Dear Santa:

I hope this letter finds you doing well, and that you will accept my wish list with a full heart.  I have been a good girl…well, except for that one time, and since I have been paying penance for quite a while already, I hope you don’t hold it against me.  Here is what I would love to have for Christmas:

1)  A tractor that will start in all kinds of weather, without having to put it on charge, or use a can of ether.

2)  How To Train Your Cows – by Eustis S. Bovine

3)  Automatic Coop Cleaner – (the deluxe model, please)

4)  A bath tub for dogs – the one where they love to get in, has the automatic soap dispenser, rinse cycle and dryer.

5)  A new barn – and if this isn’t possible, duct tape and baling twine so we can keep it together for a while longer

6)  Self-cleaning house

7)  Chickens that lay Silver Eggs (no golden egg-laying geese, please.  They make too big a mess!)

8)  A pigweed-free garden

9)  A balanced weather cycle

10)  For all my family, friends, and neighbors to have a wonderful, blessed and joyful Christmas!

Well, Santa – I know some of the things on my wish list may be more than your elves can do this close to Christmas.  However, please use this wish list as a heads-up, and maybe Bernie, your mechanically and engineeringly-minded elf can figure out how to design/build/write these items.  And if nothing else, #10 is really the only important thing on the list – so please deliver that one as soon as possible!

Your devoted and believing friend,

The Farm Wife

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The Farm Wife

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Julie Murphree is a blogger, newspaper columnist, and speaker on all things ‘Living a Simple Life on the Farm’. She is the author of \\\'The Farm Wife – Living a Simple Life on the Farm. She and her husband have 60 acres in NW Louisiana where they actively work on living as sustainable as possible.