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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Inspirational
- Subject: Character Based
- Published: 11/09/2017
“Just a Farmer”
By Herm Sherwood-Sitts
He gets up before the crack of dawn and get’s dressed in the quiet darkness; not to wake the others. As he makes his way to the pasture he is greeted by his best friend, a border collie named Troubles. He walks through the pasture, as she rounds up the cattle. Once she gets them to the barn, they are secured into their stations and fed, then the milking process begins.
After a while, the sun starts to come up and the young ones (still half asleep) start coming to the barn. They give dad a good morning hug and proceed to feed the calves, chicken’s and pig’s. The Farmer teaches the youngest daughter how to get a newborn calf to start drinking milk out of a bucket. He lets the calf suck on his fingers while guiding its head into the bucket.
When the milking and chores are done; he proceeds to wash the milking equipment. The young ones head in to get ready for school, while their mom makes breakfast.
After breakfast, the farmer let’s out the cattle and cleans the barn and spreads the manure. Plowing, bailing hay, fixing fence, and chopping corn, has made him become a heavy equipment operator (out of necessity).
While plowing the field he has a break down. He hauls the crippled plow back to the machine shed. He opens the door and there sits an old tractor in pieces; because he is waiting for the mail to deliver a head gasket. Farming has always been demanding on equipment. The farmer has to be somewhat of a mechanic in order to stay afloat. He reaches under the old tractor and drags out the welding cables, to fix the broken plow. He might not be the best welder in the world, but he makes due and gets back to plowing.
As he plows away, he is thinking ahead of about how much seed and fertilizer he is going to need after the disking is done. Like most scientists, he has to get the formula right, to get the maximum growth out of his fields.
When he comes in for lunch, he notices a cow is having a hard time giving birth. He jumps down off of the tractor and proceeds to help. There is no time to get a veterinarian. Reaching inside of her he turn’s the calf around and helps bring its front hooves out. Once he does this he has to help pull the calf out because the mother has used up so much energy. When the birth is done, he picks up the slippery new born and brings her in front of the mother. She cleans the calf and all is good.
After lunch he takes a rest and figures what bills he can pay and how much feed and seed he can afford. Being a good accountant is one of the hardest parts of being a farmer. There never seems to be enough to make ends meet.
He goes back to work fixing fence, plowing, disking, planting and harvesting. Whatever it takes! Sometimes he has to be a carpenter and fix the barn roof, or a plumber and fix the watering troughs or hot water heater. He works at it until almost dark and start’s the milking and feeding chores all over again.
The farmer has to be a teacher, a heavy equipment operator, a mechanic, a welder, scientist, veterinarian, accountant, carpenter, plumber, and most of all a hard worker.
So you see my friend, there is no such thing as “Just a farmer.”
Just a Farmer(Herm Sherwood-Sitts)
“Just a Farmer”
By Herm Sherwood-Sitts
He gets up before the crack of dawn and get’s dressed in the quiet darkness; not to wake the others. As he makes his way to the pasture he is greeted by his best friend, a border collie named Troubles. He walks through the pasture, as she rounds up the cattle. Once she gets them to the barn, they are secured into their stations and fed, then the milking process begins.
After a while, the sun starts to come up and the young ones (still half asleep) start coming to the barn. They give dad a good morning hug and proceed to feed the calves, chicken’s and pig’s. The Farmer teaches the youngest daughter how to get a newborn calf to start drinking milk out of a bucket. He lets the calf suck on his fingers while guiding its head into the bucket.
When the milking and chores are done; he proceeds to wash the milking equipment. The young ones head in to get ready for school, while their mom makes breakfast.
After breakfast, the farmer let’s out the cattle and cleans the barn and spreads the manure. Plowing, bailing hay, fixing fence, and chopping corn, has made him become a heavy equipment operator (out of necessity).
While plowing the field he has a break down. He hauls the crippled plow back to the machine shed. He opens the door and there sits an old tractor in pieces; because he is waiting for the mail to deliver a head gasket. Farming has always been demanding on equipment. The farmer has to be somewhat of a mechanic in order to stay afloat. He reaches under the old tractor and drags out the welding cables, to fix the broken plow. He might not be the best welder in the world, but he makes due and gets back to plowing.
As he plows away, he is thinking ahead of about how much seed and fertilizer he is going to need after the disking is done. Like most scientists, he has to get the formula right, to get the maximum growth out of his fields.
When he comes in for lunch, he notices a cow is having a hard time giving birth. He jumps down off of the tractor and proceeds to help. There is no time to get a veterinarian. Reaching inside of her he turn’s the calf around and helps bring its front hooves out. Once he does this he has to help pull the calf out because the mother has used up so much energy. When the birth is done, he picks up the slippery new born and brings her in front of the mother. She cleans the calf and all is good.
After lunch he takes a rest and figures what bills he can pay and how much feed and seed he can afford. Being a good accountant is one of the hardest parts of being a farmer. There never seems to be enough to make ends meet.
He goes back to work fixing fence, plowing, disking, planting and harvesting. Whatever it takes! Sometimes he has to be a carpenter and fix the barn roof, or a plumber and fix the watering troughs or hot water heater. He works at it until almost dark and start’s the milking and feeding chores all over again.
The farmer has to be a teacher, a heavy equipment operator, a mechanic, a welder, scientist, veterinarian, accountant, carpenter, plumber, and most of all a hard worker.
So you see my friend, there is no such thing as “Just a farmer.”
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