For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 12, 2012

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    cereal killer  over 12 years ago

    It’s a farm Elle, hats to break it to you but they’re going to get dirty.

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    KA7DRE Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Just don’t jump into a wagon load of hay.There could be a sharp pitchfork embedded in it…Saw this once at the Mayo Medical Museum.It was terrible !

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    NE1956  over 12 years ago

    Dirt happens. I grew up on a dairy farm. Dirty even attacked you when you weren’t looking. Thankfully attacking cow pies were few and far between. And usally badly aimed.

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    pendijk  over 12 years ago

    Dream on.

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    J Short  over 12 years ago

    That’s the kiss of death. Now they’ll get dirty for sure.

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    psychlady  over 12 years ago

    Elly has GOT to be kidding!!!!

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    masnadies  over 12 years ago

    Auto-nag. I do that with “stay safe” or “play nicely”- the safety thing is a big deal. Farms are dangerous. MIL owns one, and it’s full of animals, rusted farm equipment without safety features, etc- and they don’t even have the animals any more.

    The only dirt I really even care about (with 3 small kids) is ketchup/pizza on new clothes because I can’t get that stuff out. If my kids aren’t getting dirty with some real honest dirt regularly, I feel like I’ve failed as a parent.

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    gobblingup Premium Member over 12 years ago

    And after what Lizzie said, all I can think of is “This little piggy went to the market…”(help, I’m regressing to my toddlerhood! :-o)

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    cleokaya  over 12 years ago

    I spent all of my summers on my grandpa’s farm in Alberta. It was there that I walked into the barn and witnessed a pig giving birth. Lots of indelible memories.

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    Allan CB Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Farm + Dirt = normal childhood. Well, one year, when I was 6, the owner of the property, wanted me to carry a 10 litre barrel of apples. They weighed probably 70lbs. My womb donor went ballistic! L

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    AnonaMoaner  over 12 years ago

    Skin is easily cleaned. You can be scrubbed, dried and dirty all over again in a quarter of an hour. Clothes take longer, and involve a lot more work!

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    stuart  over 12 years ago

    Read “The Dirty Life” by Kristin Kimball – great romantic story.

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    tbritt99  over 12 years ago

    Ellie’s on auto-pilot. It just comes out naturally.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 12 years ago

    When you take 2 kids age 8 and under and put them on a farm, then add a barn filled with kittens, “piggies” and other animals (not to mention all kinds of “fun” farm equipment they’ve never seen before — at least, not in person anyhow), you’ve got dirt . . . lots and lots of dirt!!!!! Since there’s no getting around it, Elly might as well just sit back, let it all “happen” and worry about how to get all the dirt out of their clothes later on.

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    Snoopy_Fan  over 12 years ago

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    I’m a son of a 3rd generation farmer I’ve been married 10 years to a farmer’s daughter I got two boys in the county 4-H I’m a lifetime sponsor of the F.F.A. Hay! That’s what I make I make a lot of hay for a little pay But I’m proud to say I’m a God fearin’ hard workin’ combine driver Hoggin’ up the road on my p-p-p-plower Chug a lug a lugin’ 5 miles an hour On my International Harvester

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    Snoopy_Fan  over 12 years ago

    Doesn’t look like it, does it? Here… let me check…...Nope… no bra!:-)

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    LV1951  over 12 years ago

    Kids clothes should be all brown. :)

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    AnonaMoaner  over 12 years ago

    @ SUSAN NEWMAN:I didn’t bother with one when I was that age. There didn’t seem to be enough to worry about. Trouble is, when the years gang up on you, everything goes South for the winter.

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    hcr1985  over 12 years ago

    It’s a farm,Elly!!! Nothing a little Shout can’t fix :)

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    Staying on a farm and being told not to get dirty…will, that’s like saying you’re going for a swim in the ocean and being told not to get wet!

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