How to Shovel Manure - book review

There are lots of lessons in life and Gwen Petersen has set out to teach us several in her book How to Shovel Manure and other Life Lessons for the Country Women. Naturally, she is a Country Woman and has learned many of these lessons straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. You'd like to think this is a put-on but with what little country knowledge that I've picked up from my in-laws and their friends, I believe it is all serious, useful information. In this book you'll learn about the four seasons and how each one has it's advantages and blessings as well as it's responsibilities and curses. You'll learn how to deal with out of control pigs and out of control hired hands. You can read about what has to be done to chickens between the henhouse and the kitchen table. But most of all you'll learn that the country life is hard but rewarding. Ms. Petersen has even included a half dozen recipes that are essential in a country woman's life, such as: chocolate cake, chokeberry syrup, sourdough pancakes, rose-hip syrup, and country biscuits.

After seeing just how valuable this book is, you may just wish to buy your own copy to place on your reading shelf next to the Farmer's Almanac or on the back of the toilet for more frequent reading.