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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · March 11, 2021 · P5

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Jerry Crownover I’ve been inconvenienced by this describe my upbringing. We had lon buckets, every trip to the
added chore, when I’ve got so a well, but we had to draw all barn. Mom, my sister and I,
many other things, like feeding the water up from beneath the would follow, toting three-gal-
and calving, that HAVE to be ground, using a rope and pul- lon buckets in each hand, down-
done. Yesterday, obviously tired ley system, that drew up a long, hill to the main barn, but uphill
of hearing my complaining, Judy slender, galvanized tube, that to the other barn and hog pen.
asked, “Aren’t you the guy who would bring up about three to When it was as cold as it has
brags about not having running four gallons each draw. It was been lately, or when there was
water until you were ten-years laborious, time-consuming (es- snow or ice on the ground, the
old? What’s the big deal?” pecially in cold weather), and we buckets were not only heavy,
She’s right. I don’t know if I still had to carry it, in buckets, but cumbersome, when trying
brag about it, but, in my adult to each of the two barns and the to maintain one’s balance. If you
life, I’ve always worn that fact hog pen, several times each day.
as a badge of honor, to proudly Dad would carry two, five-gal- continued on page 12

Among the many disasters
and catastrophes that occurred
around our farm, during the
record-setting cold spell of Feb-
ruary, the water line between
the well house and barn froze
solid. The barn and surrounding
corral is where I house my four
herd bulls for the winter and
they are supplied water by two,
heated, automatic waterers. Un-
fortunately, the heated waterers
don’t work if the water doesn’t
reach them.
For the past two weeks, I have
whined and moaned to my wife,
on a daily basis, about how much

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