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Hit by a farm : how I learned to stop worrying and love the barn / Catherine Friend.
LIBRA S521.5.M6 F75 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friend, Catherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farm life--Minnesota.
- Farm life.
- Friend, Catherine.
- Minnesota.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 240 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Marlowe & Co., [2006]
- Summary:
- 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 off-and living with-the land.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Romancing the farm 1
- Touching Testicles 3
- Hooked on Romance 7
- Goodbye, City Life 12
- Baby on Our Doorstep 18
- Wild Hairs 23
- Even My Bra Was More Supportive 30
- A Paper Farm 34
- Shepherds at Last 42
- Wild Woolies 46
- Can't Fit into My Grandma's Genes 51
- Chicken Run 54
- Menage a Trois 58
- A Grape Disaster 60
- Read the Directions, Dummy 64
- A Shocking Story 68
- To Market, to Market 72
- Oops 76
- Finding Our Way in the Dark 82
- Chicken Sex 86
- At Long Last, Sheep Sex 88
- Part 2 Hit by a farm 95
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 97
- Dancing with Goats in the Moonlight 101
- Time to Take It Off (The Wool, That Is) 103
- In the Bedroom 108
- Ready or Not, Here They Come 111
- The First Bad Day 115
- Ear Tags and Little Rubber Bands 117
- Another Bad Day, but Who's Counting? 120
- Searching for Placenta by Moonlight 125
- High Anxiety 128
- Having Fun Yet? 132
- Lying through My Teeth 137
- Serge and Sonny 141
- Let's Just Forget This Ever Happened 145
- Meeting My Meat 148
- Sexing Brenda 154
- Lambing: The Dreaded Sequel 157
- The Goat Queen 161
- Drowning in Dreams 164
- Coyotes and Paper Plates 168
- The Sixteen-inch Llama 173
- The Only Good Goose Is a Dead Goose 177
- If It's in a Book, It Must Be True 181
- Mermaid Dreams 185
- Ducks and Tattoos 189
- Small Losses 192
- Lesbians and Straight Lines 195
- Nature's Sentimental Journey 198
- Part 3 The tattoo of transformation, sort of... 203
- More Loss 205
- Shadowboxing 213
- I Build a Fence 217
- Ruby Jumps Over the Fence 223
- Back in the Saddle Again 228
- Epilogue: Still Crazy After All These Years 234.
- ISBN:
- 1569242984
- OCLC:
- 62789918
- Publisher Number:
- 9781569242988
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