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How to shovel manure and other life lessons for the country woman* / Gwen Petersen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: St. Paul, MN : Voyageur Press, 2007.Description: 224 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0760328625 (hardbound w/jacket)
  • 9780760328620 (hardbound w/jacket)
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Contents:
Calving the heifers -- Chickens -- Pigs and pigging -- Spring farming and crop planting -- Starting the irrigation water -- Hired hands -- Planting the garden -- Spreading and harrowing -- Instant hired hand -- Branding -- Summer irrigation -- Haying -- How to keep cool while haying -- Moving the cows to summer pasture -- Veterinary care -- Garden maintenance -- Varmint control -- Summer company -- Canning, freezing, and "putting up" all that garden produce -- Summer fun -- Fall--when the year starts its downhill slide -- Roundup time and marketing the calves -- Getting in the wood for winter -- Cleaning the pig sheds (also done in spring) -- Art of opening gates -- Hunting season -- Winter and the layered look -- Feeding the critters -- Proper winter clothing -- Getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas food consumption -- Surviving the annual Christmas program at the schoolhouse -- Watching TV in winter (if you have TV) -- Waiting for spring -- Sheep and lambing -- Women work and woman activity -- Sleep -- Coffee, cookies, and daily meals -- Washing the separator -- Visitors -- Coping with the annual 4-H fair -- Yard-sale-ing : an addiction or a pleasant hobby? -- Sidekick savvy -- Ordering a custom-built country man -- Country mouse, city mouse -- Basic farm and ranch attitudes (a ranch is a ranch is a ranch is a farm is a farm is a farm-- ).
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 630.92 P484 Available 33111005413022
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

It' s not a job you want to take on without a sense of humor. Oops--it' s not a job at all. It' s an all-encompassing life, being a country woman on the ranch or farm, and with wit and equanimity like Gwen Petersen' s, it can be survived. In fact, with Petersen' s help, it can be drop-dead hilarious. A much-loved cowgirl scribe in rare form, Petersen eases us through the rigors of country living, from raising chickens to shoveling manure to cooking Rocky Mountain oysters. You' d think midwifing a calf was no laughing matter--until Gwen steps in with her expert advice. She has wise counsel for sharing the yard with a gaggle of ill-tempered geese; step-by-step instructions for harvesting pig manure; and sound advice for staying cool through haying season and coping with the chaos of Christmas on the ranch or farm.   For good measure, the book includes poems and recipes that will transport you to a country state of mind--whether you hail from the city' s busiest streets or the ranch' s quietest gravel roads. Equal parts handy how-to advice, rural humor, philosophy, and fond farm nostalgia, How to Shovel Manure and Other Life Lessons for the Country Woman "is all good.

"*Including essential Country woman recipes."

Calving the heifers -- Chickens -- Pigs and pigging -- Spring farming and crop planting -- Starting the irrigation water -- Hired hands -- Planting the garden -- Spreading and harrowing -- Instant hired hand -- Branding -- Summer irrigation -- Haying -- How to keep cool while haying -- Moving the cows to summer pasture -- Veterinary care -- Garden maintenance -- Varmint control -- Summer company -- Canning, freezing, and "putting up" all that garden produce -- Summer fun -- Fall--when the year starts its downhill slide -- Roundup time and marketing the calves -- Getting in the wood for winter -- Cleaning the pig sheds (also done in spring) -- Art of opening gates -- Hunting season -- Winter and the layered look -- Feeding the critters -- Proper winter clothing -- Getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas food consumption -- Surviving the annual Christmas program at the schoolhouse -- Watching TV in winter (if you have TV) -- Waiting for spring -- Sheep and lambing -- Women work and woman activity -- Sleep -- Coffee, cookies, and daily meals -- Washing the separator -- Visitors -- Coping with the annual 4-H fair -- Yard-sale-ing : an addiction or a pleasant hobby? -- Sidekick savvy -- Ordering a custom-built country man -- Country mouse, city mouse -- Basic farm and ranch attitudes (a ranch is a ranch is a ranch is a farm is a farm is a farm-- ).

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