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	Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam Book Excerpt Part 3 by LeAnn R. Ralph Rural Route 2
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Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam
Book Excerpt
Part 3
by LeAnn R. Ralph

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I reached out with both hands and caught it up-side-down. When I turned it upright, I saw that the label had the letters T-u-r-t-l-e-W-a-x printed on it.

Turtle Wax?

œYou™re waxing the four-sixty?? I said.

Dad pulled another rag out of his back pocket. œYup."

Now that I was close to the tractor, I could smell the wax, a bitter odor that reminded me of the way peach pits smelled. Every summer, Mom would buy a couple boxes of peaches to can. Homemade canned peaches tasted much better than the canned peaches from the store.

Several used rags occupied the little shelf on the front of the stepladder where Dad or my brother or sister put paint cans when they were painting. The shelf was knobby with drips of dried paint. Most of the drips were white because all of our farm buildings were white, although light blue drips from the kitchen and pale yellow drips from the living room were mixed in with the white drips.

I looked down at the bottle again. œBut I thought this was for cars. And trucks.?

Dad shrugged. œWell, yes, I guess it is.?

œThen why are you using it on the tractor??

My big brother, Ingman, waxed his car a couple of times a year, and my sister, Loretta, waxed her car as well. But I had never seen Dad wax anything.

œI wanted to get this done before I start the field work,? he said, œto help protect the paint.?

œProtect the paint? From what??

œThe sun," he explained. "Sun' s hard on the paint. Fades it."

I had to admit that the tractor did look nice. The red parts were bright and shiny, like an apple that's been polished, and the white parts looked as clean as puffy clouds drifting across a blue summer sky.

œThe sun would fade the paint?"I asked. "Like the sun faded Mom™s curtains in the living room??

The curtains had been white with gold and brown patterns that reminded me of leaves drifting to the ground on a warm fall day. Mom said she liked the curtains because they were pretty and were made of heavy cotton and would be easy to wash. Except that after the first summer, the curtains didn't have gold and brown patterns anymore. They were mostly just white with pale brown streaks.

Mom said the streaks made her curtains look like they were dirty, so the curtains had been replaced with something Mom called "drapes" that were the color of ripe corn. Yellow was my mother's favorite color. Mom said if the sun faded her new drapes she was going to give up and leave the living room windows bare.

By the smile on Dad™s face, I could tell he clearly remembered the episode with Mom™s curtains.

œYes, kind of like that,? he replied.

He reached into his back pocket, pulled out another rag and held it up.

It was a piece of Mom™s curtains.

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LeAnn R. Ralph is a newspaper reporter in Wisconsin.

She is the editor of the Wisconsin Regional Writer (the quarterly publication of the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Assoc.) and is the author of the book: Christmas In Dairyland: (True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm) (August 2003).

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