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Bezig met laden... Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barndoor Catherine Friend
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Enjoyed the book quite a bit. Story of 2 lesbians who leave the city for a sheep farm. One of the ladies would rather read and write than have anything to do with sheep and this is a dream come true for the other. Aside from some very funny bits that are hugely entertaining, the story is also very interesting when it details how this farm has changed their relationship, their individual health, their careers, etc. It certainly isn't a topic you see everyday, and that's part of what made this book enjoyable. ( ) Catherine Friend was a decently successful children's book author with two books and a handful of magazine articles published, when her longtime partner Melissa announced that she wanted to use the money she'd inherited from her namesake to buy a farm. The two women, then in their late thirties, bought a 53-acre parcel with erosion problems and no structures, built a house, planted a one-acre vineyard, and populated the remainder with two goats, a handful of laying hens, a chicken tractor full of broilers, fifty sheep, and a guard llama. Over the course of the next rocky four years Catherine and Melissa would learn the hard way what their books and classes had omitted about farming – lambing complications, tractor accidents, coyotes, livestock stubbornness, veterinary medicine overdoses, the realities of breeding, and the difficulty of taking your first homegrown animals to slaughter – all while dealing with Catherine's anxiety and Melissa's undiagnosed chemical imbalance. They have to learn what all livestock farmers have to learn: the zen-like concept that all the little lives you have under your care are transitory; that you must make their lives happy and carefree even though they may be short, and that you must fully appreciate them even though you will be responsible for their death as much as their birth. But they also have to learn how to live with each other while caring for all these other lives – how to maintain or modify their pre-farm roles without Catherine losing her writing career or Melissa working herself to death. I tore through this book in a day. It has what you really want from a farming memoir (or any memoir, really): ups and downs both poignant and hilarious featuring people with whom you can easily identify and, best of all, a happy ending (the farm and the couple are still holding up ten years later). And it didn't put me off the idea of having my own sheep someday. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Catherine Friend was happy being an author and writing instructor. She always wore clean clothes. She never had anything disagreeable stuck to the bottom of her shoes. That all changed the day she agreed to help her partner Melissa fulfill Melissa's lifelong ambition to farm in Minnesota. Catherine and Melissa embark on a rural odyssey filled with sheep, goats, chicken, llamas, and a host of other natural disasters. As it turns out, farming isn't all it's cracked up to be. Hit by a Farm is a coming-of (middle)-age story of a woman trying to close the divide between who she wants to be, and who she really is. After helping Melissa realize her dream, Catherine eventually finds a way to recapture her own in this unforgettable crash course in living offâ??and living withâ??the land Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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