The Farmer's Wife
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My Old Barn Coat...
February 10, 2011 -
Out with the Old and in with the New…
January 6, 2011 -
Tractor Fricassee
November 30, 2010 -
I despise a floggin’ Rooster….
November 8, 2010
I have an old barn coat that is tan with an olive green flannel lining...It has a brown corduroy collar...The lining has a few minor holes but, it is butter soft and weighty and warm. The collar shows some wear and it has a stain on the sleeve where I rubbed it against a poke berry bush…it has a small tear on the bottom hem where I caught it on a barbed wire fence and it has only one large...
I received my 2011 Lang Proud Rooster Calendar today….Yippee! I know I know...I’m 6 days late.
As a very young girl, my family and I would travel to visit my Grandpa Jake and Grandma Winnie in Cassville Missouri. They lived on a farm...a real one...cows, chickens, okra, the whole thing…..It was fabulously fun...and it smelled good...especially during hay season, when my Grandpa Jake would cut hay and the sweet, nutty scent of it would fill the air…I would get so excited on these...
If you were driving down a country road in Arkansas today… and you came across a wild-haired woman wearing rubber farm boots and freshly torn, chicken poop smeared pants, angrily marching across her yard with a look of determination in her eye, holding a wire egg basket in one hand and a yellow foam Nurf Baseball bat in the other, shouting at a triumphantly crowing rooster perched high on a...