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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Dec 25 2008 : 5:07:30 PM
I'm a redneck farmgirl!
My husband got Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck book. One of the jokes in the book says you might be a redneck if you know how many bales of hay you can get in your car. Well, I can get 5 and could probably get 6 but I don't want to get hay on the ceiling! Sides and bottom is ok but not hanging from the ceiling. That's where I draw the line.
We looked to see if he said anything about how many pigs, calves, goats, sheep and poultry can fit in your car, too, but I guess he didn't think about that yet.
So how many more redneck farmgirls are out there??
LOL, Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
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| Amie C. |
Posted - Jan 08 2009 : 06:09:03 AM
My husband hauled home a whole room's worth of acoustic flooring tiles in the trunk of his '73 Coronet. It was dead of winter and he found them in a dumpster behind the local public tv station when they remodeled a broadcast studio. It took about 10 trips!
Funniest recent hauling story isn't actually about what could fit in the car, but rather about what it took to get it there...my mil was moving and needed to have the storage box for a generator removed from her property. It was chained to a tree, and when we got there (1.5 hours from home) we learned that she had forgotten to bring the key to the chain lock. She wanted us to go home and come again another day to take care of this. Well, no way were we giving up a second weekend on her silly generator box. So my husband and his cousin found an old bow saw and an ax and cut the tree down. The mil was really mad, but hey! Beggars can't be choosers, right? |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jan 07 2009 : 4:18:17 PM
what great stories!! luv them...keep them coming!....
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jan 07 2009 : 1:59:17 PM
What a great find, Debbie. Makes me want to go dumpster diving. I love finding stuff on the side of the road. I remember once seeing something shiny and long on the side of the road. We turned around and went back. It was an old timey chicken feeder. It was great. I also stop for buckets and wood. There's no telling what'll fly out of someone's truck.
Someone had a bumper sticker that said "I brake for junk". I need one.
I thought I was going to have to get more hay in my car today. I had one bale left and all this rain, the animals eat so much. So there was a little break in the rain, so I went and got my hubby's truck. But when I got to my friends barn to load up, it was a muddy mess. I had forgottem the back tires are bald. I almost got stuck. So I had to park about 150 yards away from the barn and haul one at a time til I found a wheelbarrow. Still just one at a time. Then it started raining again.
Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Jan 07 2009 : 10:37:02 AM
ok...this is so funny I can hardly stand it. He's not a farmgirl but he's married to one..me. My dear hubby found four huge oriental rugs, rolled up leaning against a dumpster and knew I'd love them. The whole back end of his truck was full of construction debris and it started raining. Well, he somehow stuffed all four of those rugs into the cab of his truck and when he pulled into the driveway, all I could see was his face sticking out of the driver side window because there wasn't any more room in the truck for his head! It makes me wanna pee everytime I relive that sight.....I sure do love the rugs!
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| LauriP |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 12:19:32 PM
>>  << Oh Ha!!
I think it was 2 years ago, Noah & I needed to get some new bags of shredded bark compost for all of our garden beds in Norfolk. So without even blinking an eye, off we go to some Home Improvement place, and start loading those big bags of bark onto the cart things they have in the stores for carrying lumber, and 'course, the bags of bark, compost, dirt, etc.
Soo..we pay for everything (it was at the start of the season, so it was all on sale) and waltz on out to the car...an' then it dawns on me. Ok -- fine, I Do have a station wagon, but how much Weight?? is this going to BE? Noah just shrugs, an' starts loading..and loading...
Finally we realize that the far end/back of the wagon is nearly dragging on the ground, so Noah reloads some of the bags onto the middle seat of the wagon. That seems to be fine.
Then we start driving off -- LOL -- I realize the car is handling like a Tank, I immediately put on the flashers, and there we are, on one of the busiest highways in the city, with the flashers goin' a mile a minute, and I'm clipping down the road...at 35 mph. The back of the wagon is nearly scrapeing the road, I'm drivin' along like there's nothing Wrong..people are honking and screaming obscenities at me...sigh..
