You Might Be a Rancher's Wife...

• If the vet’s number is on the speed dial of your phone

• If you know how to change the flat on your car, but can’t because the spare is on a flatbed

• If your second vehicle is still a pickup

• If your husband has ever used field equipment to maintain your lawn

• If you’ve ever washed your kids or the dishes with a pressure washer

• If "picking rock" is considered a chance to get out of the house

• If "a little bit of lunch" involves 6 courses and a dessert made from scratch

• If taking lunch to the pasture is as close as you get to a picnic: 

• If your rock garden was hand-picked 

• If you can mend a pair of pants and the fence that ripped them

• If the shopping list in your purse includes the sizes of filters, tires, chains, cables, spark plugs or shotgun shells

• If you buy antiques because they match the rest of your furniture

• If your kids’ wading pool has ever doubled as a stock tank, or vice versa

• If the daily paper is always a day late

• If duct tape is always on your shopping list

• If the directions to your house includes the words, "miles," "silos," "last," or "gravel road"

• If your storage shed is a barn

• If you measure travel in miles not minutes

• If your husband says, "Can you help me for a few minutes?" and you know that might be anywhere from a few minutes to six hours

• If grass stains are the least of your laundry problems

• If your refrigerator contains medicine, livestock medicine

• If your car’s color is two-toned and one color is gravel road brown

• If you’ve entertained the romantic notion of living in an old, country farmhouse with a fireplace, but gave it up because firsthand experience tells you that it’s cold, drafty, smoky and sooty

• If you need a pair of vice grips to run a household appliance:

• If your husband gave you flowers, but you had to plant the seeds yourself:

• If you've used the loader to reach the windows when they needed washing:

• If dinner is at noon and lunch is before and after dinner:

• If you don't need the recipe to make Rice Krispy bars:

• If you shovel the sidewalk, with a skid steer loader:

• If you can find a use for that old tractor seat:

• If your job in town is considered a farm subsidy:

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