Homesteading - A Farmhouse is

A place where the soap has to be washed before you can wash your hands.

A place where boots are lined up outside the door when it's sunny,
and lined up inside on the basement steps to be tripped over when it's raining.

A place where you can find opened mail everywhere except where you thought
you put it - especially produce checks.

A place where a salesman, the crop inspector, and the vet can find a meal if
they just happen to arrive at 11:45.

A place where mud-caked boots are "walked across the floor" on 2
newspapers to get to the telephone.

A place where yesterday's paper, the hog journal, a report on artificial
insemination, and Country Guide can be found in the same rack. You can never
find today's paper. Someone used it to walk across the floor to the telephone.

A farm house is where you can almost always smell the aroma of baking.
The 10-pound bag of flour is a way of life.

A farm house is where, during the spring, the cardboard by the back door is
changed as often as the wet socks.

A farm house is where the mending pile is as high as the laundry pile.

A farm house is where laundry day is a 12-hour siege.

A farm house is where the lights turn out late and turn on early.

A farm house is where the major decisions are made around the kitchen
table.

A farm house is the place where everyone is a weather forecaster.

A farm house is a place of calories and for some, the fight for slimness is
constant.

A farm house is where the "lady of the house" does everything from driving
a 15-ton combine to pulling out slivers.

A farm house is the last place on the farm to get repaired.   The animals
can't go without water, but people can manage for a couple of days.

A farm house is where accounts are spread out on the kitchen table in the
evenings.

A farm house is often a place of laughter.

A farm house is the embodiment of togetherness, for all things seem to start
there.

A farm house is calmness and chaos all rolled into one.

A farm house is never "off the beaten track".   It more often than not is in
the middle of the beaten track.

A farm house never has to "get back to the basics".   It never left.

The farm house is the place which really earns the title of "HOME"!

In this lavishly illustrated book, Heiney describes the
various homestead chores season by season, as well as the
work involved in hedging, fencing, blacksmithing, and blade
sharpening. Other sections of the book deal with animal
husbandry and with growing vegetables, herbs, and fruit.
He offers information on topics such as barns, stables and
sheds, tractors, horses, restoring ponds, assessing the soil,
rotating crops, plowing and more!. In the section on home
comforts, Heiney discusses such delightful subjects as
making bread, pastas, cheese, and jams, and curing bacon
and ham. He discusses quite honestly how to turn your
dream of being a homesteader into a reality.