Don't think I could ever do what you do, but I thoroughly enjoy reading about it. This is so far, my favorite!
(My DH used to say he knew I would never have made it across to the WEST in a covered wagon. He was so right.)
Sue

Since you were in your good jeans, why couldn't DH do what you did? Unless I am not understanding correctly, all he was doing was driving.

I agree with Sue, I like hearing about your adventures.

Ha!. My hubby also says I'd never have made it as a pioneer. I enjoy reading these stories as well. I do cook a lot like the Pioneer Woman and he appreciates me for that!

I thought he might have bought you a nice surprise but nope, oh well. I hope mom and babe are safe and sound now.

I don't even do camping. Unless there is electricity at my fingertips I'm not interested.

I was on Bfenton's wavelength, thinking he had a nice surprise in store for you. Maybe next time. :-)

Well, ladies, you might be right, after all tomorrow is mothers day. Fingers crossed.

Ellendi6161, DH would love to be able to get out of the truck and do, but he is an incomplete quadriplegic, meaning he has some degree of paralysis in all four limbs. He says that is what makes us such a good team, he is the brains, and I am the beauty. I like to equate that to he is as stubborn as a mule and I work like a horse. LOL But we do make a great team. And DH really can do most everything, he just does it differently. Crawling under a fence, however, is not one of them.

You're a wonderful pair who work well together, I thoroughly enjoyed your adventure. Happy Mother's day.

Isn't it funny how we can ignore that little voice to wind up hanging to deal with what we knew was going to happen. At least clothes wash, and I hope you're warm and dry right now. :) Thanks for sharing your story.

I too love your stories and look forward to reading them. Every day is an adventure for you PR!!!

I, like BLF thought he had a nice surprise for you. Well the day isn't over, so there's still hope. :-)

I can just see you getting the rope and gloves, and just doing his bidding, doing what he asks without question. You are a real team, and have a great relationship. Give him a hug for me please, he sounds like a great guy. And of course YOU deserve a group hug for all you do.

I, too, enjoy your reading about your adventures. Plus I never would have survived going West in a covered wagon.

Oh ladies, don't sell yourselves short. We are as strong as we need to be. No doubt in my mind each and every one of us would have made it across the country in a wagon!

Nope not me. The only lie I have ever told my husband was when we were courting. I told him that I would do the West Coast Trail which is on the west side of Vancouver Island and takes about 7 days to hike. You have to carry every thing in with you including food and there aren't even outhouses never mind showers, and if you don't check the tide tables before you set up your tent for the night you might drown. A couple of years after we were married he asked if I wanted to do the hike for our next holiday. I asked him if there was electricity and he said no. That was that. I will ski in blizzards and I will run in PNW monsoons but I won't camp without electricity.

Hey, but I gave him two sons and so he can do it if he wants. He still hasn't done it.

I now have more "barn clothes" that regular clothes. That's because I keep wearing my regular clothes down at the barn. Yesterday I thought I'd keep on a decent tank top but throw a long sleeved barn top over it. Ended up getting a big splotch of iodine on me and soaked right through both. Another top for the barn clothes pile.

So many women don't know just how capable they are. I love hands on work and have the muscles to prove it. I may not be able to do things for as long as my husband or lift the same amount of weight, but I can still stack 45 lb bales of hay, carry 55 lb feed bags on my shoulder and carry very stubborn 70 lb goats to the barn. I may be huffing and puffing, but I can still do it. ;)

Oh, I'd say you have passed the course, you just don't apply what you've learned! I'm waiting for the next story where you over ride your own common sense.

littlemonkey, I look at the stack of barn jeans and t-shirts and wonder how many I really need. Not nearly as many as I have. I've tried thinning the pile but it seems like there's enough wear left in all of them to wear them "one more year". And since I have so many, it's more like 5 more years and in those 5 years I end up with even more clothes only fit for the barn. Am I a hoarder?

I really do wish I had learned, too. I have 7 pairs of jeans. All of which became barnyard/digging in dirt worthy. Why didn't I keep ONE pair for "nice"? Nope.

Imhappy&Iknowit IOWA zone 6b Well we all have our collectibles. Yours just happens to be dirty jeans. :)

I only have a few barn jeans, but I have an excess of polar fleece pants and yoga pants for the barn. I pretty much live in them, except for when head to town then it's jeans. Wearing jeans in my barn leads to bending over, which leads to plumbers crack, which leads to a goat sticking their nose down the back of my pants.

I can totally picture that littlemonkeys!!! Too funny! LOL (love my polar fleece pants in the winter!)