differences

Posted on | November 25, 2003 |

Sometimes I think about how much different my life would be if I wasn’t a ‘farm girl.’ Or if I didn’t live in the arctic. I have so many experiences that a so-called ‘city kid’ will never have. Of course, they have their share that I will never understand. Perhaps my impending move is causing my recent nostalgic tendencies (as well as the upcoming holidays).

Some things I would have missed if I had grown up somewhere else:

• Jumping off haystacks into tall drifts of snow
• Sledding down the big hill in front of Grandma’s and Grandad’s with all of my cousins, each trying to will his/her sled to go the farthest. Hopefully not accidently missing the road and careening into the brush covered dry creek bed
• docking (hehe)
• swimming in irrigation ditches during the summer
• building forts (I believe if you have never built a solid fort in your life, then you haven’t really lived)
• getting up at 4 in the morning to go check on cattle (this proved to be the most frightening in my young life as I was deathly afraid of horses)
• actually being ’snowed in’…for days at a time
• lambing
• spending hours and hours shooting baskets into the hoop attached to the old shed
• lazing through the heat in which nothing can be accomplished — all ambition is futile
• getting out of school for extreme heat and cold
• a farmer’s tan

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