Spreading Manure

A worker listens to tunes while he spreads manure — er, fertilizer — on a field in the Rathdrum Prairie. Duane Rasmussen provided Huckleberries Online with the photo.

DFO: I never spread manure, as this young fella is doing. But I spent my Saturdays scraping out my Uncle Manuel’s dairy cow corrals from age 14-16. Then, I escaped the dairy for a job as a grocery story clerk. At that point, clerking was the easiest job I ever had. Newspapering is far easier than life on a dairy, too. I’d like to think that shoveling manure was good preparation for writing columns and editorials. ;-)