I didn't know you were a farm wife. I know it must have been hard work, but I would have loved that. It's not all romantic and whatnot but there is something to be said about physical labor and exhaustion at the end of the day. And of course soup. Always soup.
I loved it!! It was just one of my many lives and it ended for financial reasons and then we built a truck stop and sold fuel for 10 years on I-90.