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| knewslady |
Posted - Jun 08 2007 : 2:11:01 PM
What is one of the craziest things you ever did while growing up on a farm?
We did the usual, jumping out of the hayloft, trying to ride the cow, chasing pigs and all that. But the one time I really think my dad thought I had lost my mind was when I bought a calf and brought it home in my car.
I wish you could have seen the look on Daddy's face when I drove up with this calf standing up in the back seat of my car. I realize now how lucky I am that the calf did not have to go to the bathroom while on the way home. Whew.
Kathy
Will always be a farmgirl at heart
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| Kathie |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 07:43:04 AM
This isn't a story about MYSELF as a youngster growing up.. & it isn't really antics of things we used to do.. But it's about my daughter jennifer I think i've told you all enough to know about her that she really is the funniest kid.. But truly.. NOT the get you hand dirty kinda girl..She's 26 years old now, went to school for Fashion desigh etc.. & actually does store display.. She IS THE Fashinista!
Well all through High School the boys were pretty much into the horses & cows & pigs & chickens.. & she did what she HAD to do.. but really wasn't her cup of tea.. Quite literally..
Now you all know i have my two sons.. but all through High school we also had several other kids staying with us too.. so it was nothing for me to have no less then 6 teen agers a time living under our roof.. usualy boys.. So we had the princess.. & the Rodeo Boys..
Alot of times They would stay up late & would play cards or board games in the dining room which had a big seet of French doors over looking the back yard to the little barn & pasture.. one nite they were all in there playing something & my sister was over too.. it was pretty late.. My husband & I had already gone to bed.. & we could hear them all in there laughing & joking & we'd usually fall asleep listening to them.. But they were getting loud.. then they went outside..
Well The Mama Pig had gotten out & she was not the happy girl..
She wasn't having any part or these boys yelling ,chasing ,pushing or shoving to get her bag in the barn.. not to mention all the 12 or 15 smidgy little babies that are now scattered all over & running everywhere being chased by the dogs.. It was Chaos!!
So Princess Jennifer decided that she had had enough of the rodeo.. Goes outside in her satiny PJ's & her fuzzy slippers & her cozy robe & didn't she sweet talk that Mama pig through the mud right back where she belonged!
She got Mama all happily back in her pen with her babies..
& sloshed back to the house looking like a wreck from I love Lucy!
So.. just goes to show.. Sometimes all it needs is a womans touch!
Of course she would be so totaly mortified at my repeating this story.. But then this is what makes it so great!
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 07:04:37 AM
Kathy, That's funny about the calf! It reminds of the movie "City Slickers" where the Billy Crystal character adopted the little calf 'Norman' after helping the mother in the birthing. After his trip, he brought 'Norman' home in a taxi cab. lol! |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 12:57:14 PM
We had a weeping willow in the front yard of our house (when we lived in the country) I used to love to grab huge handfuls of the willow branches and swing around. It broke a lot of branches off the tree so I always got in trouble for swinging 
Alee |
| horse |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 12:13:42 PM
Have any of you ever swung from grape vines or any other kind of vines? It's was fun when we was young but thinking of doing such now just brings chills to me.
Laura
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Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 12:11:49 PM
What have us 3 girls not done and tried.?! We use to get into a big truck tire and roll down the hill. It would take us nearly 30 minutes to bet ourselves together before we could push it back up the hill for the next ride. It's a wonder I'm still alive and my sister. I hooked one of our goats to the red wagon(the little red wagon). I made me some reins and put my sister in the wagon and told her to ride while I taught the goat to pull. Well... he took off , jerked the reins out of my hands and hauled tail down the road with my sister still sitting in the wagon. She had no way of stopping it. It's a good thing that we lived way out in the country and there was no traffic on the road. Believe me, us 3 girls can tell you some stuff that we done and it's a miracle that we lived through it and from our parents beating for doing such crazy things.haha
Laura
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| pinkroses |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 12:02:46 PM
When we were really young and lived on our small farm
It was in the winter; My brother that is next to me in age
And I went and got Mom's glass Christmas oranments.
I told my brother we were going to get in big trouble.He said that Mom wouldn't miss a few.
Well we took more than a few.]
We went up over the hill and found our perfect Christmas tree.
We decorated it with all of the pretty glass oraments.
Come Christmas Mom was looking for them
She asked Where they were.
