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A Farm House is...
A place where the soap has to be washed before you can wash your hands.
A place where boots are lined up outside the door
when it's sunny,
and lined up inside on the basement steps to be tripped over when it's raining.
A place where you can find opened mail everywhere except where you thought you put it - especially produce checks.
A place where a salesman, the crop inspector, and the vet can find a meal if they just happen to arrive at 11:45.
A place where mud-caked boots are "walked across the floor" on 2 newspapers to get to the telephone.
A place where yesterday's paper, the hog journal, a report on artificial insemination, and Country Guide can be found in the same rack. You can never find today's paper. Someone used it to walk across the floor to the telephone.
A farm house is where you can almost always smell the aroma of baking. The 10-pound bag of flour is a way of life.
A farm house is where, during the spring, the cardboard by the back door is changed as often as the wet socks.
A farm house is where the mending pile is as high as the laundry pile.
A farm house is where laundry day is a 12-hour siege.
A farm house is where the lights turn out late and turn on early.
A farm house is where the major decisions are made around the kitchen table.
A farm house is the place where everyone is a weather forecaster.
A farm house is a place of calories and for some, the fight for slimness is constant.
A farm house is where the "lady of the house" does everything from driving a 15-ton combine to pulling out slivers.
A farm house is the last place on the farm to get repaired. The animals can't go without water, but people can manage for a couple of days.
A farm house is where accounts are spread out on the kitchen table in the evenings.
A farm house is often a place of laughter.
A farm house is the embodiment of togetherness, for all things seem to start there.
A farm house is calmness and chaos all rolled into one.
A farm house is never "off the beaten track". It more often than not is in the middle of the beaten track.
A farm house never has to "get back to the basics". It never left.
The farm house is the place which really earns the title of "HOME"!
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A detailed presentation of the 1914 pioneer classic letters of a Woman Homesteader!
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| In this lavishly illustrated book, Heiney tells readers how to turn the dream of being a home farmer into a reality. Most of the sample farms he suggests are several acres in size. |
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