Country living is hard
By savypat
@savypat (20216)
United States
June 2, 2012 2:56pm CST
There is a lot of work connected with country living, especially at our level of income. Most of what we need to do we must do ourselves. Today was the day we set up the water system to irrigate the fields during the hot weather. We hauled pipes that had been stored and put the pump down near the creek to draw the water for the pipes. In order to get this to work the pump must be hand primed. So Hubby got ready to hand pump the water. I yelled out to him, Did you clear the intake? Yes he said it has a screen to keep it clear. Well he pumped and he pumped, now remember he's a heart patient, so after about 5 mins I yelled again, I am standing up on the bank. about 30 feet away, I asked do you feel any water, No he said. Well I said I think we need to do something else, you shouldn't work that hard, just what every man wants to hear. Right? Just a min. he says I'm going to look at the intake valve. That set me to muttering, didn't I tell you to do this in the first place, I said to myself? Well guess what the intake valve had come loose from the rest of the pipe and was floating on the other side of the creek. Our piple was totally out of the water. Well I laughed, who wouldn't? Just couldn't help myself. He was pretty good natured about it and did get a smile on his face.
Needless to say we spent the rest of the day fixing the problem and at least go the water running where needed.
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8 responses
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
2 Jun 12
I occasionally hear someone opine that they'd love to live a peaceful life as a farmer and I laugh inwardly. My grandparents all farmed and my parents grew up on farms, I spent my summers on the farms laboring as well as playing. Those people who say that would change their minds after one day on a farm! Slopping out stalls, baling and storing hay, feeding the livestock, clearing rocks and weeds, picking and shucking corn, going out to pick your vegetables and cleaning and shelling and cooking them, etc. on to exhaustion.
Not to say farm life is awful, it's not. But it's a LOT of hard work!!
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
4 Jun 12
Hello savypat. This reminds me of the carpenter saying. "Measure twice and cut once." I don't understand why men think that we women don't know any thing. Even my grandson is already that way. When He was about 18 he was having problems with his car door panel. It was coming loose around the arm and opener handle. He was just going to cut it off. I explained to him how to fix it. But know he was so stubborn that he was really determined to cut the panel in half. I took a flat headed screw driver and went out and pried the panel back into place. So much easier than trying to cut the panel in half. Men must have a secret part of their brain that tells them a women just can't give men good advice. I hope you got the pump fixed with out more problems.
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@toyota4k (1208)
• Philippines
21 Jun 12
I have seen couples where the wives are better handymen than their husbands. Take for instance wherein my uncle was tightening a loose nut of a U-bolt under the spring plates. Facing and embracing the wheel, he could hardly fit in the box wrench to the nut so my aunt took a cardboard box, shove it under the pickup truck, and did the tightening herself.
@cotruelove (1016)
• Denver, Colorado
3 Jun 12
I'm still chuckling at the story. In my mind it serves two purposes. One it is an excellent example of what country life is and second it speaks loudly of how most men are about things their wives tell them. I know my hubby is exactly like yours when he is given a suggestion. His ego won't let him look first or check first. I just think they like to over work sometimes. Me, I like to work smart not hard.
Hope the problem is resolved and you can get on to the other things involved in country living. I've done both country and city living, and actually, I find they both require work if things are to go well. At the age I am now, I won't be moving to the country, and in fact, I'm trying to find a way to work less than I am now. Enjoy your country experience and keep on laughing!!
@toyota4k (1208)
• Philippines
5 Jun 12
It's quite a difference what country living is here in Benguet, the province where we are at. Out in the country, you don't buy your vegetables and can raise chicken and pigs in your backyard aside from the edible herbs that are abundant.
In the city you ride on bus and taxi to market to buy vegetables.
@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
3 Jun 12
It is humorous in a way, but in another way, if you let it, it could be frustrating. If you laugh about it, you turn loose of that harder part. I am glad it was something you guys can fix.
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@ARIES1973 (11944)
• Legaspi, Philippines
2 Jun 12
Hi savypat! My grandfather owns a farm and I remember that when I was younger I used to go there whenever I got some problem just to relax my mind. I dream of living in that place because it is far from the noise and pollution of the city. However because my work needs that I have to stay in the city most of the time, I can not visit our farm regularly. But I love to stay on the farm.