We made it home, an' I gotta tell you, it was the most funny trip to the hardware/home improvement store Ever!!
~~Laurianne~~ |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 11:35:13 AM
I drive a Honda CRV. We bought it new, 6 years ago. It is still my new car! Haul live animals in my new car, NO way. Except baby chicks. Am I still a redneck if I only haul, chicken feed, 300 lbs, 4 big bags of potting soil, 2 5 gal cans of gasoline, the chain saw, plus all the usual stuff from a run to town, grocery, walmart, wine store, dairy store. That was yesterday, still don't have it all unloaded. A couple of weeks ago, I brought home a huge air compressor for Ole Ron's Christmas. It filled the back of the car with the back seats down. |
| crafter |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 11:19:47 AM
I love these stories!! I live in the city but want to be on the farm!! I can get more compost, bales of straw, pumpkins, apples and the kids into my van- my 17 year old daughter doesn't like to ride with me because she says I'm such a REDNECK!! And how many times I've run to the store with my apron on- so embarrasing to my teenage daughter- but I want to know what's wrong with it?
Lori
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| simplyflowers |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 09:56:11 AM
OK Misty!!! I have to ask.....what were you doing with 3 goats in the van?!?! ROFDL!!! I can see it now!!
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 06:47:09 AM
I love the clothesline all crooked. I had one at the house before this one strung all through the trees. My kids didn't want to use it because of the bird poop that got dropped now and then.
And yes, LindaEllen, spending your gift card on feed is something I'd do. My brother sent me some birthday money a few years back. When I got it I called him to thank him and tell him I was going to buy a few sheep with it. So now he kids me all the time about that. Any extra money around here goes to the animals. This year he sent me a Target card. I can still buy dog and cat food there!
Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 06:34:57 AM
Linda, only people who are Not farmgirls gave you those strange looks.. I wear mine often to town.. just forget to take it off..
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Cheryl #309
Farm girl sister
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 01:14:20 AM
I also made a new cobbler style apron that I loved so much I had to go wear it to the grocery store...I did get some strange looks though...lol
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 01:12:45 AM
What about my clothesline...it's homemade by me...strung back and forth several times uneven from the back porch to the side of the building, It's cattywampus (crooked) but I love it! Also I leave the hand decorated clothespins on it all year and the handmade pin holder on it just because I like the way they look. I am the only one in my neighborhood apartment complex who did that.
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
| LindaEllen |
Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 5:05:59 PM
Am I still a redneck if I spend my Christmas gift card on chicken feed? The giver thougth I would go out and get something pretty. Chicken feed is pretty, well those eggs the girls lay sure are : )
Linda
Farmgirl Sister #343
Locust Trail Homestead
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| katmom |
Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 4:38:57 PM
oh sure Jenn,,,,,wish I were still back in Moorpark so I could photo you in your "farmgirl mode" & post your pic on my blog! lol! I miss MRPK......I'll have to mail you some snow! lol!
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mjf#72
Sisters on the Fly#472
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| Annika |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 8:59:55 PM
4 bales and a cage full of banties in our Suberu count me in! YeeHaw !!!!!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Mud Hen Queen
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| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 8:46:30 PM
Yep I guess I qualify.. We just returned home from our Christmas trip. The whole back of our explorer was filled with three plastic tubs of presents, three duffle bags of our clothes, a snow shovel, the dogs bedding,and Dog,tire chains,a basket of books, and then we stopped at Costco for Huge package of Paper towels, TP, two boxes of canned foods, and a cooler full of refrigerated stuff. To cases of Coca cola I swear we could not tuck anything
else into the car! It took forever to unload once we got home. But We made it!
http://www.k-fallsfarmgirl.blogspot.com/
Cheryl #309
Farm girl sister
Enjoy the little things in life....someday you'll look back and realize they were the big things. |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 4:20:46 PM
Oh my goodness, this is too funny, ya'll! 4 bags of pigs in the car! I know how that is. Pigs and chickens are the worst. The smell does tend to hang on for a long time. We went up on Sand Mt. several years ago to get a few big ole white rock hens. In Jan. It was freezing cold and we drove home with the windows down! That was about the nastiest smell ever. Oh the memories!
