Hit by a Farm How I Learned to Stop Worrying

Hit by a Farm is a coming-of-(middle)-age story of a woman trying to close the divide between who she wants to be and who she really is. After helping Melissa realize her dream, Catherine eventually finds a way to recapture her own in this unforgettable crash course in living off-and living with-the land. Book jacket.

Catherine Friend lives on a farm with her partner in Minnesota. A children’s book author, Friend is also at work on an adult novel.

PART 1: romancing the farm

1

(94)

Touching Testicles

3

(4)

Hooked on Romance

7

(5)

Goodbye, City Life

12

(6)

Baby on Our Doorstep

18

(5)

Wild Hairs

23

(7)

Even My Bra Was More Supportive

30

(4)

A Paper Farm

34

(8)

Shepherds at Last

42

(4)

Wild Woolies

46

(5)

Can't Fit into My Grandma's Genes

51

(3)

Chicken Run

54

(4)

Menage a Trois

58

(2)

A Grape Disaster

60

(4)

Read the Directions, Dummy

64

(4)

A Shocking Story

68

(4)

To Market, to Market

72

(4)

Oops

76

(6)

Finding Our Way in the Dark

82

(4)

Chicken Sex

86

(2)

At Long Last, Sheep Sex

88

(7)

PART 2: hit by a farm

95

(108)

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

97

(4)

Dancing with Goats in the Moonlight

101

(2)

Time to Take It Off (The Wool, That Is)

103

(5)

In the Bedroom

108

(3)

Ready or Not, Here They Come

111

(4)

The First Bad Day

115

(2)

Ear Tags and Little Rubber Bands

117

(3)

Another Bad Day, but Who's Counting?

120

(5)

Searching for Placenta by Moonlight

125

(3)

High Anxiety

128

(4)

Having Fun Yet?

132

(5)

Lying through My Teeth

137

(4)

Serge and Sonny

141

(4)

Let's Just Forget This Ever Happened

145

(3)

Meeting My Meat

148

(6)

Sexing Brenda

154

(3)

Lambing: The Dreaded Sequel

157

(4)

The Goat Queen

161

(3)

Drowning in Dreams

164

(4)

Coyotes and Paper Plates

168

(5)

The Sixteen-inch Llama

173

(4)

The Only Good Goose Is a Dead Goose

177

(4)

If It's in a Book, It Must Be True

181

(4)

Mermaid Dreams

185

(4)

Ducks and Tattoos

189

(3)

Small Losses

192

(3)

Lesbians and Straight Lines

195

(3)

Nature's Sentimental Journey

198

(5)

PART 3: the tattoo of transformation, sort of . . .

203

(36)

More Loss

205

(8)

Shadowboxing

213

(4)

I Build a Fence

217

(6)

Ruby Jumps Over the Fence

223

(5)

Back in the Saddle Again

228

(6)

Epilogue: Still Crazy After All These Years

234

(5)

Acknowledgments

239

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Hit by a Farm How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn

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