Looking Back
Assink, Paul
Cleaning the udders of muddy cows in the spring...putting up with temperamental cows who liked to kick, being stampeded and nearly trampled upon by hungry hogs you were trying to feed, castrating squirming pigs who squealed at the top of their lungs...all these things were the unpleasant necessities associated with farm work in my youth. Field work was much more pleasant and, for the most part, even enjoyable. Plants were generally predictable...