You Might Just Be a Farmer

If there is a large round bale of hay sitting just yards from your basketball hoop, you might just be a farmer
If your car smells like goat, and bits of hay fly around every time you open the windows, you might just be a farmer
If your favorite store is Tractor Supply, you might just be a farmer
If you wake up at 6 am (or 5 am, or 4 am) mumbling, “time to feed the cows” to the cadence of “time to make the donuts,” you might just be a farmer
If your favorite footwear is a pair of tall brown rubber boots, you might just be a farmer
If the vehicle you use to haul stuff around your 31 acres is a rusted-out 1979 Ford F250 that you paid $200 for in 2014, you might just be a farmer
If the vehicle you used to haul stuff around your 31 acres before you acquired the rusted-out 1979 Ford F250 is a 2012 Nissan Altima with a sun roof, you might just be a farmer
If your favorite project is building playground equipment for your goats and chickens, you might just be a farmer (well, actually, you might just be a little crazy)
If your best friend is the county extension officer, you might just be a farmer
If you look out over the unmowed grass in the distance and think, “bet we could get 200 hundred square bales of hay out of that field,” you might just be a farmer
If your weekend chore list includes mucking out the run-in shelter, the chicken coop, and the rabbit hutch, you might just be a farmer
If you don’t need to look up the definition of a chore to know what it means, you might just be a farmer
[if you do look up chore, pronounced “chawr” or “chohr,” it is a noun:

1. a small or odd job; routine task.

2. chores, the everyday work around a house or farm.

3. a hard or unpleasant task: solving the problem was quite a chore.

MLA. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 09 Oct. 2014. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chore>.]
If you look at the newborn kits and think, “rabbit stew in 9-11 weeks,” you might just be a farmer