If you are eighty-four years old and walking alone down the highway, in the dark, with a storm coming, because you had to go put in a cow that got out of the pasture… you might be a ranch wife.
If your idea of the perfect Christmas present is a Buck Oldtimer pocket knife (thank you, Dear!)… you might be a ranch wife.
If you have ever grossed out some of your more sheltered friends with “processing” stories… you might be a ranch wife.
If you call your husband asking where the best firearm is to shoot the three very healthy coyotes the just ran in front of the car… you might be a ranch wife.
If, after sending your spouse to the doctor after he tried to cut his thumb off, you end up on speakerphone, using available vehicles for lighting, being walked through how to process (i.e. gut) some kind of animal… you might be a ranch wife.
If your definition of a “flash mob” is the chickens hitting the gate en masse when they hear the rattle of the feed bucket… you might be a ranch wife.
If you have ever pressed your Cusinart food processor into service to grind some feed for the old broodmare because she’s having trouble chewing… you might be a ranch wife.
If you have scrounged around in your pie tins looking for a suitable chicken feeder… you might be a ranch wife.
If you’ve ever jumped up and run outside in your nightgown to chase the deer that are eating your chard… you might be a ranch wife.
If you can predict the weather for the next three days just as well as the local meteorologist… you might be a ranch wife.
If you think watching baby pigs is just as entertaining as going to the movies… you might be a ranch wife.
If you have ever had newborn livestock in your house because it’s too cold, wet or windy outside… you might be a ranch wife.
If your refrigerator contains a big bottle of veterinary penicillin between the raw milk and the free range eggs… you might be a ranch wife.
If you sweep the floor every day and it still always looks as though a herd of very dirty elephants has just been to visit… you might be a ranch wife.
If you’ve ever rigged a temporary pen for baby turkeys out of a cardboard box, covered it with your oven baking racks and weighted it down with a few bricks to keep the cats out… you might be a ranch wife.
If you know that the best way to get fresh pitch off your hands is to use butter… you might be a ranch wife.
If everything in your ornamental garden has to be deer, steer, sheep, goat, chicken, kid, dog and cat proof (cactus is about the best option unless you live in the far north) … you might be a ranch wife.
If in addition to husbands and children you can call chickens, cows, horses and pigs to a meal… you might be a ranch wife.
If your immediate response to a rattlesnake in your garden or a mouse in your kitchen is violence rather than a shrieking retreat… you might be a ranch wife.
If your “town” clothes consist of a clean tee shirt and the least stained jeans you can find… you might be a ranch wife.
If your first reaction to a cow pooping on your front lawn is “Oh, good, now I don’t have to haul fertilizer to the flowerbed” … you might be a ranch wife.
If the integral components of your weight lifting program are small children, buckets of pig slop, firewood and bales of hay… you might be a ranch wife.
If you tell the repairman that the noise your dishwasher is making sounds “just like a fuel-starved John Deere” … you might be a ranch wife.
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