How could we forget a sense of humor? (Country conversation & feedback).COUNTRYSIDE: The question of the month last March/April was; "What wouldn't you want to homestead without?" I read the responses and shook my head in agreement so many times, I thought you would hear the rattle in Wisconsin. However, almost all the letters included one thing, but never mentioned it: A sense of humor Noun 1. sense of humor - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"sense of humour, humor, humour . The sense of humor is a major component of the sense of adventure that all (and I mean all) homesteaders have. The sense of humor exists or the homesteader home·stead n. 1. A house, especially a farmhouse, with adjoining buildings and land. 2. Law Property designated by a householder as the householder's home and protected by law from forced sale to meet debts. 3. won't. How else can one respond to the cats eating most of the new chicks or the neighbors' cows finding your tender, young garden? How about the young calf who tried to find the bottom of the five-gallon bucket and he ended up stumbling stumbling an abnormal gait in which the animal does not fully extend the limb, the plantar surface is not properly placed with respect to the ground surface at the time of impact so that the limb is likely to collapse and the animal to fall. about the barnyard unable to get the bucket off? How about my personal favorite, doing everything right-and still having the tree fall the Wrong direction and taking out the garden fence and solar-powered clothes dryer? Even the "acts of God'? that come our way--ice, hail, rain, drought, wind, etc.--have to be laughed at. Who said God doesn't have a sense of humor? He has given us the sense of humor to compensate for unmet un·met adj. Not satisfied or fulfilled: unmet demands. expectations.--Steve & Des Luhnow, El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. , KS; Prranch@characterlink.net |
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