I looked at my brother and he me. Boy, was she mad!
We got a few of the ones from the tree that wasn't broken.
I have some of them today.
I wish we hadn't had done that becuase some were really old and beautiful
My big brother was always getting me in trouble with him Ha. Pinkroses |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 07:59:28 AM
LOL Jenny! Oh my! You sound like you had fun! Do your cousins hate the country life now?
Alee |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 08 2007 : 9:52:03 PM
We used to have "rodeos" with my grandpa's matched set of Welsh ponies..their names were Satin, Velvet, Lace and Silk and they looked exactly alike. Only my brother and I could tell the older two (Satin and Velvet) apart. Satin should have been named Satan, and Velvet was a sweetie. We would trick my mean cousins into riding Satin and watch the fun. We also played alot of follow the leader through the creeek beds (which were full of wild blackberry vines and stinging nettles) barefoot..we knew the place (at my grandparents place) like the back our hands, but when the cousins came down from San Jose (city kids) we would get them to play and found the worst possible things to run them through. We would strand them out in places and get them to "snipe hunt" at night and have our little rodeos with the ponies..they were so clueless and so clean..it was just great fun to us little dirty hooligans. But they never told on us.
Jenny in Utah
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jun 08 2007 : 9:32:57 PM
oh gosh Erin..your antics just really cracked me up..things that we would have done.
we used to try and outrun the bulls in the 40 acres out back of our house. we'd run out there and play..all the while keeping an eye on the bulls and cows in the field..and then all make a mad dash for the fence when the cows came running after us..sometimes we just barely made it over with about 50 head of cattle running to see what we were all about..sheew.
but your "electric fence" story just cracked me up..I could picture the whole thing in my mind.
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Jun 08 2007 : 4:47:48 PM
oh my gosh! We did some really crazy stuff! (That what happens when you have three highly creative kids with no tv, no computer, no nearby friends to play with!) we tended to do some of the worst stuff when our friends stayed overnight in the summer.
We had some games we played outside - besides the usual tag (at night) around town and hide-n-seek in the graveyard, we played two (really stupid) games...
One we called "Hogan's Heroes," and I'll try to explain it vividly... Remember on Hogan's Heroes (the tv show) how the Germans' lights would sweep across the ground whenever any of the prisoners escaped from the prison camp? Well, we played a game similar to Red Light, Green light where we raced up and down the front pasture. Whenever a car came by you had to drop to the ground and freeze. If you got caught in headlights, you had to go back to the beginning. You could crawl across the ground commando-style but only as long as you weren't seen in the headlights. The first one to get to the end of the pasture and back without being caught won. For variations, we'd create obstacle courses you had to do without being caught.
The other game was even more stupid. We used to have an electric fence around the pasture but it was no longer connected. We used to go down to the pasture in the early evening (a group of us kids) and under the street light we'd play "Electric Shock." The premise of the game was to grab ahold of the fence whenever a car drove by and you had to wiggle and shake like you were being shocked by the fence. For some reason, we thought it was the funniest thing in the world and we got really good at faking electrocution. Not funny at all now (from an adult perspective) but they must have known we were kidding because no one ever stopped. Some slowed down but no one ever stopped. But we thought it was hilarious!
Another thing we did once was to throw a sheet over two of us pretending to be a horse (one acting as the front of the horse, one acting as the back) and with the third person leading the "horse" by a belt. We then proceeded to walk into town with the sheet over us. Of course, along the way, a cop car passed us and after a quarter mile or so, he turned around to check out what we were doing. In the meantime, we'd jumped into the bushes and the oldest girl stuffed the sheet under her shirt, like she was pregnant, and then proceeded to take her "children" up to town for ice cream. Which is exactly what we told the officer we were doing when he stopped us a few minutes later asking us if we'd seen a horse on the loose. He was SO SO CONFUSED! (I still crack up thinking about it....) I can't remember how old we were at the time but we had a baby sitter so we couldn't have been too old. Maybe 13 or so at the oldest.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 08 2007 : 2:46:23 PM
LOL Kathy! I can just imagine!
I didn't get to grow up on a farm, but for a while we did live in a subdivision in the country. I was too young to do anything really crazy, but my sisters and I would play "fort" on the neighbor's hay stacks. Now I realize how dangerous this was and am very thankful that we never got stuck or collapsed in on.
Alee |
