Hit by a Farm How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn (Audible Audio Edition) Catherine Friend Dog Ear Audio Books
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Farms have fences. People have boundaries. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabes for a class on the basics of raising sheep. I was there with my partner Melissa, the woman I'd lived with for 12 years, because we were going to start a farm. When self-confessed "urban bookworm" Catherine Friend's partner of 12 years decides she wants to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a farm, Catherine agrees. What ensues is a crash course in both living off and with the land that ultimately allows Catherine to help fulfill Melissa's dreams while not losing sight of her own. Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine and Melissa's trials of "getting back to the land". It is also a coming-of (middle)-age story of a woman trying to cross the divide between who she is and who she wants to be, and the story of a couple who say "goodbye city life" - and learn more than they ever bargained for about love, land, and yes, sheep sex.
Hit by a Farm How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn (Audible Audio Edition) Catherine Friend Dog Ear Audio Books
As a person with a farm fantasy myself, I knew I'd like this book and even bought the sequel Sheepish at the same time as Hit By a Farm. I love this book. I'm on page 195 of 240 pages and am glad I have Sheepish. As a former horse owner and owner of a couple of sheep and a goose, I know what work is, especially since I also taught school full time. The experiences of the two women have made me smile, laugh out loud, and cry. Catherine Friend struggles to help her partner realize her dream - the farm - while trying to realize her own to be a writer. The conflicting feelings and emotions and the sheer exhaustion of running a farm make for a great read and a great story. It's also very informative regarding animal husbandry and grape growing: sheep, chickens, geese, ducks, grapes, and a llama, the women do it all.Product details
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Hit by a Farm How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn (Audible Audio Edition) Catherine Friend Dog Ear Audio Books Reviews
My wife and I are currently on a "farming kick" and find this story inspiring. What is most interesting is that it is more about the authors relationship and how that worked and they adjusted in the backdrop of them farming. That unique quality oft found in books with women authors makes it even more compelling, very well done.
Loved the book. Catherine is hilarious - an uber city girl who becomes a farmer for her partner/wife. I loved learning about what it takes to be a farmer and sheep are SO interesting! Props to her and Melissa for being sheep farmers and learning boundaries. Great memoir and inspires me to write one day!
Just to clarify - I loved the story. It is funny, and sweet, and super entertaining.
However, the version is very poorly done, considering what is charging for it. The chapters are not separated, so you cannot navigate within the book. there are a LOT of sentences that are not properly separated, so the next sentence comes right after the period, with no space. It is a shame, and distracts from the reading experience.
This is probably not going to be a book that people who are dyed in the wool city folks will be interested in. However, if you are a country person or a city person dreaming of a place in the country, you will probably enjoy this book. It is an account of two gals, one whose dream has always been to have a farm and the author who goes along halfheartedly to make her partner's dream comes true.
The author is actually a writer struggling to make a name for herself and although she doesn't say so, the money she brings in probably keeps the farming endeavor viable. The story is amusing at times and describes pretty accurately (speaking from experience) about the learning experiences of two naive women making a working farm from an acreage, raising sheep and other miscellaneous animals. It is also a story about a relationship of love and life as both partners mature and change through this farming experience.
I think it is a great book for anybody who has dreams of leaving the hustle and bustles of the urban life for a "peaceful, quiet life of the country".
I happen to own a truck farm (vegetable) but not a ranch to raise sheep. It was fun read. Even if you are not into farming or have any desire to get your hands and feet dirty or get soaked in rain. This was a very pleasant reading. Something you can wrap your hands and arm around it. You can laugh about their "failures" such as failed colored crayon...
Something you want to read on lazy Sunday afternoon with cup of soothing iced tea in summer or hot cocoa by the fireplace in winter.
Even the parts you wanted to cringe wasn't a bad cringe. It was more of Oh oh... I hope it turns out well. I can only laugh and relate about the drag line and the tractor.
I did find out about their lamas on her web site.
So even if you are city girl or forever cosmopolitan girl, you'll enjoy reading about their experience. There are things you will be able to relate.
I am surprised that readers are calling this book hilarious. Even the author herself seemed to think that her story was in the humor category. But It is better than the usual trope about city folk who move to the country and find themselves the butt of every joke. This story seemed to me almost painfully honest, both about the travails of farming, and about the difficulties of sustaining a relationship.
I liked the honesty. I liked that neither the city girls nor the country folks came across as buffoons. I have often had an idle dream of myself as a shepherd, maybe in retirement, and since learning to knit a few years ago, that dream has seemed even more appealing. But my fantasy did not involve a prolapsed sheep uterus that must be held up out of the mud for over an hour. Nor did it involve various methods of castrating baby rams. And it certainly didn't involve flystrike, with maggots embedded in the sheep's flesh! In fact, there was a lot of rather disturbing reality in this book, including the omnipresence of death on a farm. Friend quotes a fellow farmer who reminds her, Where there's livestock, there's deadstock.
There is also the honesty about the relationship struggles of two women who love each other very much, but also differ very much about their goals in life. And about the mental health issues that each partner struggles with.
So, no, not my idea of hilarious. But warm, human, honest, and touching. I liked it a lot.
Funny, funny FUNNY book! I've recommended it to a few other people and they thought it was hilarious, too.
Just about everything in this book I can relate to, as I've experienced it all with my own animals or very similar situations. The author has an easy to read and fun style of retelling her experiences of an unplanned and somewhat unwanted farm life. The stories make you laugh, make you cry , make you go awwww, and have you crying with laughter. (My [non-farming] friend read the book in one day, because she enjoyed it so much and didn't want to put it down.)
Fellow sheep farmers will enjoy the book because they can relate and will recall their own experiences (close encounters of the electric fence type, "The sheep are out!" situations, the annual lambing seasons, etc.) and non-farming city folks will enjoy it as they get a glimpse into the magical world of farm life.
As a person with a farm fantasy myself, I knew I'd like this book and even bought the sequel Sheepish at the same time as Hit By a Farm. I love this book. I'm on page 195 of 240 pages and am glad I have Sheepish. As a former horse owner and owner of a couple of sheep and a goose, I know what work is, especially since I also taught school full time. The experiences of the two women have made me smile, laugh out loud, and cry. Catherine Friend struggles to help her partner realize her dream - the farm - while trying to realize her own to be a writer. The conflicting feelings and emotions and the sheer exhaustion of running a farm make for a great read and a great story. It's also very informative regarding animal husbandry and grape growing sheep, chickens, geese, ducks, grapes, and a llama, the women do it all.
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