THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, May 6, 2010
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to the New York Island by Lorrie Baird
RURAL LIVING IS KILLING ME!
by Lorrie Baird
I have never been a
morning person. But for four days now we’ve had to get up before five o’clock in the morning. Ask us how happy we are about it. We are in Indiana farm country where most of the population wakes up and goes to work long before the roosters punch in for the day. We are in Howe, Indiana, getting the last of our warranty work done on our RV. That means we are camping overnight in the factory parking lot and have to be out of our rig before 6am. This morning we were
up at 4:30. By 5am the first of the factory work- ers had already arrived. For me, five o’clock in the morning is the middle of the night and at that ungodly hour all my body is programmed to han- dle without incident is a trip back and forth to the bathroom. It’s still pitch black out at
4:30am so the first thing I did was to walk into a door because I wanted to spare my eyes from the sheer shock of artificial lighting. At 5:45am we had the first of the workmen knocking on our door. I wanted to yell at him. Truly I did. I wanted to say “Why can’t you Indiana people go to work at nine o’clock in the morning like all the rest of the civilized people in this country?” But of course I didn’t say one word to a 7-foot farm boy who had likely already fetched the herd from the lower forty and milked them before coming to work at the factory. By two-thirty in the afternoon he will be done for the day so he can return home to work the farm until sunset. The sun sets around 8pm this time of the year in Indiana farm country. By 9pm the sidewalks are rolled up and tucked away until the next day when people will once again begin their day long before the sunshine shows up. Eating three times a day is the most ex- citing thing that happens
around here. This rural way of life is killing me. Last night we went to bed at 8:30 in order to be ambulatory by our 4:30am curtain call. I was certain we allowed ourselves plenty of time, but both of us moved like
day. Take this morning for instance. After we finished breakfast and listened to all the good ol’ boys swap war stories at the local feeding trough we trotted over to beautiful downtown LaGrange for a look-see.
This rural way of life is killing me. Last night we went to bed at 8:30 in order to be ambulatory by our 4:30am curtain call.
frozen molasses and we kept finding ourselves in the middle of a room wondering what it was that we were doing; what we were fetching; and/or what the heck it was that we were attempting to ac- complish. How the Amish people manage to harness up a two thousand pound animal and keep it driving straight down the road at 5:30 in the morning is way beyond me. As tedious as this early
morning revelry is, it’s not as if we aren’t carving some pleasure out of each
We strolled alongside
the picturesque LaGrange City Hall where the hitch- ing post and the horse and buggy parking area were far bigger than the horse- less carriage accommoda- tions. Watching horses trotting over cobblestoned streets between neat rows of houses ranging from quaint craftsman bunga- lows to rambling Victori- ans it was like stepping
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to sleep to the positively decadent hour of 7am. I can hardly wait.
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