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Title:
Hit by a farm : how I learned to stop worrying and love the barn / Catherine Friend.
ISBN:
9781569242988
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Publication Information:
New York : Marlowe & Company, [2006]

©2006
Physical Description:
xiii, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Romancing the farm -- Touching Testicles -- Hooked on Romance -- Goodbye, City Life -- Baby on Our Doorstep -- Wild Hairs -- Even My Bra Was More Supportive -- A Paper Farm -- Shepherds at Last -- Wild Woolies -- Can't Fit into My Grandma's Genes -- Chicken Run -- Menage a Trois -- A Grape Disaster -- Read the Directions, Dummy -- A Shocking Story -- To Market, to Market -- Oops -- Finding Our Way in the Dark -- Chicken Sex -- At Long Last, Sheep Sex -- Hit by a farm -- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? -- Dancing with Goats in the Moonlight -- Time to Take It Off (The Wool, That Is) -- In the Bedroom -- Ready or Not, Here They Come -- The First Bad Day -- Ear Tags and Little Rubber Bands -- Another Bad Day, but Who's Counting? -- Searching for Placenta by Moonlight -- High Anxiety -- Having Fun Yet? -- Lying through My Teeth -- Serge and Sonny -- Let's Just Forget This Ever Happened -- Meeting My Meat -- Sexing Brenda -- Lambing: The Dreaded Sequel -- The Goat Queen -- Drowning in Dreams -- Coyotes and Paper Plates -- The Sixteen-inch Llama -- The Only Good Goose Is a Dead Goose -- If It's in a Book, It Must Be True -- Mermaid Dreams -- Ducks and Tattoos -- Small Losses -- Lesbians and Straight Lines -- Nature's Sentimental Journey -- The tattoo of transformation, sort of ... -- More Loss -- Shadowboxing -- I Build a Fence -- Ruby Jumps Over the Fence -- Back in the Saddle Again -- Epilogue: Still Crazy After All These Years.
Summary:
Describes how an urban bookworm and children's book author, along with her partner, set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a working farm in Minnesota, offering a heartwarming, frequently humorous take on their crash course in living off and living with the land.
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Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2005037255.html
OCLC Number:
ocm62789918
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