On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazards)
Joyce Bupp
It was hard not to be amused.
Because I’d watched a similar
scene play out so many times be
fore here at home. Same plot.
Same actions. Same ending. Dif
ferent player.
The farmer friend playing out
this familiar scene was respond
ing to a request for a series of ac
cumulated receipts. Following a
diligent retrieval process involv
ing pockets, wallet, and various
sections of a briefcase, he turned
over a sizeable accumulation of
envelopes, bills, and small slips
representing business-related
charges, all in a few moments
time, right before our eyes.
I was impressed. Not a single
piece of dried-up haylage had
fallen out of the amassed bits and
pieces of farmer-commerce track
ing. The slips of paper all looked
clean.
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The process brought to mind
the periodic occasions when a
tousled stack of crumpled,
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turn up on the kitchen counter or
the office desk. Many of them are
yellow, a few perhaps pink,
maybe even a pale green one
once in awhile, denoting buys,
sells, deliveries, and pickups.
These tracking pieces of farm
transactions all have their own
story, should one want to pause
and ponder them. One small slip
may carry a series of numbers de
noting codes of bulls, tracing
pieces of breeding material to
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liquid plant food for the field
crops.
The bulk of the slips that accu
mulate represent a paper trail of
machinery maintenance. Collec
tions of these paper pieces gather
in comers of the shop desk, the
pickup, the bam office. Their
wrinkled, grease-stained faces tell
of replacement bearings for trac
tors or pins for hay equipment,
cutting colters for planters, har
vest machine blades, and tillage
tool knives.
And tires. Lots of tires and tire
“fixes.”
Just out of curioriosity and
because no fistfuls of paper trail
material had actually landed in
the house for awhile I ran an
inventory a bit later while pilot
ing the pickup as part of a har
vest truck shuttle mission. The
front seat was amazingly clean
and had but a single parts paper
trail sheet on the console. Then I
remembered that the pickup had
been parked for several days of
wait time for some relatively
minor tune-up work and not on
active part gathering trips.
Diving farther into the back
section gave a truer picture. Sev
eral paper trail additions in vari
ous stages of crinkly crumpled
ness were stashed amidst a hat or
two, a glo-orange hunting sweat
shirt, thermal coveralls (appar
ently in case of a sudden July
cold snap), the brush part of a
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From left, Lebanon
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bid on Thursday, July 31 as
part of the Lebanon County
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pushbroom, a tennis ball, a soft
ball, and a flashlight. Which may
or may not light; I didn’t stop to
check.
All these paper trail pieces
were dutifully collected, except
for the one that tore to shreds
when I tried to yank it from
being stuck underneath some
thing heavy buried under the
thermal coveralls. No matter. Its
billing contents will surely be in
cluded on some larger, all-en
compassing monthly accounts
statement from somewhere.
Eventually, the possibly-useful
slips were filed away and the
probably-never-necessary ones
were chucked. Only a small resid
ual on the kitchen counter told of
the paper-trail that had passed
through enroute to some sem
blance of organization.
There must be some use for a
half-dozen dehydrated dead flies.
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