You know you're a farm wife...

I had to post this it is from BB's Blog she is a Farm wife in TN and it so true from me growing up and to now. I love the one if your date was at a Bull Sale that has happaned several times.


If your name is taped to the side of a cake pan;
If you call the implement dealer and he recognizes your voice;
If the vet’s number is on the speed dial of your phone;
If you know how to change the flat on your car, but can’t because the spare is on a flatbed;
If your second vehicle is still a pickup;
If your husband has ever used field equipment to maintain your yard;
If you’re in the habit of buying food stuff in bulk;
If a "night out" involves the local 4-H club;
If the word "auction" makes you tingle;
If you’ve ever washed off each other with a pressure washer;
If "a little bit of lunch" involves 6 courses and a dessert made from scratch;
If taking lunch to the field is as close as you get to a picnic;
If your rock garden was hand-picked;
If you can mend a pair of pants and the fence that ripped them;
If the shopping list in your purse includes the sizes of: filters, tires, overalls, chains, belts, lights, cables, spark plugs or shotgun shells;
If "Farm", "Ranch", "Country", "Cowboy" or "Antique" is in the name of your favorite magazine;
If your tan lines are somewhere below your shoulder and above your elbow;
If you ever went on a date to the bull sales;
If you’ve ever called your husband to supper, using a radio;
If being taken out to dinner has ever included a talk by a seed corn dealer;
If your driveway is longer than a stone’s throw;
If your mailbox looks like a piece of farm machinery;
If your wading pool has ever doubled as a stock tank, or vice versa;
If the daily paper is always a day late;
If you have a yard, but not a lawn;
If you have lots of machinery and each piece is worth more than your house;
If the neighbor’s house is best viewed with binoculars;
If the directions to your house include the words, "miles," "silos," "last," or "gravel road";
If the tractor and the combine have air conditioning and an FM radio but your car doesn’t;
If your storage shed is a barn;
If you measure travel in miles not minutes;
If your farm equipment has the latest global positioning technology and you still can’t find your husband;
If you consider "hot dish" a food group;
If your husband says, "Can you help me for a few minutes?" and you know that might be anywhere from a few minutes... to six hours;
If you plan your vacations around farm shows or calving or planting or harvesting;
If grass stains are the least of your laundry problems;
If your refrigerator contains medicine....livestock medicine;
If your car’s color is two-toned and one color is gravel road brown;
If you knew everyone in your high school graduation class;
If you’ve entertained the romantic notion of living in an old, country farmhouse with a fireplace;
If you use newspapers to help keep the kitchen floor clean;
If you’ve ever said, "Oh, it’s only a little mud.";
If you need a pair of vice grips to run a household appliance;
If you've used the loader to reach the windows when they needed washing;
If you’ve ever discovered a batch of kittens in your laundry basket;
If dinner is at noon and lunch is before and after dinner;
If you shovel the sidewalk, with a skid loader;
If quality time with your hubby means you'll have a flashlight in one hand and a wrench in the other;
If you know the difference between field corn and sweet corn;
If you buy your husband's "dress" socks at Campbell's Supply;
If family "pets" include deer, coons, pheasants, squirrels, foxes or birds:
If you can make a meal that can be ready in six minutes and will still be ready in two hours;
If your basement is really a cellar;
If "sharing a cab" has nothing to do with a taxi and everything to do with getting across the field;
If your job in town is considered a farm subsidy