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Memories, an important crop
Marilyn Arscott
Christmas is a time for
sharing and one of the
most important things we
share are holiday memo-
ries. usually, when my
family gathers at whatev-
er household is taking a
turn at dinner, we find
ourselves reliving memo-
ries of life on the farm.
It was during my
back -to -the -land period,
when, as a single parent I
decided that farm life
was for us. My two old-
est children, now parents
themselves, did not have
much input in this adven-
ture, but in retrospect, we
didn't do too badly for
city dwellers.
It started with the
arrival of a lady by the
name of Sunday. She was
. a beautiful girl with big
brown eyes, a long silky
mane and impeccable
manners. I had only
known her for a few min-
utes but immediately
knew that she was the
horse for me. Of course,
Sunday needed a place to
live; the super of our
apartment just wouldn't
understand, so the only
practical thing to do was
rent a barn.
Now finding a barn
close enough to my job
in the city wasn't easy
and when we found a
barn with a house, that
was a bonus. We would
be farmers, we would
live in the country, raise
our own vegetables; I
could ride every night
after work, and there was
all that fresh air. What
could be better for two
growing children than
fresh air and country sun-
shine?
Well, as most people
know, and I found out all
too soon, a barn with
only one horse will have
frozen water pipes in no
time. The only thing to
xdo was find more ani-
mals to keep the place
warm. The feed mill
where I bought Sunday's
groceries offered to solve
my problem by putting in
feeder pigs. I •was
thrilled; keeping pigs
would solve the heating
problem nicely and we
could grow our own
bacon!
We worked frantically
on the pen and 1 waited
anxiously for the truck
that would roll down the
laneway carrying 100
feeder pigs and our for-
tune. As 1 looked out the
window toward the road,
1 saw a battered pick up
truck turn in. Thinking
there must be some delay
with the stock truck, 1
hurried outside to see a
man dismounting from
"The cab.
"Where do you nt
em?" he asked.
"In the
replied, thinking ue must
mean the feed.
"You gonna keep em
in the shed?" he asked
with some surprise in his
voice.
Just then I heard a
snuffling noise from the
truck. "Do you have all
100 of them in this?" I
asked incredulously. It
seems you can pack a lot
of piggies into a pick up.
"Yep," he replied,
"now where do you want
em?"
1 directed him to the
door that opened into the
lovingly prepared pen.
Christmas approached
that year in a flurry of
activity. In a couple of
months, I became used to
the routine of feeding,
watering, calling the vet
and later the dead stock
truck. I was beginning to
think that pigs had some
sort of death wish.
The alarm clock rang
at six. I went out to the
,abarn before dawn,, fed
and watered, rushed back
to the house, called the
kids, got, cleaned up, and
drove to work. Evenings
were spent feeding,
cleaning and breaking up
fights, and that was
before 1 went to the barn.
My dreams of riding
after work were forgot-
ten; my concerns now
were scours, tail biting
and back fat measure-
ments.
In spite of the difficul-
ties we experienced, I
would never give up
those years. Christmas
memories of the farm
were never about lavish
gifts, but of warming a
brick on the woodstove
to take to bed; the walk
in the bush to find a tree
and leaning it into a cor-
ner to hide the worst bare
spots; going to the barn
on Christmas Eve to find
all the pigs were out,
AGAIN!
Nearing Mike and
Cindy reminisce about
their childhood on the
farm, I realize that the
most important crop we
ever raised were happy
memories we pass down
to the next generation.
from
all of
tis •0•
t0
all of
you!
„,
Bernard Campbell
Oil, Propane & Gas
Furnaces
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HEATING SERVICE
LUCKNOW
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