nudging by
trespassing heifers.
Occasionally, someone even
swings on it.
With a little weather protec-
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tion and those periodic slather*
ings of gray and white paint, the
old porch swing should hang
around to comfort with gentle
swaying yet enother generation
well into our future years. Maybe
someday there will even be more
time to enjoy the world from its
shaded setting.
God willing, I look forward to
becoming a swinging senior in
my retirement years.
And sharing the porch swing
with great-grandchildren.
The checkoff-funded “BEEF
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