
Farm Fresh BlogSunday, January 10 2010
An old friend visited my farm this week. She raises sheep too. We talked at great length about what actually holds a farm together. This is what we came up with:
For those of you without farms, haystring is the string that holds a bale of hay together. Like duct tape, haystring makes the world go round. And on a farm, haystring makes the fences go round!
In addition to haystring, we also use . . . .
and . . .
I'm a big fan of wire! If a board falls down and it can't be nailed back up, TIE that sucker back up!!! (and the wire doesn't stand out the way the haystring does!)
It made me feel a lot better to know that her farm was tacked together with haystring and baling wire too! That kinda goes back to the whole Romance vs Reality theme. Romance is a sunrise over a board fence. Reality is a fence held together with baling wire. And now for an update on Baby Hulk: He is continuing to thrive and is quite the chunky monkey. We like the way he is developing and are giving serious thought to keeping him as a breeding ram. In addition to putting his "best foot forward" as he interviews for the role of flock ram, Hulk has now turned to Higher Source:
Comments:
Like Lyle Lovett says - Old Black's my truck's name, she's held together by bf goodtire and baling wire..
Posted by Sue on 01/12/2010 - 12:21 PM
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