I am borrowing my friends horse trailor in a few weeks to take the 4 hogs to the slaughterhouse. There's no way they're getting back in my car! Redneck or not, that ain't happenin'!
Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 11:03:03 AM
yes, Jeannie, I think 1/2 cord of wood int the car counts!
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 11:02:15 AM
One time we drove clear to Leon, West Virginia in a nearly new Chevy Lumina APV minivan to look at piglets for sale. We took the van so we wouldn't be pressured into buying piglets on the spot. The old farmer says, "If ya want them piglets, you gotta takem' now. Might not be here tomorrow." So we drove home nearly two hours (with four bags of smelly piglets in our van). Every Summer after that, when the temperature in that van got above 80 degrees...it would smell so bad, we could hardly stand it....we sold it in the winter.
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 10:54:50 AM
I saved up my egg money and bought a beautiful 1991 Ford Ranger Pick-up Truck....NOW I DON"T HAVE TO PUT HAY IN MY CAR!!!!!
How redneck is that? YEE-HAW!!!
You girls slay me...thanks for the laughs! - Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| shepherdgirl |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 09:57:08 AM
To answer your question Karen-- Desperate times call for Desperate Measures-- and quite a bit of inventiveness as well!!!
I carried hay bales in MY car because I either couldn't drive the truck that was available (I always missed 3rd gear in the old Ford-- which was a HUGE four--door--1960--something--BEAST and a bit dangerous for ME to drive on busy streets once I got into town with it!), or there was no truck available and I needed the hay ASAP. Plus, my husband told me it was MY problem when I said I needed hay (so much for Chivalry!).
I don't have to worry about hauling hay in my car anymore though, since we've grown our own for several years now, but oh, do I remember those days!!!!
And YES, I AM a true Redneck farmgirl too and PROUD OF IT!!!! (as Heather likes to say----) YEE-HAW!!! ~~~ Tracy
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
| kpaints |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 09:21:25 AM
Oh, you true redneck farmgals are sooooo funny! I live on a farm too but don't have any animals( my dog, Dash, is my baby). I have never been on a real farm so I am not even sure why you would carry hay in your car to begin with!? LOL I have seen the mattress being held by hand driving down the road, I thought that was 'beverly hillbillies' is that the same as redneck? When I was a kid my mom would give me very very tight perms (like an afro nearly, not intentionally) when we would go on vacation I was often car sick, so they told me to stick my head out the window and let the fresh air run down my throat. One time we stopped in a small town (remember this is in the 50's)and I got out of the car and two old duffers were sitting on the wood porch in front of the store, burst out laughing. I really don't know what was so frightful and funny! Was I a redneck for not fixing my hair? LOL
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 08:05:25 AM
Yes! Especially if you can't get the door shut and you have to tie it together with rope! That'd be really redneck then!
I remember one time driving home through Flintstone (my little town up the road) there was a little car that was going maybe 10 mph through town with a double mattress in the back seat folded up with another one on the roof! The guys were holding on to them driving down the road. There were some water co. workers on the side of the road doing some repairs and I could see one of them pointing to the car and saying "only in Flintstone!" and laughing! It really was quite a sight. That happens a lot around here. I guess this is redneck country!
Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 07:54:36 AM
Last night when our kids left to go home, we loaded their van with firewood hubby had split a month or two ago, and we got a good load in there too. Does it count to be a redneck gal, if your van can carry a half cord of wood?
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 07:28:27 AM
Kristin! I am soooo enjoying this topic!!
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
