Comments on Raising Country Kids: An Essay on Marital Harmony

LOL - You just reminded me of the time I helped pu...

2009-12-28T11:04:37.298-07:00

LOL - You just reminded me of the time I helped pull the tractor out of the mud . . . one foot on the gas and other on the brake of the brand new tractor! Good thing I noticed before my hubby did!!

Marvelous advice wonderfully written! I'm putting ...

2008-08-10T03:49:00.000-06:00

Marvelous advice wonderfully written! I'm putting a link to your website on my blog restricted to my ESL students, so they can learn and enjoy at the same time. Thanks!

I just found your blog this morning and thought th...

2008-07-03T12:01:00.000-06:00

I just found your blog this morning and thought this post was really funny. I'll be adding you blog to my "new and improved" blogroll too.

And entertain it did!My wise MIL gave that first p...

2008-04-28T01:18:00.000-06:00

And entertain it did!

My wise MIL gave that first piece of advice to me, and it seems to be working out well!

I could have written this but not nearly as eloque...

2008-04-10T20:24:00.000-06:00

I could have written this but not nearly as eloquently! I call the hand signals "The Signs & Wonders", he signs and I wonder what the sign meant. I started to read his mind though after thirty years.

After 15 years of marriage to a farmer, I agree 10...

2008-04-06T06:30:00.000-06:00

After 15 years of marriage to a farmer, I agree 100%. You definitely have to learn to take it all in stride and handle things with a bit of sarcasm, as you suggest. The scenes of screaming at each other when sorting cattle, and then never speaking of the incident again are so true. Especially the part about the farmer husbands expecting a meal on the table the moment the two of you walk in the

Great post! I bet every farm and ranch wife acros...

2008-04-04T08:14:00.000-06:00

Great post! I bet every farm and ranch wife across the US could relate! As for me, I'm a Wisconsin dairy farmer's daughter who grew up to marry a dairy farmer. I brought a fair amount of "talents" to the marriage (milking, sorting cattle, raking & baling hay, etc.); got suckered into - I mean learned how to - do a variety of additional jobs (chopping hay & corn silage, plowing, etc.), but

Erin, I agree with everyone else. You are so tale...

2008-04-03T10:43:00.000-06:00

Erin, I agree with everyone else. You are so talented. I can relate to most of what you wrote. We got out of raising pigs because I said it was me or the pigs or a new hog barn. I made the mistake of learning to plow. It became my job. When he asked to teach me to run the torch and the welder, I refused. lol
Robin

Erin, your link was passed onto me by my daughter ...

2008-04-02T18:15:00.000-06:00

Erin, your link was passed onto me by my daughter and I just loved it. How very, very true. Forty years of life on the land with cattle left me with lots of similar experiences. I am still laughing about my side of many of them. Sometimes my husband laughs - sometimes just a wry smile. Anyway we are still together and despite the hardships I felt fulfilled by working together - even if I didn't

Thanks for the laugh this afternoon.Jamie

2008-04-02T14:19:00.000-06:00

Thanks for the laugh this afternoon.

Jamie

I laughed so hard I nearly woke the kids...I am on...

2008-04-01T21:53:00.000-06:00

I laughed so hard I nearly woke the kids...I am only 1/2 dozen years into my marriage to a John Deere mechanic/Farmer...you have no idea how much I can relate to this 'story'. So glad I found your blog! You made my night!

Wow ! You just posted the story of my life ! How d...

2008-04-01T20:26:00.000-06:00

Wow ! You just posted the story of my life ! How did (LOL) you know ??I read this in amazement that every word you said was so very true of the life of a farmer or ranchers wife . I worked a full time job as a city mail carrier and when I got home I would change clothes, mow the yard(push mower),help jump start the tractor,drive all over trying to find hay haulers (it was baled, in the field and

Oh boy. Maybe I shouldn't have offered to learn ho...

2008-04-01T19:49:00.000-06:00

Oh boy. Maybe I shouldn't have offered to learn how to drive that darn tractor after all......

Loved this one, Erin!

Hugs........ j

ha ha - too funny - I am sending this to my mother...

2008-04-01T19:24:00.000-06:00

ha ha - too funny - I am sending this to my mother, as she knows exactly where you are coming from!

Oh too funny!

2008-04-01T09:57:00.000-06:00

Oh too funny!

Reading that essay brought such a smile to my face...

2008-04-01T03:07:00.000-06:00

Reading that essay brought such a smile to my face. Just swap the farmyard scenario with fixing the motorbike/computer/car/etc and it's just like something that would happen here any day of the week. (Well, not this week actually or anytime soon as he is away, but any week when he is home.)

That was wonderful! A real look into what I'm sure...

2008-03-31T20:59:00.000-06:00

That was wonderful! A real look into what I'm sure is your life. Thanks for the smiles!
BTW For the record, this "city girl" doesn't take real vacations either.

I'm not a farmers wife but I am a hunters wife... ...

2008-03-31T17:34:00.000-06:00

I'm not a farmers wife but I am a hunters wife... It is just as bad, I swear! And We also have been married for a dozen years this year. You really made me laugh! We also live in the country. I think I have found myself a new daily read!

I've been reading your blog now for only a short t...

2008-03-31T12:59:00.000-06:00

I've been reading your blog now for only a short time, but having grown up out in the middle of nowhere between Lewistown and Billings, it brings back so many very wonderful memories. I didn't marry a rancher, but I'm slowly but surely forcing him into it -- we helped move cows to summer pasture this last year and he was hooked. I got to be the one making hand gestures that he misinterpreted,

Oh how true your words are. I still refuse to "Le...

2008-03-31T10:04:00.000-06:00

Oh how true your words are. I still refuse to "Learn" how to pull anything large with the BIG tractor=)
Jennifer D.

Thank you so much for making me smile this morning...

2008-03-31T09:10:00.000-06:00

Thank you so much for making me smile this morning!! Between this story and the grocery shopping story, I think we have parallel lives. At least you can make me see the humor in it!

Kristie

Erin you have such a way with words and can use th...

2008-03-31T08:45:00.000-06:00

Erin you have such a way with words and can use them so that the reader sees themselves in the situation! I've been in those situations many a times with similar outcomes. I remember leaving the square baler sitting in the field with my, at that time fiance now DH, on the rack and walking back to the house. Thanks for the laugh this morning.

As a woman about to become a new bride to a homest...

2008-03-31T08:18:00.000-06:00

As a woman about to become a new bride to a homesteader/farmer, I am just soaking up your advice! I already found out the one about not necessarily volunteering everytime - once he found that I can mend his jeans so they're re-usable (what a shock!), he now expects me to do it, and actually *complains* if they aren't mended quickly enough. Married life, here I come!

That brought back some memories!!

2008-03-31T07:31:00.000-06:00

That brought back some memories!!

Thanks for giving me a good laugh this morning..Sa...

2008-03-31T06:07:00.000-06:00

Thanks for giving me a good laugh this morning..

Sandy