With that blog title I’m thinking I know what you are thinking. You are getting ready to enjoy a wild west cattle drive.That would be wrong cowboy! 🙂If you are a television watcher, you probably have watched the commercial a thousand times. In fact, I can almost repeat it verbatim.Roundup is a nasty chemical used to kill all weeds as well as most farm crops. If the applier of the chemical is exposed to it without, rubber gloves, mask, rubber…..
I am aware that it has been a dry spring and summer since it is approaching the middle of July and I have only mowed our lawn once! Our local paper announced on its front page this past week, “Rainfall in Wheaton was 3.46 inches below normal during June”. That kind of a headline is the reason I never ever considered farming as my life’s occupation. Farming can be likened to visiting the casino every summer with the families’ nest…..
I suppose with such a huge word in the title of this blog I should define that word so we are all on the same page. A hypochondriac is a person who is abnormally anxious about their health. I’ve been aware of my hypochondriac tendencies since I was a small child. I’m so old I lived through the polio epidemic of the 1950’s. In fact, I can still remember the fear I felt when an elementary student in our school…..