Your dog rides in your truck more than your wife.
You convince your wife that an overnight, out-of-state trip to buy a bull is a vacation.
You wear specific hats to farm sales, livestock auctions, customer appreciation suppers, and vacations.
You have ever had to wash off in the backyard with a garden hose before your wife would let you in the house.
You've never thrown away a 5-gallon bucket.
You have used baling wire to attach a license plate.
You can remember the, % of the calf crop, or weight gain of the yearlings that came off the ranch you rented 10 years ago, but cannot recall your wife's birthday.
You have fibbed to the new ranch hand about the disposition of the horse he is about to ride.
You have driven off the road while examining your neighbors cattle.
You have buried a horse and cried like a baby.
You've used the same knife to make bull calves in to steers, and peel apples.
I cannot take credit for this wonderful list, I received it in an email. I discovered I match several of these so I may be a rancher.
6 comments:
cute list, i however am not a rancher
LOL..I can relate to some of those. In case you didn't know we retired from farming 11 years ago.
I will have to add some of these to my to do list when we get the farm. lol. Thanks.
I love these! They are always so true! Thanks for making me laugh!
Well, I don't qualify, bu then I live in town and I don't have a hose outside to wash myself with and I don't peel apples. I don't even have shit kicking boots, although you didn't mention them.
This made me laugh out loud. It is all so familiar--could be my husband, but with VERY slight differences. We dither along the motorways looking at crops, criticize bent furrows,moan about weeds in the barley crop,bemoan the state of the farm buildings.
He cannot recall my birthday (Xmas day!)and gave me a Hereford cow for my Xmas one year.(a rare present)-had to be sold later when we needed the money.
His one bonnet goes everywhere.
...washes his hands and wipes off the dirt on the towel, never takes off his wellies or boots before coming in to the house etc...etc.
Been married to him for 44 years!!!!!
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