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Originally published August 3, 1998
From our side of the fence: the farm wife’s perspective “A farmer’s holiday means you have to drive.” By: Karen Emilson Like most good farm wives I silently bring my hands together and ask for good haying weather. He thinks I’m doing it for the benefit of the farm. You know, so that the summer will be less stressful and so that we’ll have plenty of feed for the winter. But in fact, I just want to take holiday. First, I ask for good weather so that haying will be finished in time. Once it appears that will happen, then I begin praying that we might actually fly to our destination. Unfortunately, the farmer wants to drive. The nature of his occupation means he has more practice at praying than me and his request offsets mine. I swing it pasty my employer who usually wants to know when I plan on being away. “The next time it rains” doesn’t narrow it down much. I raised the subject of our annual holiday just last week with Mark. “We haven’t driven through Saskatchewan for awhile,” he said. “Maybe we could do that.” I start praying some more. “Please, God,” I whisper. “Not that again.” “What’s that?” he asked. “I said, ‘they’ve got a lot of grain.” “Yeah,” he smiled. “And there’s no trees or mountains blocking all that scenery.” Oh great. Over the years I’ve discovered that farmers have rules about vacationing.